Hi my name is Louie, and I started learning how to raise chickens at the beginning of the pandemic. I like in an unincorporated part of Indiana and have a little land and figured that if things really went south, that I could live off of chicken meat and eggs. I turned my shed into the coop, and...
We have 4 silkie hens and because of the large hawk population where we are, we don't free range them so they stay in the large coop/run that we have them. We've done everything to protect them against predators, including burying hardware cloth under the whole thing to prevent digging...
Imagine my shock as I go outside and discover my flock, who is on strict lockdown, walking around my lawn and helping themselves to mulberries.
I panic — there is a pack of coyotes living behind my house, hence the strict lockdown.
I race to the chicken run and find the gate still locked, no...