400 chickens STOLEN!

[PineBurrowPeeps]

This is simply shocking.

The really sad part to me is that even if you go through the trouble of padlocking your coops, what's to stop them from using wire cutters and going through the run wire, whether it's hardware cloth or whathaveyou. In my coop, a determined theif could cut a decent hole out of the run material, enter the run, and then if they're on the smallish side, even completely go through the chicken door leading into my coop.
My kids do it all the time. We have big chicken doors, more like doggie size doors.

hmmmm...


I do also wonder if something isn't fishy here with the place she got them from. It only makes sense that a company with the equipment to transport 400 hens to her can also take them away.

 

[kyeschicks]

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I had the same thought - that's a lot of chickens.

yeah me too, 400 chickens is alot! i feel sorry

 

[joebryant]

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YEP! I've thought of that too, and that's partly the reason that I keep the key right beside the lock. If someone's determined to steal the chickens, it's for sure that a little lock won't stop them. My locks are only to baffle/outmaneuver the four-legged predators.

 

[stephys_fluffybutts]

OMG! People are completely crazy these days.
Sadly I have had instances where people were trying to steal our chickens.
We finally had to put a bunch of cameras sorrounding our property.
We have two areas where they are housed, one is right by my bedroom and the other is extremely close to the road.

Are latest run in was an older person.
My sister took the car into town, I am guessing he didnt think we were home and tried to have a look at our birds in the building in the front.

We were getting ready for a show and we just happened to build new pens to get them ready in. I was dumb enough to post that on a blog. Well it broaght in an unwelcome visitor.

We were able to talk to him and we told him about the cameras that were scopeing our property. We even showed him the birds....Told him if anything is missing we will know about it hahaha and the cops are on stand by LOL

Havnt seen him since

I am a very light sleeper as it is. Every noise those birds make I even know about....

 

[mountaintopchicken]

She is devastated and her business is ruined as she cannot afford to re-buy.

Is there any way that neighbors, friends and family could take up a collection for her? Or is there a local poultry society that could get involved?

I get so sad when I here about these things, because I can picture myself in her position so easily. I know exactly how devastated she must be.​

 

[greyfields]

I recall being in Herefordshire and commercial pickers were taking all the holly branches off the farm we were staying at. He said basically there is nothign he can do about it, since he would likely get brained for comfronting them about it... and of course, he would go to hell and prison if he dared walk out there with the shotgun. He saw the same people selling it at the farmer's market. :\\

 

[BethinIrving]

That's exactly why I have geese -- to be the onsite alarm system.

Nothing gets by my geese.

Sometimes that's good, sometimes bad. If they don't know you, they won't shut up. Worse, they've bonded to me and tend to see any and everything as some sort of threat to me.

 

[Chicken Salad]

Poor woman. Poor chickens.

Back in the spring here in Maryland, we had a rash of cattle rustling. The thieves had the cahones to drive right up and to make off with 3 DOZEN cattle.

As times get tougher it'll only get worse, I think.

 

[English Chick]

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Had the same sort of thing when we where ifarming in Wrexham, people came and took the field mushrooms and in the spring hundreds of daffodils!!!

 

[English Chick]

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think you could be right there Chicken Salad....got me worrying about our cattle and sheep.