ALABAMA!!

[chickadoodles]

Thanks you everyone! Still upset me when I go outside and not be greeted by my chickens.

I'm going to take a little break from chickens until I figure out what killed them. My guess is raccoon or possibly a fox.

Might try baiting a trap and see what turns up.....

 

[chickensval]

Is there anyone out there who can help me with ideas on a goose coop & run?

 

[chirpingcricket]

 my bet would be coon...

it's hard to make a coop completely coon proof IF they really want to get in. Hardware cloth and welded wire are your friends.

sorry for your loss....

Ditto, lots of work but worth it, 'cause the coons will be back.
They toss around concrete blocks, open locks, dig under, climb over, rip/tear/pull over doors, walls window etc. They reach through and grab and tear, favorite way is they travel in packs, run chickens in a corner and reach in or under the pen to attack. Good luck, don't give up!

Game camera and shotgun prove helpful, or a live animal trap. (PS...I can't stand coons and hawks) Chirp

 

[Tomtommom]

I've never seen a raccoon in my neighborhood.. I hope to never see one either. I have seen hawks, but they won't bother us, too much tree coverage.

My ex-husband's grandmother had raccoons in her backyard that would come running whenever she fed the birds/squirrels. They're really cute critters, until you have chickens or other small animals

 

[Wisher1000]

Yes, I loved the pics my DH would get on the game camera of the coons. I even entertained building coon tree house sleeping houses and feeders in another part of the woods so that they would leave the deer feeders alone.

Then, I got chickens................

 

[kaybee123]

Raccoon are even in residential areas. I know as I live in a residential area and have never seen raccoons in my backyard until I started with my chicks/chickens.

 

[Wisher1000]

I was sitting at my computer one night, just like I am now, and I caught some movement out of the corner of my eye. I looked toward the french door that goes out onto our back stoop, and there was a little masked face looking at me. It just watched me surfing the web for a few minutes, stood and put its hands on the glass, then walked away. I thought, "That was strange."

 

[troy1]

Wisher, I was watching TV a month ago and looked to the back door. There stood a buck deer with his nose pressed against the glass pane, looking in. He had already crossed the enclosed back porch to get there....gotta love living in the outback.....

troy

 

[kaybee123]

I have had a raccoon at my sliding door one night but even stranger I have a baby bunny and a large one that come and eat chicken pellets or cracked corn right at the sliding glass door with the chickens eating too. That wild baby bunny has let me pet it before in the back yard. The chickens don't think anything of it!

 

[old farmer]

Anybody have a chicken tractor for sale?
Im located in north alabama
thanks you