All 5 chickens dead or missing

[cmom]

 

[ChickenCanoe]

If you have an old folks home nearby the Sasquatchi will probably stay over there... Sasquatchi are drawn to jello and bingo... I learned that from five minutes of internet reading, so that I could become a Bigfoot expert

 

[ChickenCanoe]

I wasn’t shooting to kill. He was only after eggs. He was bringing his own collection basket with him. I was aiming for the hand but only got a finger, hence the sparse blood trail. On the positive side he did drop the basket so I got my eggs back.

Your description of him carrying his own basket, for some reason reminded me of the Yogi bear and Boo Boo cartoons about stealing 'picanic' [sic] baskets. (picnic baskets)

 

[ChickenCanoe]

Yeah, I was just reading a "use urine to scare away..." conversation and there were about 4 things in 3 sentences that demonstrated a lack of understanding and almost certainly a lack of actual experience with doing what was being suggested... not to mention a tangential remark that could be interpreted as dangerous...

I guess if people would just ask themselves, "Is this something I've actually done, and know that works? Or is this something I've only read about?" ....that might help them know when to post and when not to post... but hey that's not what the internet is for is it?

A friend of mine who used to hunt and trap a lot told me about urine scaring away predators and to warn me about keeping my scent away from my traps.
I told him that was nonsense.
It may be true in the wilderness but in the burbs, predators could care less about my scent - whether that be from my presence or urine.

 

[brendave]

Trail cam shows nothing so far. I'm going to electrify the outer fence of the run/garden. (I'm planning a double fence to discourage deer.) The severely wounded one is making a recovery; still limping heavily but wounds are scabbed over with no sign of infection. We free range now only of we can sit outside with them.

 

[cmom]

I have electric wires around all of my coops and pens and if anything touches them they will make their hearts skip a few beats and the predators don't try it again. I see the predators roaming around on my game cameras. I put the tarps up because this side of these coops are open. Before I put the netting over the top of the pens, an owl got into the end one and killed all but 3 birds.

A coyote.

Here is the owl.

 

[Kris5902]

Ok, notifications were not happening for me on this, and I missed a bunch of this post. I was a little terrified there for a moment at some of the new comments and had to go back a ways and catch up...

With the comments about a retirement home behind coops, appropriate caliber size for the target, and the comments about “wounding him” and he “was bringing his own egg basket” for a minute there I was worried you all had taken to shooting at some poor seniors that are wandering out of the retirement home and stealing eggs! A little excessive a reaction IMO, and I’m very pro “permanent solution to a predator problem!” Skim read the thread backwards for a bit, like you’re trying to find the place you left off reading... it’s kinda scary!

 

[ChickenCanoe]

Poor vulnerable seniors.