Can't emphasize enough...Lock them in at dusk, don't let them out until mid morning!

[ochochicas]

After watching that video, I wanted to go over and shoot it for you!

 

[RPAtkins12]

I am beginning to see your point...I lost another duck yesterday morning at 10 AM. I let them out of the pen and went inside to answer the phone, came out 20 minutes later when my Indian Runner female sounded an alarm and my adult male Khaki Campbell was missing. All I found were scattered feathers and my other ducks back in the duck house. I found a picture of the fox on the camera lurking and yep, taking my duck. Graphic, precise and ugly. I am keeping all my ducks penned in, day and night, for now.

 

[RPAtkins12]

I wish you had! It returned and took my adult male at 10 AM yesterday.

 

[RPAtkins12]

I figured it out. The top...poultry netting which then collapsed the side fencing with the weight. I have replaced the poultry netting with fencing...and no more free range for now!

 

[bigoledude]

KILL THE FOX!!!

 

[ochochicas]

Mine are getting a run and will be locked in when the humans are not home. We don't have foxes, but the coyotes around here are relentless. The chickens are not even safe in the middle of the day. Yesterday at 11:00 in the morning there was one trying to figure out how to get to the barn without getting shot. Last week we lost our best hen after a coyote came up the neighbor's diveway and took her out of the front yard. I was really hoping to be able to free range them, but clearly that isn't going to work out.