Chickens are gone!

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I am curious to see this door and how it locks
It could mean you had a human interfering with your chickens..
Or the wind blew it open
Also Some types of locking mechanisms a racoon can manipulate.
Sorry you lost your birds.

 

[Ascholten]

Im sorry to hear that, please let us know what you found out. If the animals were completely GONE? without any blood around? interesting, since anything attacking them, feathers everywhere for sure, but generally blood too from the fight. Sounds like it's time to put up a 4160 Kitty Tickler.

Even a neighbors dog, id not think would drag them away but would eat them right there, .. hmm very intriguing.
Aaron

 

[Chickeroonie keeper]

Im sorry to hear that, please let us know what you found out. If the animals were completely GONE? without any blood around? interesting, since anything attacking them, feathers everywhere for sure, but generally blood too from the fight. Sounds like it's time to put up a 4160 Kitty Tickler.

Even a neighbors dog, id not think would drag them away but would eat them right there, .. hmm very intriguing.
Aaron

Yeah, just gone. There were feathers, but only enough to be from about three chickens. About 10 went missing. Ordered a game camera today, hope it comes soon!!!

 

[Ascholten]

If the door was open, there is a chance maybe that whatever attacked the one or two, got them, but with the open door, the rest of them hauled ass and are around somewhere? A hawk spooked my girls one day and while the rest went berserk and ran under the bushes to hide, the biggest fatass of them all, managed to make it up over the fence and I found her walking around outside close to the neighbors house. Point being, when scared, they can do some crazy things you'd NEVER expect otherwise. Did you take a look around to see if yours are hanging out somewhere fairly close.

Do any of your neighbors have chickens too? Maybe someone's flock suddenly became a few birds bigger? It's happened before.

Aaron

 

[vintage]

The thing is, the door CAN be locked, and it was.

Can you post a pic? A locked door makes this very interesting.

 

[Chickeroonie keeper]

If the door was open, there is a chance maybe that whatever attacked the one or two, got them, but with the open door, the rest of them hauled ass and are around somewhere? A hawk spooked my girls one day and while the rest went berserk and ran under the bushes to hide, the biggest fatass of them all, managed to make it up over the fence and I found her walking around outside close to the neighbors house. Point being, when scared, they can do some crazy things you'd NEVER expect otherwise. Did you take a look around to see if yours are hanging out somewhere fairly close.

Do any of your neighbors have chickens too? Maybe someone's flock suddenly became a few birds bigger? It's happened before.

Aaron

I thought of that too. I searched my entire 4 acres, not a thing to be found! Besides the dead rooster, who must’ve chased whatever it was to try to protect his girls. He was a ways from the coop.

 

[Chickeroonie keeper]

Can you post a pic? A locked door makes this very interesting.

Yep. I’ll get a pic tomorrow

 

[Geckolady]

Since you don't have any chickens, leave your coop door open tonight. If some of them are hiding somewhere, they might come back to the safety of the coop for the night.

 

[Chickeroonie keeper]

Ordered some more chicks today, also thinking about getting a guard goose. (To sound an alarm and make me feel better LOL) I’m going to rebuild my chicken run, put a new lock on my coop, and probably get some electric poultry fencing and game cameras. (Maybe some traps too...)

 

[Chickeroonie keeper]

Since you don't have any chickens, leave your coop door open tonight. If some of them are hiding somewhere, they might come back to the safety of the coop for the night.

That’s a good idea