I don't really hate coyotes, but I hate what they did to my flock...
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yea me too. I lost my most important cream legbar rooster on an attack that i lost 14. i fixed my pens then about a month later i lost 46. Mostly Ams i bought from one of the best guys in the country. A neighbors dog lead the attack so they were no longer skittish around my house.I don't really hate coyotes, but I hate what they did to my flock...
Did the coyotes get in the pens or while free-ranging?yea me too. I lost my most important cream legbar rooster on an attack that i lost 14. i fixed my pens then about a month later i lost 46. Mostly Ams i bought from one of the best guys in the country. A neighbors dog lead the attack so they were no longer skittish around my house.
They got in the pen. I tracked all their tracks that day. the coyotes went to neighbors house picked up their dog.Did the coyotes get in the pens or while free-ranging?
Dogs add a whole different dimension.
That is a stunning combined loss.
Are you sure it is the pullet making the noise? Sometimes the CL cockerels start a squeeky crow very young. My birds also trilled when they were happy -- it was a soft sound..but unlike any other breed of chicken that I every experienced. The trill means happy -- and they usually do it when humans are outside and they are inside. ;O)Quick question. I have some clb that I hatched out from eggs I purchased from garydean26. There about 3 weeks old and going strong but the question or well something that baffles me is one of the pullets makes this loud/weird chirp not a normal chirp that chicks make. Its almost like a bird singing and its loud. I keep going in and checking to see if maybe if a different kind of fowls eggs got in by mistake but they all look alike except for the boys/girls differences. What do y'all think?
Nice run Steen.... are those cattle panels and what we call around here T-posts? What is the height? I think here for fencing we usually use 4' T-posts. Do you have hardware cloth along the bottom? or all the way to the top.They got in the pen. I tracked all their tracks that day. the coyotes went to neighbors house picked up their dog.
They came up my land passed a rather large hen house Ive had there for over a year and they have never dug under those fences.
They passed up those which by the way are a hundred yards away and cant be seen from my house. And birds i didn't really care about compared to the ones they got.
They came up to the grow out run i had right by my house and just dug away. I was gone at the time so they had time to do it. I don't think they would stick around this area
long enough to do what they did without the neighbors dog giving them courage. From what i can tell they had the younger ones at one end pushing them down the run from
the one side and down threw the run to the holes they dug out. They just funneled them out the cage. Here is before i fixed the digging issue.
Ill take some pics of how i fixed the digging problem. I laid cattle panels flat on the ground and covered the outside edges with rocks and dirt and giant dead tree logs. i left the cpl feet right next to the cage not buried so when they dig they can feel the metal.