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[Cluckminster Fuller]

I have found the audio devices better than the video. Video just tells you what was there as you sometimes can't get out fast. The audio chases things off.

 

[jastech]

The wire is far too open. Almost any predator could get through that. I'd cover it with screen. Try to make it go into the ground a way to keep digging animals out. Snakes can eat eggs, too. But the first pics looked to me like what raccoons do. They get in, kill, but cannot drag the carcasses out. If you ever can get some money, there are devices that send an audio signal that repels critters. It as different setting for different critters. We used the Raccoon setting and it helped a lot. But it also helps if you have your own dog to chase off predators, pee and poop in the area, bark, etc. My audio device is made by GoodLife and was recommended on this site a while back by someone. Mine needs electricity, but a drop cord would probably work. Maybe they have battery ones? The sound for deer (I used one to protect my plants, too) is scary loud, but for raccoons it's a high pitch that people and chickens barely hear.
It took a while for my surviving chickens to lay again. They were very traumatized. New ones did fine.
Cover that coop with screen and bury it some and I think it will help a lot.
Best wishes and luck.

Its covered with chicken wire. When I have the money I'll buy hail screen/hardware cloth.

 

[jastech]

I have found the audio devices better than the video. Video just tells you what was there as you sometimes can't get out fast. The audio chases things off.

I want to see on video who's dog/s are killing my pets. Also, many have been stolen, including garden tools, gas, pressure washer and? I had 4 dogs die in one month, vomited their food, blood out of nose and mouth. Two Game Wardens and the Vet said they were poisoned. So video and audio recording to catch who's stealing and poisoning my animals so they can be held accountable.

 

[cundare]

My son and I have been raising Red Star, Delaware and Barred Rock chickens a long with Pekin, Rouen, Runner and Muscovy ducks. I'm disabled so the eggs help the grocery bill and selling the extra eggs pays their food, treats and on utilities. My son went out to feed and this is what he saw.View attachment 2801622

How horrible. This is my own worst nightmare. Could it have been a diet issue? There are seemingly harmless plants that can kill many birds, like tomato-plant leaves. Up close, does it look like a physical attack? I'm so sorry that this happened to you. I can imagine how you feel, having experienced a loss like this many years ago when I was raising koi and goldfish -- I lost all but one of my fish in one day. Took a while to get over it.

 

[Fowlingalong]

Don't know what would just kill them all and leave them? One momma duck was on her nest dead. Game Warden has been called and he's trying to figure this out. Others told me it must have been an owl??

Red foxes,killed all mine and left them.I live in nevada.

 

[jastech]

I have found the audio devices better than the video. Video just tells you what was there as you sometimes can't get out fast. The audio chases things off.

I want to see on video who's dog/s are killing my pets. Also, many have been stolen, including garden tools, gas, pressure washer and? I had 4 dogs die in one month, vomited their food, blood out of nose and mouth. Two Game Wardens and the it Vet said they were poisoned. So video and audio recording to catch who's stealing and poisoning my animals so they can be held accountable.

How horrible. This is my own worst nightmare. Could it have been a diet issue? There are seemingly harmless plants that can kill many birds, like tomato-plant leaves. Up close, does it look like a physical attack? I'm so sorry that this happened to you. I can imagine how you feel, having experienced a loss like this many years ago when I was raising koi and goldfish -- I lost all but one of my fish in one day. Took a while to get over it.

Wasn't plants, predators via animal and human.

 

[Fowlingalong]

Desert fox did the same to mine,killed and left.I live in southern nevada

 

[Boingy]

My son and I have been raising Red Star, Delaware and Barred Rock chickens a long with Pekin, Rouen, Runner and Muscovy ducks. I'm disabled so the eggs help the grocery bill and selling the extra eggs pays their food, treats and on utilities. My son went out to feed and this is what he saw.View attachment 2801622

 

[Boingy]

My son and I have been raising Red Star, Delaware and Barred Rock chickens a long with Pekin, Rouen, Runner and Muscovy ducks. I'm disabled so the eggs help the grocery bill and selling the extra eggs pays their food, treats and on utilities. My son went out to feed and this is what he saw.View attachment 2801622

This is so awful to read.

 

[lifein1840]

Sorry I'm rambling on, it too quiet now, my son and I are very distraught. There has been a bird dog reported running loose, that's what I shot at in the goats area. Will they do this to chickens and ducks?

Yes, dogs will kill as many as they can and leave them scattered around