- Nov 16, 2013
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I don't know what else to do!!! I am a newby and had 21 chickens, just for fun, they are smart, cute and funny. My goal was to free range them during the day and coop them up at night.
We have 5 acres and they were happy scratching around when I started finding feathers, a beak here and there. This is happening during the day!!! So I limited their space to a fenced in 1/5 of acre, but sure enough one week has passed and every other day there is a dead chicken. Then my husband and I made Fort Knox! A chain link box 40x40 with wire on top, so there is no way in.
Last night something dug a hole under the coop and killed 3 chickens...
I am so devastated. Now there is no safety for them. The creature digs under and goes in no matter where, it goes at night as well as during the day.
I didn't even go to work today, I stayed fixing the mess the animal did at night (closing the hole, adding wire etc.)
Does anybody have any suggestions?
I saw another thread and will get strobe light tomorrow, so that might work for nights, but what about during the day?
I leave on a paved road, have neighbors on all sides, but they have seen bobcats, coyotes and racoons....
Thanks,
We have 5 acres and they were happy scratching around when I started finding feathers, a beak here and there. This is happening during the day!!! So I limited their space to a fenced in 1/5 of acre, but sure enough one week has passed and every other day there is a dead chicken. Then my husband and I made Fort Knox! A chain link box 40x40 with wire on top, so there is no way in.
Last night something dug a hole under the coop and killed 3 chickens...
I am so devastated. Now there is no safety for them. The creature digs under and goes in no matter where, it goes at night as well as during the day.
I didn't even go to work today, I stayed fixing the mess the animal did at night (closing the hole, adding wire etc.)
Does anybody have any suggestions?
I saw another thread and will get strobe light tomorrow, so that might work for nights, but what about during the day?
I leave on a paved road, have neighbors on all sides, but they have seen bobcats, coyotes and racoons....
Thanks,