Farm chatter

[riss]

Does anyone else make gravestones fore their chickens? I did for my favorite one growing up named Happy Feet when she was attacked by a dog and I made a gravestone for her when I was like 8

A bunch of our chicks were attacked too and killed. Like the heads ripped off

 

[MysteryChicken]

Does anyone else make gravestones fore their chickens? I did for my favorite one growing up named Happy Feet when she was attacked by a dog and I made a gravestone for her when I was like 8

No, I don't. I feed my dead birds to the coyotes.

 

[riss]

No, I don't. I feed my dead birds to the coyotes.

Aren't you worried about the coyotes coming for your live ones

 

[CHlCKEN]

Does anyone else make gravestones fore their chickens? I did for my favorite one growing up named Happy Feet when she was attacked by a dog and I made a gravestone for her when I was like 8

I bury them and leave a large rock as a marker but wouldn’t consider that a gravestone.

 

[MysteryChicken]

A bunch of our chicks were attacked too and killed. Like the heads ripped off

Sounds like a Raccoon got in there.

 

[MysteryChicken]

Aren't you worried about the coyotes coming for your live ones

Never had an issue with them. Only Raccoon, skunk, weasel, & birds of prey got any of our birds.

 

[CHlCKEN]

What predator takes the entire bird with no trace, not even fathers or blood? And multiple at once.

This happened to me several years ago.

 

[MysteryChicken]

What predator takes the entire bird with no trace, not even fathers or blood? And multiple at once.

This happened to me several years ago.

Foxes, I believe Bobcats will occasionally.

 

[CHlCKEN]

Foxes, I believe Bobcats will occasionally.

I have no foxes around here but I have a Bobcat.
I lost, what, eight in one night? Something like that.

It’s a mystery.

 

[MysteryChicken]

I have no foxes around here but I have a Bobcat.
I lost, what, eight in one night? Something like that.

It’s a mystery.

A Bobcat will do that. They also kill for sport.
It probably took them one, by one back to it's home.