HE CAME UP ON MY PORCH!!!

[keesmom]

Are her chickens safe? What safe-guards does she use?

About all I can do for mine right now is to lock them in the coop but it wasn't meant to hold about 80-90 chickens, guineas, ducks and geese. I had hoped the little ones, bantam Cochins and others as small as they, would be safe in a pen right next to our front porch but he pulled one out through the fence, and the light was on!!

A secure coop is really the only way to keep them safe. Mink and weasels can walk through most fences, raccoons and fishers can pull them through. If the fenced in area isn't covered then you have owls, and fishers can climb very well too. If the fence isn't tall foxes, coyotes and bobcats can jump over the top.

 

[Sylviaanne]

A secure coop is really the only way to keep them safe. Mink and weasels can walk through most fences, raccoons and fishers can pull them through. If the fenced in area isn't covered then you have owls, and fishers can climb very well too. If the fence isn't tall foxes, coyotes and bobcats can jump over the top.

What are fishers?

 

[enola]

They are bigger than a mink but smaller than a badger. Very mean disposition. Carnivores that love to free load on any chickens they can locate.

 

[keesmom]

What are fishers?

They are members of the weasel family. They average about 3 feet in length.

 

[enola]

Ugly!

 

[Rocky64]

Looks like a small wolverine

 

[OnlyOrps]

I use great pyrenees. I've never lost an animal or bird to a predator.

 

[Sylviaanne]

They are members of the weasel family. They average about 3 feet in length.

I haven't seen any pictures of anything that looks like that around here and I hadn't heard of them before I hope there are none around. I already have the raccoons, opossums and armadillos and recently I saw a coyote crossing the freeway about 1/8 mile north of us. LOL I don't need any more predators.

 

[Sylviaanne]

I use great pyrenees. I've never lost an animal or bird to a predator.

I wish I could afford one, one already trained. As many birds as I have lost, I'd have a good start on a down payment if I had the money for them.

 

[enola]

I feel the same way! My boy friend says no to another dog. But, I lost about 50 chickens last year. I could have bought a really good guard breed....