Hi, From Huntsville Alabama

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Project Blue said:
I've raised chickens for 20+ years battling everything from raccoons to minks. My coops are fortresses with buried wire and metal sheeting and two layers of hardwire. I'm guessing bobcat because I saw a big cat like track, but I'm not sure. One coop was surrounded by chainlink fencing. Whatever, opened the coops was incredibly strong and agile, as it made big holes and snapped through 1/2 hardwire like nothing. After something makes a hole at night where the chickens are, it's a predator buffet. Oddly, later, my neighbor's cat was dead in the big coop a week later with a lot of blood around the neck area but not eaten. That neighbor suffered losses as well. I still have not fixed the big coop
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I keep my hardware cloth reinforced/aproned coop/run setup behind electrified poultry netting powered with a 10,000 volt charger. I have a known mama bear living in the woods behind my house and I've seen fisher cats, racoons, opossums back there, I've heard coyote and fox and have seen bobcat prints around. No ground predator has ever taken a single bird from their enclosure. I've had a single successful hawk strike in just over 6 years.
 

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