How far would you go to save a chicken?

[MGG]

It depends though

 

[cluckmecoop7]

I'm talking about maybe risking your life for a animal. Maybe your chicken was in the road and about to get hit? Would you rescue it?

 

[rosemarythyme]

I have to look at bears as the obvious example. We have a local sow bear, though I have never seen it. My neighbor reported she was hanging out in their yard though, tearing up their saplings. I'm fully aware that short of electric fencing or steel walls, a bear can pretty much get into whatever it wants. So sorry chickens, if Ms. Bear decides to have chicken for dinner, I'm hiding inside the house (though from all reports she's lazy and goes for easy meals like bird feeders and cat food dishes).

With other things, I'd either send my hubby out or at least one of our dogs. Had a small coyote eyeing the run back in December and I heard the chickens alarm call, so I ran out with an axe handle, but it was already hightailing it out of there. In hindsight I should've brought my Anatolian with me too.

 

[aart]

I don't know, never been there so not sure how I would react.
But my birds are securely confined to avoid such situations.

 

[cluckmecoop7]

Well, please don't think I'm crazy but I would save my chickens in a fire, from a fox/other animal and other things. *stubborn*

Yep. I would. Risk your life for a gander but not a chicken? Woe!

 

[MGG]

That's so awful @SueT

 

[casportpony]

Well, I would definitely chase away a fox or other predators that we have here, but I don't feel that would be much of a risk to me. We don't have bears as far as I know. I've chased away hawks, raccoons, lurking coyotes, and dogs. If there was a fire, I'd open the coop doors, and let chickens find their way out.

x2

 

[casportpony]

The county runs the dump. They have huge mounds of wood chippings. At least one of the mounds caught fire through spontaneous combustion. The employees claimed they put the fire out and went home. It was a very dry period with very high winds. The fire spread very rapidly. A lot of people lost their homes. They tried to evacuate everyone but I said no. The smoke was so thick you couldn't see through it other than a red glow in places.

To make it worse the next day they tried to set a backfire which also got out of control and burned more people out.

That sucks! How did you fight the flame? Regular garden hoses?

 

[Tortoise]

I would go pretty far to save my animals. Chickens, lizard, tortoises is all I have right now. How far, not real sure and hope I never have to find out.

 

[twendt]

I saw muddy raccoon prints on my prefab coop (my first year of keeping/ a lot has changed) I called my mother immediately and got her live trap. Set it up that evening with old pizza as bait, In the morning as I was on my way to work, I saw him in the trap, BIG RACCOON. I called my mom, she came over and shot him (took 4 shots to the head) , 40lb Buck, she said it was the biggest raccoon she's seen. Glad I took action. I since built a sturdy, predator proof coop with attached run. I'm right outside the city so my predators are raccoons, fox, hawks, and coyotes, there are Bald Eagles that have been sighted recently. I have lots of cover for the girls, so I'm not that worried of arial attacks. There is a lot of human activity, so predators usually come out at night when my girls are locked up.