I am going to kill this fox !

[mxpres]

my first time here,I lost 5 beutiful astralorp hens to some type of critter,woke up one mornng and all five were outside the pen dead,sometime during the night something found a weak place in the wire and got in,one was partly eaten and the rest were just killed,I suspect a dog,I have put 1 inch welded wire around the poultry wire,4 feet up,added electric fence around the bottom and top of the wire,installed 4 nite guards that I ordered,six strands of barbed wire on the coop door,shotgun standing at the back door,anyone got any ideas??,they were chickens but they were my pets,

 

[Wildsky]

good luck Henry

 

[cottagegarden]

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mxpres that must have been very traumatic for you. I am really sorry to read that. I hope you find many good suggestions for your future chickens. It looks like you have a pretty secure coop now!

 

[hcammack]

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Thats terrible I hope my new stronger runs and to coop moving closer to the house stops this guy or girl I just can't take it any more I will also be waiting every afternoon with my pellet rifle

 

[cw]

why a pellet rifle why not a real gun?

 

[hcammack]

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Don't have a real gun and my parents don't either so I am using what I have. I am sure I will have a gun sometime in my future.

 

[cottagegarden]

I just scared off some foxes that had the neighbors cat pinned against some brush last week.
I used to love them before we got poultry. DH took a shot but missed(both the foxes and the cat) Since this keeps happening it might be a generalization but foxes will take the carcass and domestic dogs will kill for sport and leave it. Sounds like you have had both attacks.
UG. Sorry, this really stinks. I think we have all got a soft spot for your hens since they are so well documented.

 

[hcammack]

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Thanks relized I am down to a dozen birds

I had 17 a month ago !!! this is just crappy hopefully this solves the problem and I can keep them all thriving.

Henry

 

[cw]

can respect that

 

[hcammack]

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Shhh I want a shotgun

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