I have the good luck of having neighbors down the road who enjoy feeding wild coons table scraps and considers them their "friends". (wait till one turns on her, possibly with rabies). They also have two dogs that run wild and have killed three deer that I know of. I see them running deer in the mornings. One small Axis deer had his back hind leg chewed off. We use to have a heard of twenty two in our valley and now they are gone. I ran one of the dogs off, trying to dig into my coop. I told them the coons are being thinned out as we speak and the dogs are next. Enough is enough. They moved her from a large city. The only way to take care of your flock is to be extremely aggressive in protecting them against, selfish, insensitive, people and predators. As you know, something you care deeply about can be gone in a flash. Starting a flock is fun and fulfilling but it's no walk in the park to raise and keep them. Good luck, franko
