X 2! They can reach their hands right through that chicken wire and grab a neck. So sorry for your loss. I know how it feels!
Hello and thank you so much . I know this is going to sound horrible .. but I do have blue tarp covering the chicken wire and I take it off during the day . I am wondering if you think one of my other ducks could have killed her . I didn’t see any blood on my other white crested and didn’t see anything on my two black Swedish ducks . All females .. but I have reinforced the chicken wire and I have the tarp over the entire pen . I am just so heart broken . I don’t hear them quack with excitement any more . George was their leader . It’s just so hard to not have her out there . I guess I just get too close to my babies . But on the note of if my other duck could of have killed George . Tonight I am sitting out side w 20gauge and I do have traps set also .. but my other crested isn’t letting my two black Swedish inside the house . I have never seen any of them act like this . I know they are nervous . I have the back yard lite up with every security lite I have and I will catch what took my george from me . I know I sound mean but I love my ducksBear hugs! - So sorry about her being killed.
Was her body laying close to the wire? I see chicken-wire on your pictures and have read here that raccoons reach through the chicken wire, grab a bird and try to pull it through. Your DH may have disturbed the 'coon when he let the dog out.
Whatever it was, it will come back tonight and the following nights until it got what it wants. I hear it all the time: Chicken wire is designed to keep the chickens in not to keep predators out - and yet my duck house is "protected" with chicken wire too, hardware cloth is just too expensive. After i lost one of my little Buff Orpingtons to a racoon, i covered the inside of the duck house with tarps, so that the ducks could not touch the wire and hooked up a 3,000V neon transformer… I also set up a trap and one weekend later that 'coon had a "tragic accident".
Is there any way you can cover the bottom 3 feet of the wire with something sturdy overnight? - And get a racoon trap! Get that duck-killer!
. Just shows commitment and dedication .
Yes . But it would have to be big . And my white crested butt head is the one not letting any one else in there . Omg omg I never checked under the house ! Omg going out there now . I mean it’s entirely enclosed but I still didn’t check under it . It’s like 2 inches off ground w bricks under it . Yes I did find George next to the chicken wire .
Security cameras on my ducks in their house
