Lost my last chicken yesterday. Guess i need advice...

[mikesbigroo]

i had the same problem when i started, i ended up putting the wire buried under ground, then used landscape timbers on both sides, looks good as well, got a small portable radio and put it on a 24hr, talk show, just loud enough to here when near my cope, no problems since

 

[mdbokc]

I like that talk radio idea....human presence.

 

[JInSouthMS]

I caught a preditor!

actually it is one of my dogs toby. he's a west highland white terior. i hope he is nt my preditor. he does like to dig...

 

[PortageGirl]

I hope you don't get too discouraged, give it another go with better precautions. You've already gotten some good tips, check out the preditor and coop pages, take some more precautions.

Things will all work out with some trial and effort. Yeah, I know they're living creatures, and you hate to lose them, but they are replacable, and at least don't usually cost an arm and a leg. This is the time to live and learn, before you invest too too much money.

Sorry if that sounds cold, but we all do our best, and in the end, your chickens will be the winners, whichever incarnation of a flock it is.

 

[ginbart]

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Question, where did you have the trap? In the coop or out? If it was out maybe he was going in after the bait. If it was in the coop I'm sorry. If you need some RIR eggs let me know I can send you some. Now I need to post about losing my first chicken.

Sorry for your loss.

 

[JInSouthMS]

l won't get discouraged. I have reinforced the week spot that was there by re-buring the bottom of the fence and added pine logs. the trap was outside the pen. i heard somewhere that hair would detur deer from eating a garden so i thought maybe coons or foxes might not come to close if it smells like human. so far nothing has tried to get in. I had to move my chicks into the cage that i was using to hold my 2 hens and roo so the treo had to go back in the big pen.