So sorry for your loss. We are rural on a dead end road. Our land is mostly open pasture. I don't let my birds free range anymore due to losses in the past. My birds have nice large covered pens, electric wires around the coops and pens and concrete under the gates all due to losses in the past. I also have several game cameras on my property. When you free range it's the risk you take. Good luck...
So sorry for your loss too. The only thing is to make sure your birds are safe as I said in the previous post. I have lost quite a few birds over the years too. Lessons learned the hard way. Good luck...
As you know it's illegal to kill a bird of prey unless you get a permit. I have good heavy duty netting covering all of my pens. The netting has been up for several years and I have only once had an owl get caught in it. We managed to get the owl out and into a cage and called a wildlife rescue who came and got it. It was going through some crappy netting that I have since replaced. I thought even though it was crappy it would still deter any aerial predator, wrong. It tried to go through the good netting and got caught. The rescue said they had a release area and that it shouldn't be back. Good luck...
