My Heart Is Broken. My Poor Little Chicks And Mom Murdered.

[CrestedGirl]

im so sorry this happened

!!!!! we had a mom of three chicks die and she wasn't able to raise her chicks

 

[chickens are great 12]

I'm so sorry

 

[ChickasaurusRex]

I'm so sorry for what happened to your mama hen and babies.

They look so beautiful in your picture
What breed was she and her chicks?

 

[happyhensny]

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Since hurricaine Irene I have lost a pair of Mandarin ducks and last night a female Pheasant. It is awful.

 

[Buiscuit]

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They were Black Tailed Buff Japanese Bantams. Really sweet breed. she never flinched when we would pick her up and trusted us fully with her chicks. She never pecked at us when she was sitting on her little eggs, she would sit there and let us lightly pet her.

 

[Buiscuit]

Everyone on this site has to be the most kind and passionate people I have ever talked with. Best site on the web. People just dont realize what a great and fun pet chickens really are.

 

[Wildflower_VA]

It might be normal in the chicken world, but reading this made me cry my eyes out, and they are not my precious chickens.

Your Biscuit and her babies were beautiful! I am so sorry for your loss.

One thing for sure, your neighbor should never feed raccoons. Even if they weren't so destructive, they carry rabies and should never be encouraged to come to neighborhoods by being fed. We have had so many rabid raccoons in Virginia this year.

I have been so lucky. I see a red fox in the field in front of my house nearly every day. My neighbor to the rear sees coyotes all the time in the woods that separate out properties. My woods is full of groundhog dens and we have a lot of possums. My run and coop are not Fort Knox by any means, but so far nothing has happened to my six laying hens. I have my seven week old chicks in a fairly secure pasture pen inside of an electric poultry netting fence, but I still worry.

I am having a secure coop built this month, which will have a fenced run, but after reading this, I am going to surround the whole thing with the electric poultry netting fence. It is a pain to get in and out of the electric fence, but not as much pain as finding my my precious babies killed.

 

[GardenGal]

I'm so sorry for your loss.

 

[real_redhead]

I am so sorry, I know how you feel. My son found one of our chickens that something had gotten. It was one of the worst days of my life!

 

[GoldenSparrow]

Oh my i am o sorry for you all.

I will send prayers your way