Thanks Renie'sPeeps! Called the Fish and Game and Game Warden came over with a Federal Biologist. The electric fencing is up all around the coop and run. Three strands with a piece of tinfoil with peanut butter on it, so she/he will smell it and get a zap. They also put up a motion sensor really loud sound device near the end of my porch, as the chicks are in the house as well as the feed, so if the bear can't gain access to the coop, it MIGHT try the house. Once this trial is done there will definitely be electric fencing out there after also. Just have to save a tad to get it, but it's going to be a while before anything for sure can be determined so will work out. Thank God, He had things keep going wrong for me putting the new chicks out.
Yeah you are right on all accounts! A bear can and will, if hungry enough, tear into ANYTHING short of a shipping container or something similar and can on occasion, even tear through really strong electric fencing. All together, it came back 5 times in 48 hours. Really hoping this will work. They checked the top strip at the back and it was above 6000, can't remember how much more, but quite a bit. It's battery powered and will need batteries around 2 weeks but should last 3, I'm sticking with 2 weeks though. We will see. Since the bear actually took a swipe at me, last night, and left claw mark on my arm, if this doesn't work, they will have to trap her/him. I really hope the bear decides this is not a nice place anymore and moves on!!!!
They even brought a guy to fix the door, as I had stepped on nails in the dark last night and since I can't feel my feet ( from a bad car accident in 2002 and am considered a para ), I didn't know it was as bad as it is, until this am. Went to ER and got Cipro as have lines, so infected. Thanks for wanting to help, I really do appreciate that
I am really amazed at all the Fish and Game are doing to attempt to stop this predation, for free and indefinitely, until we are sure the bear and maybe family has moved on. I lost a rooster and 4 hens all together. The remaining ten, all hatchery birds, are doing ok considering and seem unhurt, just in shock. They are eating, drinking and no visible signs of injury. The Biologist checked one for me and even helped with the night feeding/watering and we got them locked in the coop early so I could soak the foot and get some sleep. I hope!
Was the hardest this am at 4:30 when the bear came back for the fifth time and I had to listen to my poor hen scream for almost 20 minutes until I could no longer hear her. The bear headed north, down the mountain, so if it is female and has cubs, they should be able to find them, if the need arises, with that info, or get close enough to trap the cubs. If this doesn't work, then they will trap Momma Bear here, and then go for the cubs at/near the den. Praying this works and moves her/them/him on into more natural habitat and away from people. That bear was NOT afraid of me at all!
I am so grateful for New Hampshire's Fish and Game, Local Game Warden, The two local police officers that responded, the friend of the Game Warden and the Federal Biologist! I couldn't have done this without their help! I can not walk from stepping on the nails. Those were really LONG nails I was putting in the door. Still didn't work with double boards on the door. The bear just went right through both of them anyway! Well, going to try to catch some sleep until the motion alarm goes off, as I know it will. NOT going out this time. The first officer really thought it was a person, maybe kids. I'm really not crazy enough to go out and holler at a bear in the dark of night! I really thought it was prolly kids also, pulling a really bad prank. Imagine my surprise when the "kids" turned out to be the head of a bear coming out of the coop after I hollered, " Get out of my coop"!
Pretty scary out their in the dark with a pen light, nailing the door back up all alone too! Especially after getting swiped by the bear. God was watching over me last night, that's for sure! If I hadn't had an issue with my ankle, ect from car accident and kinda tripped when trying to back away from the bear, that bear could've and would've done tons of damage!
All in all, even though I lost birds, it could've been wayyy worse. I hope people take this as a lesson for their own coops and bear proof them and the bottom line is, we really can't totally predator proof our coops, especially from a bear! It was a whole year for me, before a bear decided to break into that coop. It has double walls, double floors, double ceiling, double door, with wire in between.
Few more things I read as I was looking into bear attacks. Chicken food is like crack to bears and that is usually the draw in for them. Once they taste chicken, they will NOT stop coming back, bears eat all day and night from spring until fall to gain back the weight for hibernation. Bears can rip a door off a car and they are VERY intelligent. They can break into people houses, if they are hungry enough. Once a bear is no longer afraid of humans, the bear usually has to be put down as they can travel many miles to get back to their territory and will so relocation is not always a solution although it can be in certain circumstances.
This is a Northern Black Bear that did all this damage and even though they are not normally aggressive to humans, they can be.
thanks for the offers! But if anyone closer has barred rock, definitely let me know. My neighbor wants some too, and he's been doing SO much work for us I figure that's an easy way to pay him, since he doesn't want money. So probably two dozen eggs would be good. I'd only need maybe a half dozen of Cayuga eggs and another half dozen of Swedish, again, if anyone local has any available 
