No eggs!?

[BigBlueHen53]

Unless you need to catch them for some purpose... Ask my sore back how I know that today, lol

Whoa, waitaminnit. Are you saying ... You can't catch them at night? On the roost? What'd you do, turn the light on?

 

[BigBlueHen53]

I have a light I can wear around my head or around my neck. It is kind of "U" shaped. At each end there is an LED light which is quite bright. But I colored one of them over with red Sharpie and that's the one I use at night in the chicken coop. They don't see well in red light.

 

[SourRoses]

Whoa, waitaminnit. Are you saying ... You can't catch them at night? On the roost? What'd you do, turn the light on?

If "them" is one, then yes. Hehe. Have you ever noticed some roos have really great night vision? It's not all of them, to be sure. And I've never met a hen who could fly around in the dark. But I turned my flashlight off before I got all the way to the coop.
Anyway your prior point stands, only my back wanted to whine about the experience.

 

[BigBlueHen53]

Whine all you want, I sometimes have a back too. In fact, wine if you want to!

 

[Anon112]

I'm curious about the coordination you witnessed. What was their methodology?
Having lost a large pullet once to rat(s) a few years back in a supposedly secure coop. I always wondered how the creeps approach chickens in a way that doesn't startle them, or do they simply overwhelm them. But I also don't want to know, if you know what I mean...

I have a video of it in my thread called "Rats? A Cat? . . . ". Very upsetting to watch.

From what I watched of the attack on my rooster, it is not a quick process, and it's really hard to think about my two girls who went out that way.