How do human intruders work? I keep key locks on our coop and was always worried someone may come and just try and steal them or possibly may not like them and kill them. I have an aggressive rooster that only likes me so it's pretty funny when people decide to mess with him. But I'm just wondering what do human intruders do?
I used to have just critter resistant latches (no key or code needed). My egg counts had gone from around 18 a day to just 2 or 3. I swore someone was stealing eggs. Hubs said I was nuts.....until there were footprints in the snow going around the house, through the side gate, straight to the coop and back out. That day I got 1 egg.
Luckily my birds have never been fond of strangers. To get in the run means leaving the coop to go to the run door. I am sure my hens all darted out to the run as a stranger entered the coop. Heading into the run they would have run back into the house. Chasing them would have drawn attention with all the screaming the hens would have been doing.
Padlocks went on that night. The next day I had my expected egg counts.
Humans can be the absolute worst.