Outdoor Surveillance Cameras

[Carols Clucks]

On Monday, mom let the hens and our very antique rooster out to free range as usual.

A few hours later I went down in the lower garden to get the wheelbarrow and discovered the first hen dead. By the time we were done counting we only had one very scared young hen left and the very old hen who never left the coop that day. It was not the normal 4 legged or 2 winged predator, but one of the 2 legged variety that probably had way too much to drink the day before at a party. All had been hit it the head or had their necks broken. Not a bite mark on a one of them. They were friendly so if you threw them a slice of bread they would have stood on your toes to eat it.

Since we have 4 new girls inside growing feathers, we have a few weeks to shop for some kind of surveillance system. It would need to have aprox 200 feet of cable to reach a point we can watch the lower area and just who jumps our gate (something we will replace with something taller too) We do have a police report on this, along with animal control and zoning-rooster was to be the last one we could keep on the property due to the area building up and we were just visited with claims that we had replaced him.

Does anyone have suggestions? There is no power down there so we would have to run it from the house. We tried a game cam previously, but it wanted to be pointed north and the street is north so we got cards worth of car photos.

Thanks

 

[irishlotfarms]

So sorry to hear about that!!! I honestly have never heard of that!! when do the attacks occur? Did you try sitting there and catch the person red-handed? I am shocked someone would do that! I will be praying for you, and pray that the person will confess!!

 

[Carols Clucks]

Mom is very hard of hearing so she did not hear anything in the garden. We feel rather confident we know exactly which property the person lives on, just not sure which person. They have issues with a different neighbor and I think are assuming we are the ones making all the complaints. But it is frightening that they would take their issues so far. In the past they have threatened us, probably jokingly, to hose us down rather than their dogs for barking. Their dogs bark when ever we get with in 100 of our double fenced property lines then they start screaming far louder than the dogs and the calls get made. Previously we have had several hens die in an area that is in the direct view of an upstairs window. We assumed hawks but now we have to wonder why they took the AC unit out of that window and put it where it is very inconvenient. We have started tall roses for the thorny wall, but this is all under a large tree so not the best conditions and hard to place a camera to see everything

Mom is 90 and does not need to be hosed down or have her pets killed. This has been a very rough week.

Oh, attacked in broad daylight in view from the street no less.

 

[irishlotfarms]

From what I see ( i'm not an expert) the best thing to do is get a surveillance camera. I Pray this will end peacefully.

 

[MrSelf Destruct]

Surveillance cameras would be the way to go. I made a trench from the house to my barn and buried some PVC pipe in there below the frost line. I have the cable for my cameras running through those but I only had to trench around 40'. You can get some pretty decent DVR's (digital video recorders) from places like Tiger Direct. Night Owl is one of them that comes to mind. Depending on the model they are a couple hundred and will come with some low end cameras with them. DVR's are nice because you can set them to detect motion and are usually pretty easy to use when reviewing video or watching a live feed. Most have the option to monitor via an app on your smart phone or tablet if you have one. My DVR has ports for up to 16 cameras plus 2 PTZ's (pan/tilt/zoom). If you have a computer powerful enough, I think you might need a specific card or something, you can use your computer as a DVR and run a camera to that as well.

As far as cable goes, you can buy cable that has the line for your video and for power with the ends already connected. Otherwise, you can buy RG59u cable and put on the ends yourself.

 

[The Lazy L]

Trail cam for a $100. Give SIMM card to the police if there is another crime committed.

 

[Carols Clucks]

Thanks MrSelf. No frost worries here and I think it will be pretty "easy" to trench down the garden walk way down to the bottom of the property. I was thinking I might not have to go all the way to the bottom of the lot just close enough to see the gates and corners.

I am going to post signs first and see what kind of reaction I get....

The evil in me is thinking of having a friend call me and in a rather loud voice discuss how the sheriff knows who did it and who helped and just how much trouble they are in