Nope Bears have one motivation FOOD of any kind listen to what you have been told please they are so very right
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That's what we were afraid of. We will be as careful as can be. We meticulously built the coop/run by hand and have raised some (thus far) very healthy and happy chickens--would not want to lose that all in a blink!Nope Bears have one motivation FOOD of any kind listen to what you have been told please they are so very right
Southwest VA, in a national park basicallyOkay, where do your black bears live? What state?
Western, Maryland here... I don’t suggest running toward at bear no matter where you live. If they are hungry enough or a sow with cubs they will attack. I have personally have been within 5 yards of three different bears and neither have ran more curious than anything (no chickens then).Okay, where do your black bears live? What state?
That's some relief, then (the Eastern bear part not the scalping incident--so sorry for that woman). A couple neighbors of ours have lived here quite some time and have never had issues with anything getting into their pretty loosely secured coops (we made ours Fort Knox-esque nonetheless)--only during free range hours by the usual suspects: foxes and coyotes. People rarely see bears but they are here, albeit shier than their Western cousins. Thanks for the cautionary tales, we will re-think our methods!Good. I've heard from people on this forum that eastern bears are much better behaved than their western cousins who are downright barbaric with no manners whatsoever.
I might add to the grizzly (no pun intended) tales I've related that a few years ago, just six miles from my place, a woman went out beating two pans together to scare off a couple of young bears on her deck. The noise apparently enraged the bears who proceeded to tear her face and scalp off. Luckily, she lived, but was in the hospital for many months for reconstructive surgery.
Bears are so plentiful here that the hardware store in town keeps its backdoor open during business hours so when a bear runs into the store from the front, it has the open backdoor beckoning so it won't get confused and run amok in the store. Did I mention bears can do a lot of damage in just a few minutes?