Should I buy eggs or wait it out?

[Debby27]

A Father's day funny!!

BWAHHAHAHAHAHA!

 

[karl69]

Happy father's day to me....just as in the last couple hours lost my rooster and a del.my favorite del.. I'm guessing it was a hawk or two, there are no feathers anywhere

G.W. McClintock (G.W.) Katie. RIP
I am ******, nothing will get within 10 feet of that coop without dieing!!

 

[XxMingirlxX]

Happy father's day to me....just as in the last couple hours lost my rooster and a del.my favorite del.. I'm guessing it was a hawk or two, there are no feathers anywhere

G.W. McClintock (G.W.) Katie. RIP
I am ******, nothing will get within 10 feet of that coop without dieing!!

I am sorry for your loss Karl, it can be so frustrating dealing with the predators

 

[cheeka]

I'm so sorry karl, no chance that they're hiding somewhere? that's the rub... long hours of free range, the predators don't take long to show up. took mine 3 months and 2 days to find them, learn the ways of the day, and strike. they'll return every day until you have none left. you might want to curtail the length of free range they have. I tend to wait til later in the day, and never let them stay out til actual dark. by then it's too late. but that's me... I've lost birds at all times of day. early, late, and in between... but I still take the risk of free range.

 

[karl69]

I am sorry for your loss Karl, it can be so frustrating dealing with the predators

Thank you, I am just so P Oed I looked for 2 hrs for any kind of sign...nothing. That's why I think it was a hawk.

 

[Debby27]

Happy father's day to me....just as in the last couple hours lost my rooster and a del.my favorite del.. I'm guessing it was a hawk or two, there are no feathers anywhere
G.W. McClintock (G.W.) Katie. RIP
I am ******, nothing will get within 10 feet of that coop without dieing!!

Oh hun, bless your heart....I and everyone here knows how you feel......I hope you find out what happened to them and I really hope they are hiding up in a tree somewhere and come out soon

I have my fingers crossed for ya!

PS: Thermal Imager works real good when it's getting dark & you can't find your hens.....we found 2 of ours like that when we thought they had gotten eaten....they were hiding in the small tree behind the coop.....

 

[karl69]

I'm so sorry karl, no chance that they're hiding somewhere?  that's the rub... long hours of free range, the predators don't take long to show up.  took mine 3 months and 2 days to find them, learn the ways of the day, and strike.  they'll return every day until you have none left.  you might want to curtail the length of free range they have.  I tend to wait til later in the day, and never let them stay out til actual dark.  by then it's too late.  but that's me... I've lost birds at all times of day. early, late, and in between... but I still take the risk of free range. 

Thank you, cheeka
There locked up now ,I feel bad its not there fault but they get punished. I'll have to be mores random about when they get to free range.

 

[karl69]

GOOD NEWS, GOOD NEWS, Katie was found unskaved , she has been reunited with her sister's.
Keeping an eye out for G.W., hopefully he is hiding somewhere.

 

[Debby27]

GOOD NEWS, GOOD NEWS, Katie was found unskaved , she has been reunited with her sister's.
Keeping an eye out for G.W., hopefully he is hiding somewhere.

SAWEEEEEEEEEEET.....they will hide on ya sometimes.....maybe they were having a little boot knockin' going on???

PS...and he fell asleep somewhere????? as men sometimes do??

 

[XxMingirlxX]

GOOD NEWS, GOOD NEWS, Katie was found unskaved , she has been reunited with her sister's.
Keeping an eye out for G.W., hopefully he is hiding somewhere.

That's great! I used to have a polish that sometimes decided to sleep in a ten foot high bush. The first time I though she had been eaten. I could never find her but each morning she would jump down. She caused me so much stress but it just goes to show that you shouldn't lose hope.