Someone stole a chicken from my backyard :o

[EweSheep]

How would someone make a salt shot?????? I would love to deter thieves from getting into our shed (yep, theyw ould try to take the hinge bolts off the door!) for my hubby's bike. No one bothers our chickens and I bet they took one look at the chickens and said, no deal!

 

[mamato3]

sorry for your loss i would be scared to. I wish u the best of luck in catching the intruder

 

[panner123]

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Some will tell you rock salt dosen't work, that is not true, ask anyone that has been shot with it. To make it much more effective, remove all the shot from the shell. Now pack in all the rock that will fit. After doing this dampen the rock salt, don't pour water on it, for that will cause the powder to get wet. What I do is take an empty shell fill it with rock salt and doampen it a number of times. This causes it to from as a solid pellet. I cut away the shell and place it in the shell I inten on using. I have to trim away some of the rock salt for it to fit. Camp the shell back over it and it works up to 10 yards. As I have stated before, anyone not believeing this will not sting like the devil, is welcome to stand in front of me and give it a try. It breaks the skin and the salt dissolves, ouch. Next time you have an open cut pour some salt on it, yup that is what it fiils like.

 

[CottageChicken22]

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LOL. Hope you find the villain.

 

[SproutGirl]

I am so sorry to hear about your hen and the invaision of your home sanctity. Don't give up. You can keep scum-bags like this away from your family and pets. In fact, it may have just been some drunk moron who may not return. Do you have a dog? Maybe you could get a dog to scare away creeps like this. Some jerk might think twice about hurting your hen if he had an angry and protective dog gnawing on his @$$!

We once super glued some upholstry tacks to the bottom part of our backdoor doorknob after someone tried to break into our house one night. He persistantly tried to force the door open, despite my pounding on the door and yelling at him to go away. He stayed there the whole time we were on the phone to 911 and until the police came--nothing we did scared him off. We figured that with his persistance and his not caring that we were awake and aware of his presence, he must have been more intent on committing an act of violence than on robbing us. (2 young gay females living together can attract violent psychopaths, unfortunately.) Anyway, frightened that he would come back, we set traps to alert us to his presence, one being the tacks on the bottom of the doorknob. We also kept a large crow bar near the door in case his yelps of pain alerted us to his persence. Living in fear stinks. Luckily, this garbage happened just before we closed on our 1st house, and we were out of there before he returned. We promptly got a large dog with a deep bark who alerts us to any strange sound outside our home once we moved. He never bothers our chickens. And we feel safer with him around. We also keep bells on our doorknobs, and we lock our chicken coop at night.

I hope you and your family will be safe.

 

[Chicabee19]

Oh - we keep bells on our doors too!....

Mostly so we'll know if our 5-yr-old DGD tries to open an outside door by herself.

A few days ago she went outside at her daddy's house w/o permission, so I'm really glad we have those bells.

I also have a small but very clear-sounding wind chime hanging from a shelf just 2 steps inside our back sliding door. Anytime you walk by it, it chimes.

Back when I was really afraid of one particular person, I stacked empty coke cans up against several of our doors. Someone opens the door - it makes a lot of racket. This works well especially with sliding-glass doors, garden gates, etc...

 

[Zookeeper9000]

I have bells on my doors as well but they are for the dogs to let me know they have to go out.


I am so sorry that your family is living in fear. I too would be upset for the chicken but would be more afraid of what they were planning for my family. Saying prayers for you and yours to stay safe.

 

[MagsC]

I like the bells idea.

 

[brandywine]

Hint. Desperado professional crooks do not break into chicken houses and steal single hens (market value <$10), stopping to ineptly re-latch the cage door.

My money is on your chickie showing up in the junior high gym teacher's office, in the chemistry teacher's desk drawer, or running around the opposing team's locker room.

But by all means, shoot to kill, because you definitely want to live with yourself after murdering your neighbor's pranking teenage kid in the dark. I bet the kid's family and the authorities will totally agree that it was so worth it. You just have to make an example, ya know? All the people who are recommending the reflexive use of deadly force as revenge for chicken theft have, of course, thoroughly considered all the potential outcomes and repercussions, and only have your best interests, and those of your neighbors and fellow-citizens, at heart.

 

[EweSheep]

Thanks Panner I will forward it to my hubby!

Someone tried to break in our van last night.......the neighbors dogs raise such a ruckus and I didn't look out to see who was out there. Its not the only time it happened but first time a long time since we bought a new van. They didnt take anything, looked like it was just searching in glove box and nothing in value in the car seat either. Dunno what they were looking for. Had several car alarms going off last night as well. Looks like a bunch of teenagers with nothing to do.