Something killed my ducks

[DuckyDonna]

I think that hardware cloth is going to be what you need to do and the good news is that you can just put it right over the chain link fence you've already got. The bad news is that it's horrible to work with but it will keep your babies safe!

 

[hayley3]

Hello all.
I finally put my ducks outside in a chain link fence with a tarp over the top and I fastened some garden cloth over some of the fence not all, which was a huge mistake. I had 2 ducks pass. Now I have 7 left.
I went out this morning to feed the ducks and counted 7 which it didn’t dawn on me at the time that I was missing 2.
So I went to the fence and saw blood on a rock I had blocking a whole at the bottom of one side and I don’t know how whatever animal got my duck through the fence and ate it. There were feathers attached to my fence and the rock was not moved as it was a really big rock, 2 people had to tote it. So blood and feathers on one side of the fence.
Then I went to the other side where I didn’t know was a hole very small wasn’t dug it was just where the fence wasn’t level there were some feathers no blood. I do not know what this could be, I searched to find a body but didn’t see one. Any advise

If you can't find a body it's normally a fox. A fox went into my coop and killed the guinea and then drug it back out through a very small hole. I found blood on the inside wall where it drug it out., just like what you found.

 

[Lacy3816]

So here is the finished pen for my ducks with cloth wire on top wit a tarp to keep predators away and then a hard cloth wire at the bottom with landscape timber screwed together with rocks following. this better work what you guys think??

 

[DuckyDonna]

So here is the finished pen for my ducks with cloth wire on top wit a tarp to keep predators away and then a hard cloth wire at the bottom with landscape timber screwed together with rocks following. this better work what you guys think??

good job on the hwc!

 

[Miss Lydia]

They they have a night time house?

 

[hayley3]

What is cloth wire?
And is the tarp on the side for shade?

 

[Miss Lydia]

Hard ware cloth.

 

[hayley3]

Hard ware cloth.

Oh LOL...

 

[cmobley]

I use a 50 mile fence charger on mine I ran 3 strands of wire around the bottom of the pin I'm in a neighborhood but we do have raccoons,possums,coyotes,foxes and bears. So far the fence was only tested once, whatever it was got hung up in it. Nothing has messed with it since.

 

[Lacy3816]

They they have a night time house?

At the moment this is their house at night I have a canopy top I bought to put on top when it comes.