sudden end to freedom ranger experiment

[happyhensny]

We lost 33 CX's to Coons a couple weeks ago - 10 days till butcher!

 

[dancingbear]

How disheartening! So sorry for your loss.

I once lost about 14 birds to what I think was a weasel, in one night. It got into the coop and wiped out a bunch, including my best dark Cornish broody hen. We found where it got in, and fixed the spot, and set a trap out, but it never came back. In about 15 years of raising chickens, that only happened once. Raccoons, and foxes, an occasional dog, only once with the weasel.

 

[Beekissed]

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But only if they are 'Coon dogs.... they give a musical bellow and a chase, and soon the end is near with a good shot. All others, well...

My younger Lab/BC mix must have a little quiet coonhound in him.....no bellow, no chase...just one squall of a coon, one bark of the dog and one dead coon on my back porch the next morning. One pleased chicken owner and one big sigh of relief that I can sleep at night without coon predation...or any other, for that matter.

He's an egg-suckin' hound, but I sure do love that dog! He has earned his eggs many times over...

 

[terri9630]

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But only if they are 'Coon dogs.... they give a musical bellow and a chase, and soon the end is near with a good shot. All others, well...

My younger Lab/BC mix must have a little quiet coonhound in him.....no bellow, no chase...just one squall of a coon, one bark of the dog and one dead coon on my back porch the next morning. One pleased chicken owner and one big sigh of relief that I can sleep at night without coon predation...or any other, for that matter.

He's an egg-suckin' hound, but I sure do love that dog! He has earned his eggs many times over...

Our dogs too. They have stopped 3 cats and a hawk and I think they are paying off one of my chickens to not eating the oyster shells so the egg shells are paper thin. The dogs love those.

 

[Buster52]

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But only if they are 'Coon dogs.... they give a musical bellow and a chase, and soon the end is near with a good shot. All others, well...

My younger Lab/BC mix must have a little quiet coonhound in him.....no bellow, no chase...just one squall of a coon, one bark of the dog and one dead coon on my back porch the next morning.

Yup, my dogs, too. If they didn't eat it first.

I figure there are too many dogs that are all bark and not much bite.