This is what a raccoon can do to wire

[Stumpy]

Whoa! That's incredible. Thanks for sharing that.

 

[augustmomx2]

Holy Smokes! Those things are much stronger than I ever anticipated

 

[ducks4you]

I THINK this thread might be moved to "Predators and Pests"

A N Y W A Y , I'm SSSOOOOOO GGGLLLAAADDD that my next door neighbor hates coons even more than me!!

He shot 2 juvenile coons last weekend that had been ripping up his crawlspace. He HAS had a family of coons living in his attic, where they came downstairs one night and untied the metal on his suspended ceiling. Farmers have had their good dogs drowned by raccoons.

I say, Arm all chicken owners, so that we can decrease the surplus population, (instead of sending them to 'Dicken's poor-houses')

...a little bit of 19th century British literary humour...

 

[rancher hicks]

Seems to me there is only so far a person can go to protect their chickens. If they really want in they'll find a way don't ya think? These posts just scare the daylights out of me and make me regret getting chickens. If I told my wife I changed my mind about getting chickens and sold them all she would have a fit, what with all the money I've spent. Thanks alot!
These posts really !@#$%^ me off. Now I won't sleep tonight. I wake up and worry and go out in the middle of the night just check on my birds already!

 

[jupitergirl]

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GOTTA LOVE CHICKEN ANXIETY....

WE ALL SUFFER FROM IT. Oh my first egg was a $4,000 egg!

 

[rancher hicks]

You aren't even remotely funny!

 

[MyTDogs]

Wow, this is scary. I have dogs- no chix yet- but it almost makes me afraid to get them. I hate to think that the chickens will attract these kinds of predators. I will be afraid to let my dogs out at night for fear of what they might meet up with near the coop.

Will an electric wire help? How many & how high? Do you think that will keep them from trying? Or will they always be skulking around out there?

I met a chicken breeder who lives only a few miles from me who said that he has bobcats! taking his birds. Can one get a LGD (Anatolian or Maremma?) for chickens??

Cindy
scared in FL ('

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[rancher hicks]

If I had known about this site before I got chickens I never would have gotten them. I also think when the ones I got go I won't be replacing them. Thanks folks!

 

[MyTDogs]

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REALLY??!!!?? I am [kind of] surprised to hear that. Have you recently lost some to predators?

Cindy (who just watched the news report about a Bobcat living in some neighborhood in Melbourne (FL)!killing cats.

 

[Mahonri]

That is why when a raccoon is trapped it should be put down and not dropped off miles away to become someone else's problem.