Urgent Advice Needed (cats Attacking My Hens And Ducks)

[ernndbrtt]

I talked with our game control officer after I spotted a coyote a few hundred yards from our property a week after our chicks went outside and he told me that I was ok to shoot any coyotes, cats, or anything else on our property that would be attacking our chickens because in the eyes of the law, protecting your live stock is allowed. Of course depending upon where you live, you may ordinances or regulations that prevent you from discharging a firearm, but that's another story altogether. In that case you could check into a high powered pellet gun. Our run is now fully enclosed including the top because we also have predatory birds, hawks, bald eagles, and great horned owls here that did kill a neighbors chickens two summers ago.