What’s worse???

[Butterscotchbitesfinger]

I find as long as my chickens are covered up at night they tend to survive really well. I don’t have a big issue with the owls around here but I do dislike hawks and foxes.....
Anyway we just bought a run to keep our chickens safe

 

[Abriana]

I personally vote weasels. They will kill based on movement, not hunger. They can fit into spaces as tiny as 1 inch and they can wipe out a flock of twenty in one night. At least other predators are just hungry and want a meal, these little are little devils. Luckily I have never had a problem with them but I am always checking my coop for tiny spaces.

 

[BantyChooks]

I voted weasels, but dog or maybe bear would be my pick. Dogs because they strike during the day, and make the birds have to stay penned, which makes them stir crazy, and bears because they can just smash right through your coop if they want to. Weasels are terrible, but you can stop them with hardware cloth. I have a few hawk attacks per year but my birds are pretty wary and can escape most of the dives from the little beasties.

 

[itsasmallfarm]

where i live in Canada we have very few foxes so i have no idea how bad they are, due to the fact we have so many coyotes there to the point its open season year round, and for us trappers there worth a lot of money

raccoons are really bad, smart and strong, i just trapped a 30 lb coon a few days ago. (yes i weighted it) they have killed a few flocks of my grandparent's chickens years go.

weasels not sure i just trap them during season but there blood thirsty.

mink are just really a bigger water weasel caught one last year trying to get into our coop, lot of people have mink issues here.

but then we also have the odd cougar, bear (black), lynx and bob cats, fisher etc... all fun for keeping animals oh also a pack of wolfs where spotted in my area a few weeks ago lol.

 

[Hobbits Mommie]

I am so glad we dont have the predatores that you have in USA. We have foxes, snakes, some rats from time to time but nothing compared to what you have to contend with. You do a fantastic job it seems keeping them away. I always thought racoons were cute little things but not any more. Good luck to you all.

And in my part of the country we also have bears, alligators, bob cats and...panthers. However, I've only had one casualty and it was a baby chick to a rat. My neighbor on the other hand has been losing a full grown turkey pretty much every night for a week to a bob cat.

 

[4 Georgia Hens]

I voted hawks. They are the most annoyingly evil creatures! We have one who is currently stalking my hens.
We live in a place where we have TONS of hawks because of the mice/rat/mole population. It honestly stinks. Ugg

 

[MissChick@dee]

where i live in Canada we have very few foxes so i have no idea how bad they are, due to the fact we have so many coyotes there to the point its open season year round, and for us trappers there worth a lot of money

raccoons are really bad, smart and strong, i just trapped a 30 lb coon a few days ago. (yes i weighted it) they have killed a few flocks of my grandparent's chickens years go.

weasels not sure i just trap them during season but there blood thirsty.

mink are just really a bigger water weasel caught one last year trying to get into our coop, lot of people have mink issues here.

but then we also have the odd cougar, bear (black), lynx and bob cats, fisher etc... all fun for keeping animals oh also a pack of wolfs where spotted in my area a few weeks ago lol.

Dang!

 

[Butterscotchbitesfinger]

Me I am in Australia so I am glad I don’t get half the animals you get

 

[Butterscotchbitesfinger]

I voted weasels, but dog or maybe bear would be my pick. Dogs because they strike during the day, and make the birds have to stay penned, which makes them stir crazy, and bears because they can just smash right through your coop if they want to. Weasels are terrible, but you can stop them with hardware cloth. I have a few hawk attacks per year but my birds are pretty wary and can escape most of the dives from the little beasties.

We have good neighbors in the fact their dogs are well housed and kept on the property, our dogs on the other hand is very good with chickens

 

[Butterscotchbitesfinger]

I have added coyote and opossum and dog for those who suggested
Thanks