What got my chickens **GRAPHIC**

[pioneerchick816]

Sorry for your loss

Man! I'm just sick for you

I'm doing some reinforcing tomorrow!!

 

[homestead 101]

Ya I got to do a lot of that.

 

[centrarchid]

It is easy to force something through a hole in chicken wire.

 

[homestead 101]

Just letting u guys know that at 5 in the morning today my rooster went off and my dad heard branches breaking in the the woods. Don't know if any more chickens got hurt

 

[aart]

Just letting u guys know that at 5 in the morning today my rooster went off and my dad heard branches breaking in the the woods. Don't know if any more chickens got hurt

Deer...the branch crashing, not the chicken eating.

Was your coop door open when the chicken slaughter happened?

 

[birdwrangler057]

I know this is out of the ordinary, but "chicken wire" is the the worst thing to use on a chicken coop, you can tear it like paper. it should be called "garden wire."

 

[AllynTal]

It was only a small hole in the chicken wire

I'm looking at the pictures, and I see a great big gap. First, understand that chicken wire is good to keep chickens in (or out, depending on the application), but it does nothing to keep anything else out. For predators, it's just a minor inconvenience on their way to dinner. In the picture, that wire doesn't look like it is secured to that baseboard, so a predator and all his predator friends just pull the wire out and slip under it. Instead of chicken wire, use 1/2-inch hardware cloth and secure it every inch or so. It's a much smaller mesh wire and a whole lot sturdier than chicken wire. Also understand that a good-sized predator can get through a very small gap in perimeter defenses. A hole as small as a quarter (U.S. currency coin) is big enough to let a predator in that can decimate your flock. A 2-inch gap is plenty of space to let in a raccoon and all his raccoon buddies.

 

[aart]

I know this is out of the ordinary, but "chicken wire" is the the worst thing to use on a chicken coop, you can tear it like paper. it should be called "garden wire."

Well, it keeps chickens in or out........it's not 'predator wire'.....haha!

 

[homestead 101]

No more chickens got hurt, and what ever coop I build from now on will have hardware cloth to protect my chickens. I have decided to wait till the spring time to expand my flock.

 

[ShanandGem]

You can very often get rolls of welded wire fencing cheap at auctions. I do chicken wire with a layer of welded wire over top and nothing gets in or out.