We lost 10 chickens yesterday (or nine and 1/2 )as one is holding on by a thread. Midday massacres which seem to be increasing as Fall settles in or perhaps they are hungry and more bold. I like the suggestions about the coops and surroundings being fortified with wire that goes underground for fast diggers. We thought we had found the solution of playing NPR throughout the day for entertaining the chickens and discouraging the foxes, but yesterday it did not work. Perhaps the radio was playing too softly. Open to other ideas...and learning to tolerate the notion that the world is not always save and that critters need food too.
We lost 10 chickens yesterday (or nine and 1/2 )as one is holding on by a thread. Midday massacres which seem to be increasing as Fall settles in or perhaps they are hungry and more bold. I like the suggestions about the coops and surroundings being fortified with wire that goes underground for fast diggers. We thought we had found the solution of playing NPR throughout the day for entertaining the chickens and discouraging the foxes, but yesterday it did not work. Perhaps the radio was playing too softly. Open to other ideas...and learning to tolerate the notion that the world is not always save and that critters need food too.