~sniffle~

[gailmom.livejournal.com]

This is so frustrating! Two more dead chickens. One of the older ladies taken (just feathers left), the other killed and the corpse left in the pen, just ripped open the neck, ate that, and left everything else.

What a fucking waste! We can't even eat it, because it was dead long enough to be stiff.

Dammit dammit dammit.

never build your own pen if you are an amateur, it's just not as secure. I can see where a...something...with small paws dug near the gate of the little girls pen, but failed to get in...and then it (or something else) broke in the roof of the homemade pen.

Fuck it. I'm investing in a bigger store bought version, and taking apart the homemade pen. I'm tired of losing my ladies.

~helpless growling sob~

Comments

[gryphynshadow.livejournal.com]

aw, that really stinks!

poor chickens, and poor you, too. hugs...

[siria13.livejournal.com]

I'm sorry its really awful to go out in the morning and find this kind of mayhem. This sounds just like the work of racoons, we have lost a number of chickens and the scene is always just like this. Do they allow trapping in your area? We've succesfully trapped 8-9 racoons. If it is a racoon and you were sucessfully able to trap it you could make your chickens safe again at least until some other coon moves in, you would also at least know what you are up against. After a year we have finally quit lossing chickens to racoons. It has taken double reinforcing the coop, trapping the racoons and adding geese to the barn yard to act as sentinals at night to keep our chickens safe.

Good luck, a sturdy more secure coop sounds like a very good idea.

[laughingturtle.livejournal.com]

I'll bet you money that it's a raccoon. You can call the animal shelter and ask them to put a live trap out in your yard to try and catch it. It doesn't cost anything and it might work...raccoons are tricky buggers. They will reach through and pull the hens right up to the fence and behead them or eat them while they sleep (chickens are heavy sleepers).

Good luck, sugar. I'd love to loan you a goat (we have a very mini male right now that would work great), but I doubt that would go over well with the neighbors. It's a pity because goats are great at deterring predators in the chicken pen.

[gailmom.livejournal.com]

If it gets into the current pen, or gets a chicken that way, I'm probably gonna ask to borrow a goat. The neighbors can kiss my ass. Hopefully by the time they figured it out and animal control came to tell me to return it to you, we will have taught the raccoon to leave our yard the hell alone.

Bean is here tonight, hopefully that will help.

Fucking coons.

Seriously thinking of getting geese. Just have to check and make sure they are legal in town.

[dirtwitch.livejournal.com]

OMG! I am so sorry... I just put my ducklings outside and am worried about them as well... SO frustrating. Hugs to you, and geese sounds great, IF the neighbors don't mind the noise and they are legal.
love!