I WILL BE SURE TO LOCK THEM ALL INSIDE THE COOP EVERY NIGHT. THANK YOU FOR ALL YOUR BLUNT HONESTY!!!!!
--- In CHICKENS-101@yahoogroups.com, "Straight" wrote:
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> DO close and latch the door. I know it's a pain, and you may get away with not doing it now and then, but a determined raccoon will simply tear the siding off the run and bring the family for a nice big chicken dinner. Don't forget the floor. All the hunters know how to dig under the sides.
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> Is the run covered? I've had a young hawk fly right inside. And we had a bear try to take the siding right off the big wooden henhouse one night.
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> You might not lose any at first, maybe not even for a month or so. But sooner or later the local denizens will come visiting. And actually, spring is about the worst time. Just like a mother cat, a mother fox, coon or possum or whatever will be out aggressively hunting for her fast growing and hungry babies.
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> And everybody likes chicken!!
> Besides, they flutter and jump around so delightfully!
> It's just sickening to go out there to visit in the morning and find them all gone, and any eggs, with hardly a sign.
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> Laughing,
> Diane S. -----learned it all the hard way, yes!
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