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Other Hunting => Coyote, Small Game, Varmints => Topic started by: WildfireArcher on January 29, 2010, 12:32:24 PM

Title: ANGRY!
Post by: WildfireArcher on January 29, 2010, 12:32:24 PM: Well had a pack of coyotes come to my house a few days ago while everyone was asleep, but this time they were here for a reason. They dug underneath our chicken coopand got all 14 of our brand new chickens!! We have 4 old ones that are still alive because they roost on the perch we have inside the chicken coop. The other new chickens hadn't been there long enough to figure out they should roost inside. So angry! im sittin out this weekend with aspotlight and bow. Cant wait to stick a few with the old parker wildfire!

-Wildfire
Title: Re: ANGRY!
Post by: Buckmark on January 29, 2010, 12:37:25 PM: That sucks, coons will do that also.
Electric fence around the bottom of the coop can help, or lay some 3ft chainlnk on the ground around the coop so they cant dig in.
Title: Re: ANGRY!
Post by: Buckmark on January 29, 2010, 12:41:23 PM: I also forgot, you can get some solar powerd or shore powered security lights on the coop, that works ok for a bit, i had one rigged so it would trip a light in my barn when a non invited guest was around, worked when i was awake just fine.
Title: Re: ANGRY!
Post by: Hillbilly270 on January 29, 2010, 01:03:46 PM: cant u just buy chickens at the store? :dunno:
Title: Re: ANGRY!
Post by: boneaddict on January 29, 2010, 01:08:46 PM: Not grown ones.... or do you mean the frozen ones.

I hope you get them.
Title: Re: ANGRY!
Post by: Hillbilly270 on January 29, 2010, 01:12:44 PM: i was being a smartass and was talking about frozen ones.
how much does a chicken cost?......one that has a heartbeat
Title: Re: ANGRY!
Post by: bigdave on January 29, 2010, 01:33:17 PM: The buffet is open until further notice. They will be back.

Good luck.

Had coons getting into my chickens last summer. In the summer months, I keep my chickens out in the field in a portable coop I can move with my truck. It has chainlink fencing on it. The coons would reach through with their little devilish hands and grab whatever they could reach. I lost about twelve hens that way over a few nights. Heads on the outside of the fence and headless bodies on the inside. I put a box trap out there baited with a headless corpse. It was too much to resist. The raccoon family was...... "relocated", let's say.

Hillbilly.....It's not so much what they cost but what are they worth. My meat chickens I raise in the summer I sell for $15 each.
My 22 laying hens lay between 3000 and 3200 eggs a year. That is about 750 to 800 dollars a year for the life of that flock. (eggs sell around here for $3 a dozen). At $3 a dozen, the death of 14 chickens could have cost him $1200 to $1300 in egg production alone.

Probably TMI, but there you have it. It's all about perspective.

Dave
Title: Re: ANGRY!
Post by: carpsniperg2 on January 29, 2010, 01:39:11 PM: that sucks, allot of time and money to get them raised. hate yotes so bad. hope you wack some of them.