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Community => Coffee Lounge => Topic started by: spandit on August 24, 2014, 09:05:00 pm

Title: Think your chickens are safe during the day?
Post by: spandit on August 24, 2014, 09:05:00 pm

Check out the time stamp on this video I got on my trailcam:

http://youtu.be/IdNb2vBwQbI (http://youtu.be/IdNb2vBwQbI)

Title: Re: Think your chickens are safe during the day?
Post by: smiley bucket on August 24, 2014, 09:08:44 pm

Have you never seen the vermin out in daytime? Sunning themselves or p
The cubs playing?  They are so humanised these days they sit in the field looking at you looking at them and won't move till you chase.  Hope youve a gun or a local who will get rid and protect your poultry!

Title: Re: Think your chickens are safe during the day?
Post by: mojocafa on August 24, 2014, 09:10:08 pm

Hope it didn't get lunch at yours

Title: Re: Think your chickens are safe during the day?
Post by: doganjo on August 24, 2014, 09:25:23 pm

My son sees them playing in his back garden. neighbours feeding them - until he yells out the window to eff off.

Title: Re: Think your chickens are safe during the day?
Post by: Fleecewife on August 24, 2014, 09:44:44 pm

No I don't think our chickens are safe during the day  >:(  Our last fox attack was at lunchtime, 7 or 8 killed and strewn around the place, and I saw the fox all puffed out and sunning itself with a full belly in our orchard.  Oh if only I'd had my catapult in my back pocket.
That's not the first day time incident here either, sometimes one will pick off one hen a week til they're all gone, or we've had mass kills as well  :rant:

Title: Re: Think your chickens are safe during the day?
Post by: plumseverywhere on August 25, 2014, 09:37:49 am

Mine were killed at lunchtime, feet away from a neighbour who tried to scare the fox off.   Other day I went into our sheep field (11am) and 3 foxes ran out of the bushes. 

Title: Re: Think your chickens are safe during the day?
Post by: john and helen on August 25, 2014, 04:17:22 pm

Seen plenty during the day….thats why they are known as cunning,

Title: Re: Think your chickens are safe during the day?
Post by: Bramblecot on August 25, 2014, 07:00:28 pm

0900 in garden >:( , 1000 on porch :o , as soon as one is shot another takes it's place :rant: .
Then I caught a Jack Russell killing one so not just the fox to blame :'(

Title: Re: Think your chickens are safe during the day?
Post by: sabrina on August 25, 2014, 07:04:28 pm

I had one take a hen at 11am a couple of years ago. Right in front of my stable building that I was mucking out.