Chicken Lovers! discussion

Racoons....though I love all animals and don't like calling them pest...are a big pest to chickens....they steal and eat them.

Cyotoes, foxes Hawks are a big problem in my area.

I don't own chickens but I study them and see them.
Scientist have proven they are as smart as dogs and cats.

Oh! Cats, dogs and ferrets are problems too.

Where I live bears,bobncats,foxes,hawks,cyotes, and fisher cats are a big problem so we would never be able to let our chickens rome free.

It's called free ranging. You probably could everyonce in a while.

We some times let are chickens out but they scratch big holes in the flower beds. Also the can only be out in the day time because we have lot of animals that kill in are aria. One time a great horned owl cut through the top mesh in the genie pen and cut the head off one of the guineas. The owl also killed my two geese and a duck and it almost killed another goose but some how it got away with a scar on its head.

Dang, owls are one of my fave animals and they hurt your animals....sorry about that!

The owl was just doing what it had to too survive. I still like owls there cool animals. :-)

I know! But still...sorry to hear that.

Awwww.

One time we caught a raccoon in a trap, we welled it up to the barn in a wagon, and set it there for a few minutes. Well wall the raccoon stood up in the trap and he started to roll down the hill. (lol) You should have seen the look on it's face, it was a little bit of an evil look, I think. Well we ended up loading the raccoon up in the car, trap in all, and haling him about thirty miles down the road were we let him go.

lol.

And the raccoon was really cute too he would just look at you and blink his eyes. :-)

AWWW!