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Loughlayesterday at 9:01 PM4 repliesview on HN

If not a fox, a raccoon can.

Here's my fun everything likes to eat chickens story. When we first built our house, nobody had ever lived within about 2 miles of our farm. There were coyotes everywhere. So I spent a couple years trapping and shooting them after they ate a couple of my chickens. Then came the racoons. They ate some chickens so back to trapping and shooting. Then weasels and minks. Except they could get into the coop through the windows in the wall that were covered in wire and 6' off the ground. So, more traps. Now it's bobcats. Oh, and don't forget the stupid red-tailed hawks and BALD FUCKING EAGLES as well. No trapping or shooting those bastards.

Everything. Everything eats chickens. I'm surprised I haven't seen a damn frog eating one of them.


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Tempest1981yesterday at 9:47 PM

I enjoyed this movie:

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Biggest_Little_Farm

Similar challenges, but attempts at natural solutions (not easy, so much complexity)

Trailer: https://youtube.com/watch?v=UfDTM4JxHl8

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semerdayesterday at 9:50 PM

Do you have a rooster to help fight the chaos?

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TurdF3rgusonyesterday at 11:39 PM

The first week after we got chickens my wife comes to me upset and tells me one of them died overnight. Apparently it's covered in slime and neither of us knows what to make of that.

A few days later it happens again. Huh, so she asks some locals what the heck is going on. It turns out a big snake was getting in there and eating the chicken, but then he was too fat to get back out of the coop so he had to barf it up to escape.

kiddicoyesterday at 9:14 PM

Jesus. You bought what sounds like a beautiful place and murdered your way to a couple dozen eggs...

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