Comments on: How I Failed My Flock By Not Protecting Them From Predators https://acrelife.com/how-i-failed-my-flock-by-not-protecting-them-from-predators Grow, Raise, Preserve Mon, 02 Oct 2023 22:39:38 +0000 hourly 1 By: Stephanie https://acrelife.com/how-i-failed-my-flock-by-not-protecting-them-from-predators#comment-2908 Mon, 02 Oct 2023 22:39:38 +0000 http://acrelife.com/?p=103#comment-2908 In reply to Stephanie.

I am so sorry to hear that. It is the absolute worst feeling! The only reassuring thing I can tell you is that it is better to only find a pile of feathers than it is to find an injured chicken. That was so hard to try to nurse a chicken back to health. Take the winter to make your repairs and start over in the spring!

]]> By: Stephanie https://acrelife.com/how-i-failed-my-flock-by-not-protecting-them-from-predators#comment-2906 Sun, 01 Oct 2023 18:40:33 +0000 http://acrelife.com/?p=103#comment-2906 How we failed our flock…..I didn’t lock the chickens up at night. I should have but I didn’t. I left the chicken coop open. That was on me!
And my husband should have fixed the hole in the chicken run. He put the wire fence under ground. To keep predators out, but rain made the fence rust. So it separated. That was on him!
The fox came one early morning and got all 8 of my chickens. 7 hens (4 of them where only 14 weeks old) and 1 rooster. All he left behind was feathers.
I’m still upset about it. It just happened recently.
But maybe I’ll get some more chickens next spring!

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