- Mar 12, 2013
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Two nights ago a bear broke into our chicken run and killed ten chickens. He ripped the chicken wire from the coop and in some parts tore the wire apart. He killed and left six and took four with him. The ones left dead he had either ripped the heads off or flattened. I have seven left alive - all of them the oldest ones I own (about five months old). He broke a window and left bloody claw marks on the wall of the coop. I really cant imagine the trauma those chickens suffered as the carnage alone was enough to leave me depressed and traumatized - and I worked on an ambulance for almost a decade.
It's been over 100 here for most of the last week so I think Im partly to blame because I left the doors to the coop open but the run door shut. i always have the coop doors shut at night but the windows open. I cant help but think there was more of the chicken coop smell wafting thru the air than their normally is just with the windows open and the bear thought it'd be easy pray since the doors were open for him.
Needless to say, I'm pretty upset. I lost all of my rare breed chickens: my two Blue Laced Red Wyandottes, my Blue Silkie, my Blue Andulusian, my two Giant Blue Cochins, and a bunch of others. My Blue Laced Red Wyandottes and Blue Andulusian and Blue Cochins had awesome and perfect coloring and I dont know wher I'll get replacements this late in the year as so many places are sold out. Amd my oldest Blue Cochin had the sweetest most laid back personality. She was just perfect. I'm just sad.
So, needless to say, I slept in the room closest to the coop with the windows open and my shotgun and my rifle by my side. I also installed an electric wire fence and smeared peanut butter all over it (that was fun in 103 degree weather).
If anyone has any othef tips for bears thatd be great. I will look again through the threads for more suggestions but Im really looking for something that mightve worked for someone that maybe hasnt been mentioned already, in case the ele tric fence doesn't work.
It's been over 100 here for most of the last week so I think Im partly to blame because I left the doors to the coop open but the run door shut. i always have the coop doors shut at night but the windows open. I cant help but think there was more of the chicken coop smell wafting thru the air than their normally is just with the windows open and the bear thought it'd be easy pray since the doors were open for him.
Needless to say, I'm pretty upset. I lost all of my rare breed chickens: my two Blue Laced Red Wyandottes, my Blue Silkie, my Blue Andulusian, my two Giant Blue Cochins, and a bunch of others. My Blue Laced Red Wyandottes and Blue Andulusian and Blue Cochins had awesome and perfect coloring and I dont know wher I'll get replacements this late in the year as so many places are sold out. Amd my oldest Blue Cochin had the sweetest most laid back personality. She was just perfect. I'm just sad.
So, needless to say, I slept in the room closest to the coop with the windows open and my shotgun and my rifle by my side. I also installed an electric wire fence and smeared peanut butter all over it (that was fun in 103 degree weather).
If anyone has any othef tips for bears thatd be great. I will look again through the threads for more suggestions but Im really looking for something that mightve worked for someone that maybe hasnt been mentioned already, in case the ele tric fence doesn't work.
