Predators Archives - Life is Better with Chickens https://betterwithchickens.com/category/predators/ Triumph (and sometimes trouble) at the henhouse Sun, 01 Oct 2023 20:16:57 +0000 en-US hourly 1 https://betterwithchickens.com/wp-content/uploads/2023/03/cropped-cropped-p_egg-rotated-1-32x32.jpg Predators Archives - Life is Better with Chickens https://betterwithchickens.com/category/predators/ 32 32 Lang, the Fox, and a bit about Chicken Predators https://betterwithchickens.com/lang-the-fox-and-chicken-predators/ https://betterwithchickens.com/lang-the-fox-and-chicken-predators/#respond Tue, 03 Oct 2023 06:00:17 +0000 https://betterwithchickens.com/?p=328 It was a late August afternoon. I was on the phone with a friend when I heard a wild cacophony of clucking and bah-gawking circling the house. I looked out the side porch and saw the silver blur of Lang dart by, and then what my eye-brain synapses decided was (taking in a big fluffy...

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]]> https://betterwithchickens.com/lang-the-fox-and-chicken-predators/feed/ 0 Lady the Chicken and the Red-Tailed Hawk https://betterwithchickens.com/lady-the-chicken-and-the-red-tailed-hawk/ https://betterwithchickens.com/lady-the-chicken-and-the-red-tailed-hawk/#respond Tue, 25 Apr 2023 06:00:44 +0000 https://betterwithchickens.com/?p=212 The first thing you’ll probably notice after a predator threatens your chickens—they all disappear. I mean absolutely all of them and I mean absolutely disappeared. Still and silent—not a cluck, feather, or a shadow to be seen. This was what we found on an afternoon in October 2021. Where the girls had all just been...

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