i'm gonna show you how to identify who killed your chicken and there's a lot of choices here folks and i'm a narrow all those possibilities down to just two ok so what did this was it a snake a
keeping snakes out of chicken coop, tiger a fox a raccoon a skunk a possum a possum or was this a bafeemus a cat a human being a feral pig a weasel a wolf a hawk an eagle an owl a turkey?
oh no way not a turkey how'd that get in here pretty much everybody and their brother eats a chicken so you're at the kill and you know now what all the different possibilities are to kill chicken and i didn't even mention them all just mentioned most of them and you want to read this kill to get a better idea who did this
i've got a few questions you can ask yourself to help narrow it down the first question you can ask is did it happen during the day or the night if it happened during the night which you'll see most of these animals attack at night night time kills out wolf we saw a coyote possum skunk rackin rat and the tiger
next up are those animals that could have done it during the day or the night i'm sorry and how it's tricky ok the sasquatch the human being the feral pig about fema rare but in reality a snake oh and don't forget buster the dog he even a friendliest doc we've we've had neighbors as close as their and their
say both cases hey this dog is never attacked a chicken don't worry about it in both cases those friendly little max's and busters and what else to call it off bandit attacked our chickens i don't care how domestic is deep in their grain that that's what they do they kill and eat meat and buster the
dog he can attack at night or day listen as you see most everybody can tack at night so if you can secure your chickens at night you're probably going to cut down on 95 or more percent of your predator problem and even the ones that did their exec attack during the day could attack at night oh i almost forgot there are a couple
that just attack during the day i'm going to call it eagle and the hawk ok now suppose you come out to your chickens and you count them and somebody's missing and there's no sign now if everybody was up in the coop and the doors shot back and lock still at definitely leaves just one predator this human being
was that a huge black mullet on that guy riding a beach cruiser at this hour in the morning weird so you see human beings can be some of the trickiest predators to catch because they're so smart and they've got those thumbs and they can shut hatches and shut off electric fences and climb over them all that kind of stuff but
otherwise if you just have a chicken missing no feathers no guts no nothing it could be a sasquatch snake alley eaglehawk coyote pig bear tiger or wolf if it's a small chick that's missing add snake to that list they swallow those things hold another question you can ask is your chicken mangled or partially eaten gone where it's going to be able
to start to narrow down here mangled there's not too many suspects for that i'm gonna put a weasel on there they are vicious they will kill many it's like they killed them for sport and they might be taking some also a rat it's not necessarily mangled but maybe even nibbled on
i mean they might kill a small chick but the adults i've heard this never happened to me that they can nibble unlike the legs and stuff and mother on the roost and then of course max the dog they've they still have that instinct to kill but they just don't necessarily eat it so it's kind of incomplete instinct
there i guess oh in the crow oh let me show you that we had some crows get some of our chicks look roll it ok something bad has happened guys it involves mama's chicks incubator chicks they're out on the grass and if even if gets bother you you might want to fast-forward this next part
ok alright for all the rest to you i gotta show this the good bad and the ugly yeah i looked out the window and i could see chicks laying there get hanging out okay this is bad there's one two three four five six chicks gone that has never happened to us actually
because look look behind me that's our door this is in our front yard and my first instinct is hot but i'm thinking is a hawk really going to land on jumped on it hasn't in the past i've been doing this for years now it was strange if just a few minutes ago as i came out here to fix this thing i saw a crow
landing right here and i wonder if these are small enough for a crow at the very least i'm going to take the lesson learned and always keep this covered ok kids learn from me in that crazy who knew oh and there's one more oliver the cat i know i know it's hard to believe your sweet little oliver could attack your chickens yes probably not
your adult chickens but you're younger chickens yes more so more likely if you've got a barn cat a feral cat something like that so just be careful we have gotten some cats from the pound to cut down on the mice population and one day i came out walking to do some chores and i saw a cat on top of a
chicken somewhere right in there we had been missing some chickens several days before but didn't have any idea what was getting they were just there they were mangled there was some things gone but i caught that cat in the act munching on my little chicks now they were not the very tiny once they were not the full groans they're the ones
that i like to call the teenagers so the teenagers maybe 12 weeks or younger you gotta really watch out no no don't don't don't get mad at me it's a true story no no had gone another question is the head gone and maybe some of the innards can narrow that down to four we get closer guys to pin this down raccoon and
that would have happened at night it could have been an hour and that what happened at night especially if your birds bigger lol is not going to carried away if your bird smaller it could totally be gone in there might be some feathers there if it happened during the day we're talking about a hawk again if this if it was real small it could have
carried away and most of my cases the hawk has left it there also during the day the eagle probably the number one predator for me is the hawk i've had hawks i probably been this close to the chickens well maybe a little further maybe a little further down here and walking by
just fed on the chickens were distracted and not hot with who come down killed that bird i got close enough it flew away other times i've had hawks fly right in when i've had static oops right into the coop and kill those birds on spot another aerial predator we've been having problems with at night is the al at
first i thought it was maybe a possum the head was gone the guts were out that's a sign of the possible get to that in a second but then i realized defense is really strong so i don't think that it was a land predator must be narrow printer it was outlook oh gosh no so yes even the aerial flying cousins of
the chicken will take them down it's a vicious world especially if you're chicken ask yourself this our guts hanging on all over the place high on that suspicionless would be the weasel for the possum hey are your birds gone and there's just feathers left for that you want to
suspect the wolf although it can be gone they might leave some feathers behind the struggle depends on what kind of struggle was that's the case and all these the coyote the fox the tiger and a feral pig and was there just blood and nothing else of the magic but unfortunate work of the themis and what about eggs what if your eggs are
completely gone think snake and if your eggs are cracked open and the insides gone that's probably a skunk or maybe even a chicken eating their own eggs snakes are pretty ruthless had one eat nine chicks once when they were small and in the murder it was nuts i've also caught him getting eggs i've
also caught a snake getting a fake that was rough at bat that win well i've also had a snaky slightly bigger one alive you get my he's got his mouth for over 20 my word i got six feet long and another time a snake got ahold of a broody hand an adult him tried to swallow some mustard suffocated and killed it a full of dough
i must have got it the whole neck was wet the snake got down in there and you could tell he had to stop but it killed the chicken snake couldn't swallow it that was a disappointment oh no what happened here is the lady that's been sitting on the ducks one doug eggs crushed gone she's there on one piece clearly dead
i've not seen anything like that this neck is soaked and nothing else is gone what if you come upon a kill and nothing seems to have happened there's no mangle there's no struggle doesn't seem like and maybe the face is a little bit blue it could have been self-destruction i had one do that on me
his heart just gave out oh my gosh guys somebody got got and it's my main rooster and his face is really purple so we're going to look into that and figure out what's the matter so sometimes they're killing themselves they're just dying for whatever reason that's a lot of possibilities for killing your chickens but listen i can
narrow it down to adjust to everything i name can fit into two categories that's all you got to worry about wasn't an attack from the air or was it attack from land aerial predators vs. land predators that's all there is all those fit within those two categories hey listen i hope you enjoyed that video now you have a better idea of
what in the world got your chicken we kinda like to know those things it's pretty important but listen i have a second part of this video if you're interested if you're interested in prevention when i which i think is the most important even if you don't know what got your chicken you can still prevent i have 12 different ideas for
doing that i'm going to give you it if it to you for free i'll give you more information on that down below in the description i talk about things as simple as just shutting them up at night and then or managing an electric poultry now or how about having a goose to guard the flock is that's a lot of fun activity
i've got one of those is just works out wonderful so if you're interested in that and taking it to the next level and preventing it not just knowing what did
it although that's useful if you want to stop it go ahead and check that out in the description
