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aero86:
csi texas lol. i like it
Timo:
Some roosters are very protective of their hens. I have alot of Bantys and boy them guys are serious about anything or anyone bothering them. My guess is something did catch one and he tried to follow to help. Most likely you found him in the direction that the varmit carried her off.
A coon got into our coop last week,and now the banty hens will not go back in...Can't even herd them in. They are now roosting in the trees.
skyarrow:
--- Quote from: Timo on August 17, 2010, 11:27:28 pm ---Some roosters are very protective of their hens. I have alot of Bantys and boy them guys are serious about anything or anyone bothering them. My guess is something did catch one and he tried to follow to help. Most likely you found him in the direction that the varmit carried her off.
A coon got into our coop last week,and now the banty hens will not go back in...Can't even herd them in. They are now roosting in the trees.
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man that sucks tim i hope you get them back in
Tsalagi:
A coon got into the coop. It's saying it's food! ;D Roast raccoon with sweet potatoes!
Hillbilly:
A big red-tail has no problem at all completely toting off a good-sized chicken, I've seen 'em do it before. Foxes will usually carry a chicken off with no trace before stopping to eat it in a safe place, too. Chickens might as well have DORITOS wrote on their backs, because they're the tater chips of the animal world. I kept chickens for many years, and I've lost them to foxes, yotes, bobcats, hawks, owls, skunks, dogs, weasels, possums, coons, wharf rats, minks, and lord knows what else. Your rooster was probably either terrified of whatever got the hen and ran off, or was following the critter trying to protect the hen, one or the other.
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