Shane Posted May 19, 2015 Share Posted May 19, 2015 As weird as it sounds, its true. I despair of what things have come to here in the UK and seriously wonder what makes people tick nowadays. Got up this morning for work and looked out the window to see a mass of feathers in the run. First thoughts was oh shit I have left the coup flap up and a fox has got in. Opened the coup expecting to see 3 dead birds and there were none! Some bright knob has come into our yard and helped themselves to our 3 hens and the eggs that would have accumulated since Sunday when I last collected them. And then to add insult to injury they left a calling card and crapped in the gateway. There are so many feathers around I can only hope they didn't suffer too much, but it doesn't look good. One old girl was a rescue battery hen too and she was lovely. My daughter used to love feeding them treats, god knows how we explain this to a four year old. We have 3 more young birds that hatched over Easter and fortunately they were indoors or I guess they would have gone too. So now we have all the nonsense of making sure everything is secure, alarms, lights etc to attend to. As if watching benefit street last night wasn't enough! Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
C_Strike Posted May 19, 2015 Share Posted May 19, 2015 Oh maan. That really sucks. They may just be chickens but you definitely get an attachment to them. Id be fuming if It happened to mine, sad thing is theres nothing that you can really do. I hate people:-( Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Havard Posted May 19, 2015 Share Posted May 19, 2015 Awful when someone invades your private space and takes anything. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
David P Posted May 19, 2015 Share Posted May 19, 2015 That's a wind-up! Put a Foghorn-Leghorn Cock in there, he'd teach them a lesson if they came back. https://drawception.com/pub/panels/2012/5-30/zzDOFn77Ce-2.png Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
cered Posted May 20, 2015 Share Posted May 20, 2015 Shotgun licences are cheap... And a semi-auto Beretta is an extremely fine weapon... Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
skippyboyo1 Posted May 20, 2015 Share Posted May 20, 2015 http://www.mkivsupra.net/vbb/showthread.php?304552-Nxt-doors-chickens-stolen! Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Shane Posted May 20, 2015 Author Share Posted May 20, 2015 http://www.mkivsupra.net/vbb/showthread.php?304552-Nxt-doors-chickens-stolen! Amazing isn't it. One of the old duffers who lives by me reckons he saw two lads around 15-17 yrs of age hanging around my place early evening, he also said he saw them pelting it past his house around half 9 in the evening. Strange as the missus thought she heard something about then and went out to look, but saw nothing. So now we are wondering if she disturbed them and then they came back during the night. Whole thing is making my piss boil at the moment, have added my garden gate on a spare zone of the house alarm and made it much much more secure now so should someone open it at night at least we will know. Have a camera/DVR on order too. Was wondering how effective alarm PIRs are outside in an enclosed garden, I guess they would activate pretty much the same as floodlight PIRs and cats and large birds etc will set it off? Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
trebor69 Posted May 20, 2015 Share Posted May 20, 2015 While we've been on holiday our four chickens and my daughter's two rabbits have been killed, some animal has torn through the wire and broken the roof off the coop and killed everything :-( Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Chris Wilson Posted May 20, 2015 Share Posted May 20, 2015 I have radio PIR sensors, they work fine, only rarely will a fox or badger set one off. They trigger either lights and / or an internal alarm with sensor ID. Range about 100 meters. Can be boosted. http://www.fmelectronics.co.uk/ With your knowledge an intruder proof set up will be easily created. A good and powerful electric fence is a deterrent too, for foxes of course.... Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Supragal Posted May 20, 2015 Share Posted May 20, 2015 No way! Disgusting. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Shane Posted May 20, 2015 Author Share Posted May 20, 2015 While we've been on holiday our four chickens and my daughter's two rabbits have been killed, some animal has torn through the wire and broken the roof off the coop and killed everything :-( Sorry to hear this. In your case it was an animal then? I have radio PIR sensors, they work fine, only rarely will a fox or badger set one off. They trigger either lights and / or an internal alarm with sensor ID. Range about 100 meters. Can be boosted. http://www.fmelectronics.co.uk/ With your knowledge an intruder proof set up will be easily created. A good and powerful electric fence is a deterrent too, for foxes of course.... Great I will look into those then. When I started off with chickens many years ago (Fearnly Whiittinstal's fault) I was sure I needed an electric fence and made one using a simple multivibrator firing a relay circuit in turn pulsing an ignition coil from my daughter's old Fiat Uno that she had killed. Worked a treat. I also used a actuator arm from an old motorised dish on a timer to open and close the hatch on the coup with both set ups powered by the battery from the same car topped up with solar power. I should really do the same now with these birds, but its finding the time that's the issue as I am sure you are well aware. Even more so for you Chris now you have lots of tropo and the chances of Es increasing daily. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Shane Posted May 20, 2015 Author Share Posted May 20, 2015 No way! Disgusting. Yep sure is. It's worrying isn't it Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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