I woke up to a red day

Imagine all the dividends you will lose on the monthly EGGS profits

This.
Not even sure if it was a racoon just something that size given the hole. Very clean kills. Just like puncture wounds. I guess my OP is wrong, nothing was eaten.

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Chicken vampiric sacrifice

Or just a nigger vampire

It was a weasel, those cute little things looove to kill.

youtu.be/-TMkZzzPZBU

You got weasel hustled.

A ferret

It is the..... El CHUPACABREEEE....

Are you using Joel Salatin's methods?

Buddy you got owned, sorry for your loss. I think you're supposed to dig the fence in the ground on the sides so that those pesky pests can't dig under your link. 10 inches of in-ground fence should do the trick I believe

ow shit they cut through the fucking wire, i did not see that. dayum

ver is the fuckin money lebowskiiiii

ver is the fuckin moneyyyy

weasels are fucking brutal

F

Foxes are notorious for killing for sport.

clearly man-made

who did you anger, favelanon?

mcdonnalds would still make mcnuggets out of those chickens

>2 or even 3 layers of chicken wire *proxy*, >as already said, 10inch underground *deepweb*
>keep *chickens* and sell *eggs*
IRS payed you a visit

Holy shit, the irony

A weasel is too thin to have made that hole in the chicken wire

>weasels store up to 50 corpses
damn

Yeah well for them its in their nature to kill for pleasure.

These were Cornish Cross birds. Quick growing raised for meat only.

Yeah or at least trying to. I would like to go moveable shelter/electric netting in the future but I figured to just stick to the basics for the first crop. I didn't know what types of obstacles I would encounter the first time so I didn't want to invest too much into a failure. It's looking like that was a pretty good idea.

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Chickoneeeeeeeeeeeeeeeect

>for meat only
Could employ this murderous rodent in butchering your chickens. Seems incredibly adept at it.

will they be OK?

I wish this guy had struck a month earlier. So much wasted feed/time.

If anyone is interested in the business side of this...
You can build a chicken-tractor for like $150 + $45ish for feeder/waterer. A 12'x10' pen can hold up to 75 birds (but you will want to start at around 50 unless you have very fertile soil...too much manure will nuke the ground and make it harder for grass to regrow). Each bird costs about $1.50 as day old chicks. You brood them inside on wood shavings for 2-3 weeks.
Then you move them outside to the tractor and move it to fresh grass each day and twice a day for the last 2-3 weeks. It takes about 8 weeks for them to grow to full size. During the outdoors phase, you are using about $40 of feed per week (you can get lower prices and better quality if you bulk order and mix it yourself). It takes maybe 20 minutes a day of maintenece per tractor (if you do them in bulk) between moving the tractor, topping off water and feed (x3 a day).

So the marginal cost per bird is about $8. Let's say certified slaughter is $8...so $16 total. You can sell these pastured birds at 5lbs for $30-$40 so we are looking at a profit margin in the neighborhood of $15 a bird.

So a bare bones investment of around $650 can return $1500... giving you $850 to figure in labor and marketing (both of which scale well).

ya they good they just sleeping

Keep in mind that raccoons have opposable thumbs. Might want to invest in traps and a tub of water to dunk the traps in when they're full. Those fuckers have opposable thumbs and are quite smart.

Make light of a bad situation user

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certified slaughter? quit being a pussy user. i chop all my own chickens. Plucking them is a real pain in the ass, but when your talking about a profit margin as thin as raising chickens....you do what you gotta do.

Time for tendies

One raccoon did all that?

thx guy

I intend to do that for myself but you can't sell for premium prices without legal slaughter. It's the cost of doing business.

fug.

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how much money did you lose?

How many chickens do you keep?

yeah ok, that makes sense. I don't sell birds, I just raise them for myself.

That would have to be a couple hundred worth of chicken.

put some duck in there with them so the duck can defend the chickens for you

fucking kek

see
about $450 invested in these guys

Started out with 100 as a trial run. Down to 48 now.

you got a dog? I think having dog smell around the property can be helpful in keeping predators away. Obviously they'll still go for it if they think they can get away with it, but I've had less animals around after getting a dog.

>You can sell these pastured birds at 5lbs for $30-$40
what kind of idiot is buying at these prices?

was a FOX

Mate, dogs are the worst at protecting chicks, they tend to eat them instead.
Never had chicks, but I had a neighbour who had that problem with quails.

it's amazing that chicken is as cheap as it is, considering the amount of work, cost, and mess involved with bringing then to market. dude's not operating a factory.

you need a good dog. good dog isn't going to fuck your shit up unless you tell him to.

feel like a brainlet but how do you sell chicken for $30 per bird when the usual price in stores is $10 to $15 tops? are these special chicken for rich people?

Sure but I buy chicken at $1 a pound or less, who is paying premium for those caged chickens???

underrated

That was a golden retriever, user. They're one of the smartest breeds you can get.

White suburban moms.

Those poor chickens :(

rip in piece sorry for your lots OP

That's because the cheap chicken is grown in basically a factory, with no space to move around, and pumped full of growth hormones and antibiotics.

if you buy meat from the grocery store you are basically eating a wet sack of s-o-y

kek

kek

Have you tried chainlink?

Topkek

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KEK'D

They don't appear to be mauled by a racoon? It was probably aliens, do they have two little holes in their necks?

holy fucking kek user

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Please someone screencap I am in work atm.

Nigger get a real dog.

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>not setting landmines outside of your tractor in case this sort of thing happens

Never gonna make it

Have a guard dog

Came here to post this, fucking retard OP doesn't have a dog that just loves protecting your stuff because that's what he loves.

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>user starts a chicken business
>also browses Jow Forums
>sees LINK spammed 24/7
>gets subliminally brainwashed to think that chainlink alone will protec his chickens
>spends time/energy raising chickens and having just a flimsy chicken wire LINK fence around them
>wakes up to 30 dead chickens
>loses $450

Money Belly is to blame for this. him and his shills.

why doesn't the dog have a shadow, is it vampire dog

kek

SI
SI
SI

how do you sell them?

Farming market is a scam, it's all owned by Monsanto now so good luck cashing out.

It was probably your asian neighbor. only asians would eat the head off a live chicken. it's their calling card. they are basically souless insects

Not raccoons. They are omnivores. They’ll eat insect fruits and maybe a mouse well before they’ll go after chickens.

>funds are not safu

Next time buy better hardware to protect your CKN tokens

user look. Chicken vampires too. They need dog vampire

checked nkek'd

On a cell and just noticed that my I have like 5 different IDs in this thread.

There were 48 chickens in that pen but I only recovered 44. I'm going to look through the woods tomorrow and see if I can track these bastards down.

Thanks everyone for helping me through my financial and emotional losses today.

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did the chickens make any recent enemies

Could be a bear

You dumb ass hell. This is probally a fishercat. Motherfuckers just murder chickens for fun. Its no joke you need to kill them all and even then ur not safe because another one will move in eventually. Ive seen these fuckers crawl thru a halfinch gap in steel. Buy a gun

Should have invested in shrimp instead.

CHICKCONNEEEEEEEEEECT!!!!! WASA WASA WASA!

fuck raccoons

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are those radiation burns?

This is 100% a fishercat murder scene

backyardchickens.com/articles/fisher-cat-chicken-predators-how-to-protect-your-chickens-from-fisher-cats.47724/

Im not kidding.. your shit will never be safe, unless you keep them in a competely sealed coop and wait up with a rifle to kill the thing..

They quite literally just kill for fun, go post on Jow Forums we can help you more there.

no

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Racoons will kill chickens for the fun of it. Not surprised they weren't eaten

the pelt is worth like $100 so OP can recoup some of his losses

Use hardware cloth.
Fuck chicken wire. It's 100% useless.

The problem isn't keeping the chickens in, it's keeping predators out.
Hardware cloth is what you want/need.

>looks like we found our perp

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