I would move my chickens to a garage or basement until I could come up with a better plan.Maybe a friend will keep them a couple days? Stapling hw cloth over an opening won't stop a bear (or any other predator for that matter) Hw cloth must be secured with poultry staples or screws and washers. Few coops will survive a bear attack without an electric fence. Sorry for your loss!
This is brilliant
Shit!! Luckily, it wasn't the whole flock, but our bees aren't are from the coop. I'm nervous they will be next. Going electric for sure!
Oh, so sorry for your flock loss. I know how you must feel, I had neighbors dogs tear into my free range chickens. Young layers, easy going. Had to put a couple down they were so torn up. Even my bantams that were in their run was affected from hearing and seeing what was going on. Lost two of them from stress. Can't keep their dogs away. They have a kennel and promised to keep them in it until they could get a secure fence up. My son heard they in the run at the back of the barn terrorizing my poor buck rabbit that was in a hutch. Now I have to keep him in my hanging wire cages along side of my girls. Now the best thing to do but safety comes first. By the way, these are hunting dogs. They are ruined for hunting as they want to kill, kill, kill.Not sure what could do this other than a bear, last night our Run Chicken dorr was torn clean off the coop! I didn't get a picture of that but I did get a picture of the one door. (Attached) Not pictured is the lock that's usually on the door and the boards that are usually over the hardware cloth and then an insulated tarp that goes over top of the boards.
What ever it is took multiple birds and left one of my girls shredded.
