Toxicrye
In the Brooder
- Mar 9, 2025
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I am not sure how this site works exactly, but I wanted answers, or at least other people’s input. This morning something very bizarre happened and I can’t make sense of it. All four of my ducks are in their coupe all mauled but alive with one wound on their back, and or side. The reason it doesn’t make sense is because almost all predators I know kill on site, either eat immediately or drag off to be eaten. With this, our chicken wire fencing is stomped down(I put extra wires in place to prevent it from falling, I’ve even tested this with my own weight), the coupe door is set to the side open, and the cinder block removed. I also have wolf piss around the property that deters predators. (I live in a rural area, but not country country, there’s still neighbourhoods and buildings, just not cities.)
I have a drake with scoliosis that I keep separate in a metal dog crate in coupe due to his aggressive behavior lately but his cage door was also open. And I last I checked, no predator I know of has strong enough thumbs to open doors like that. Also given how stomped down the fencing is on both sides, you’d assume a big predator like a bear or human.(But we don’t have bears here.) This is where I’m so lost for words on what happened, our gunnies took off into the forest (they’re all alive and well), I still assumed a dog got ahold of them, and went into a prey drive/surplus killing minus the killing part, since I’ve seen that happen with dogs before, where they attack for play but don’t kill. And our neighbours do have some big ones that get out occasionally, but there are no tracks in the mud at all, just the fencing all flattened, doors opened, and ducks mauled. And the reason I can’t wrap my head around it being a coyote aside from the other obvious issues in that story, is because my duck with scoliosis is the slowest, he has mobility issues. And Coyotes grab prey by the neck instant kill, that duck would’ve been the first to go, so this wasn’t no “chasing issue, moving onto next bird” type thing in my opinion, or at least from what I can gather.
Spoilers for graphic images(?) I don’t know how to work this site, not sure if that’s a thing, sorry.
UPDATE: It’s 6:00am. I heard barking and something scratching at the wind tarp outside, I looked out my window seeing a tall figure and in a fit of panic I ran outside, as I opened the door I quickly shut it because I heard a man’s voice. And was pretty dumb of me to run out there without thinking.I got me máthair and we went outside to take a look, didn’t find a person but she chased off this really huge German shepherd. We went to check on the birds and we fixed the fence yesterday but now the part that was stomped down last time, is completely destroyed, it looks cut, ripped apart and one of the metal posts is bent. And where the dog was easily just leapt over the back fence without touching it. So now we know for a fact the damage was done by a dog, and maybe some sadistic sick person. I don’t know how to go about this or what to do.
I have a drake with scoliosis that I keep separate in a metal dog crate in coupe due to his aggressive behavior lately but his cage door was also open. And I last I checked, no predator I know of has strong enough thumbs to open doors like that. Also given how stomped down the fencing is on both sides, you’d assume a big predator like a bear or human.(But we don’t have bears here.) This is where I’m so lost for words on what happened, our gunnies took off into the forest (they’re all alive and well), I still assumed a dog got ahold of them, and went into a prey drive/surplus killing minus the killing part, since I’ve seen that happen with dogs before, where they attack for play but don’t kill. And our neighbours do have some big ones that get out occasionally, but there are no tracks in the mud at all, just the fencing all flattened, doors opened, and ducks mauled. And the reason I can’t wrap my head around it being a coyote aside from the other obvious issues in that story, is because my duck with scoliosis is the slowest, he has mobility issues. And Coyotes grab prey by the neck instant kill, that duck would’ve been the first to go, so this wasn’t no “chasing issue, moving onto next bird” type thing in my opinion, or at least from what I can gather.
Spoilers for graphic images(?) I don’t know how to work this site, not sure if that’s a thing, sorry.
UPDATE: It’s 6:00am. I heard barking and something scratching at the wind tarp outside, I looked out my window seeing a tall figure and in a fit of panic I ran outside, as I opened the door I quickly shut it because I heard a man’s voice. And was pretty dumb of me to run out there without thinking.I got me máthair and we went outside to take a look, didn’t find a person but she chased off this really huge German shepherd. We went to check on the birds and we fixed the fence yesterday but now the part that was stomped down last time, is completely destroyed, it looks cut, ripped apart and one of the metal posts is bent. And where the dog was easily just leapt over the back fence without touching it. So now we know for a fact the damage was done by a dog, and maybe some sadistic sick person. I don’t know how to go about this or what to do.
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