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Black bears have taken out my chickens
Posted on 5/30/24 at 8:37 am
Posted on 5/30/24 at 8:37 am
Anyone else have this experience? My state allows for the dispatching of bears that are destroying property, all of which has been well documented this morning.
I would like to take it out as this mother and yearling have now taken out at least 4 other flocks in our neighborhood, and when there supply of fowl is gone, who knows what they will get into.
I have no experience tracking or hunting them. All i know is my game cam caught them at 4:30 am. Any advice on where to start would be appreciated.
I will have my vengence one way or another.
I would like to take it out as this mother and yearling have now taken out at least 4 other flocks in our neighborhood, and when there supply of fowl is gone, who knows what they will get into.
I have no experience tracking or hunting them. All i know is my game cam caught them at 4:30 am. Any advice on where to start would be appreciated.
I will have my vengence one way or another.
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Posted on 5/30/24 at 8:41 am to DellTronJon
I love hunting but I don't know if I'd kill the bear over my chickens
If there was a season then work around that.
If there was a season then work around that.
Posted on 5/30/24 at 8:41 am to DellTronJon
What state are you in? Are they ripping open your coop?
Posted on 5/30/24 at 8:53 am to DellTronJon
Maybe put an electric fence around your coup.
I wouldn't feel vengeful, they are animals doing animal things.
If you catch them on your property, and have evidence of them killing your chickens like you said, then do what you gotta do if the rules allow it.
I wouldn't go all Daniel Boone on them though.
I wouldn't feel vengeful, they are animals doing animal things.
If you catch them on your property, and have evidence of them killing your chickens like you said, then do what you gotta do if the rules allow it.
I wouldn't go all Daniel Boone on them though.
Posted on 5/30/24 at 8:56 am to DellTronJon
Sure its a bear?
direct YouTube Link
20 minute mark is about his chickens and coop
direct YouTube Link
20 minute mark is about his chickens and coop
This post was edited on 5/30/24 at 9:02 am
Posted on 5/30/24 at 9:03 am to rattlebucket
NC
They ripped the door off the coup which we have been screwing shut at night once rhis happened to our neighbors.
They ripped the door off the coup which we have been screwing shut at night once rhis happened to our neighbors.
Posted on 5/30/24 at 9:04 am to Funky Tide 8
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Maybe put an electric fence around your coup.
I wouldn't feel vengeful, they are animals doing animal things.
If you catch them on your property, and have evidence of them killing your chickens like you said, then do what you gotta do if the rules allow it.
I wouldn't go all Daniel Boone on them though.
When I was a kid my dad had a job building a resort in the North Georgia mountains and we lived in a mobile home park in Dawsonville (where NASCAR was born). We spent most weekends in Atlanta because it was Dawsonville in 1972 and why in hell would your spend a weekend in Dawsonville in 1972? More times than I can recount we would get home late Sunday night and the headlights would shine several bears raiding garbage cans, including ours. It was my job to clean that shite up....I hated those damned bears. My dad finally taught them to leave ours alone. There was a booger light close to ours with an outlet at the bottom. He took a piece of romex, stripped one conductor on each end, plugged that bare wire into the hot side of that outlet and tie wrapped the other stripped end around the lip of the plastic can. That night those bears bellowed and grunted and screamed like they were being ground up in a wood chipper....and NEVER fricked with that can again.....they would raid other cans in the area but never touched ours again. If they are getting in the chicken coop try it and film it....it will probably be funnier than hell.
Posted on 5/30/24 at 9:11 am to DellTronJon
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Any advice on where to start would be appreciated
I’ve never hunted bears, but it sounds like it wouldn’t be hard considering you already know what they’re after. I’d get a couple more chickens or even some raw chicken from the store, put them in something that will take a little bit of effort to get into (to give you some time for a shot), and set up a couple cell cams that will catch them coming toward the bait. The cell cams aren’t necessary if you’re willing to hide out and wait all night, but I’d just stay up and watch tv until I got an alert and sneak out, or open a window, and shoot them.
Posted on 5/30/24 at 9:23 am to AwgustaDawg
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When I was a kid my dad had a job building a resort in the North Georgia mountains and we lived in a mobile home park in Dawsonville (where NASCAR was born). We spent most weekends in Atlanta because it was Dawsonville in 1972 and why in hell would your spend a weekend in Dawsonville in 1972? More times than I can recount we would get home late Sunday night and the headlights would shine several bears raiding garbage cans, including ours. It was my job to clean that shite up....I hated those damned bears. My dad finally taught them to leave ours alone. There was a booger light close to ours with an outlet at the bottom. He took a piece of romex, stripped one conductor on each end, plugged that bare wire into the hot side of that outlet and tie wrapped the other stripped end around the lip of the plastic can. That night those bears bellowed and grunted and screamed like they were being ground up in a wood chipper....and NEVER fricked with that can again.....they would raid other cans in the area but never touched ours again. If they are getting in the chicken coop try it and film it....it will probably be funnier than hell.
man, you always have a story.
I enjoy reading them.
This post was edited on 5/30/24 at 9:23 am
Posted on 5/30/24 at 9:49 am to A_bear
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but I’d just stay up and watch tv until I got an alert and sneak out, or open a window, and shoot them.
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A_bear
Checks out. Do this
Posted on 5/30/24 at 9:59 am to Crawdaddy
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I don't know if I'd kill the bear over my chickens
I imagine you'd feel different if they were as plentiful as racoons. Not sure if thats OP situ though.
Posted on 5/30/24 at 10:20 am to Turnblad85
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I imagine you'd feel different if they were as plentiful as racoons.
I would. I'd even feel different if Bears had a hunting season.
Posted on 5/30/24 at 10:27 am to DellTronJon
Man chickens is cheap, take a break and let em be.
Posted on 5/30/24 at 10:28 am to Crawdaddy
Supercharged electric fence seems like it would work
Posted on 5/30/24 at 10:46 am to DellTronJon
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Black bears have taken out my chickens
You should see what they do to the fawn crop..
Yeah, it's OK to kill predators and that's what these are doing.
Posted on 5/30/24 at 11:23 am to DellTronJon
Your local Wildlife and Fish agency won’t trap and relocate it?
Posted on 5/30/24 at 11:25 am to DellTronJon
Posted on 5/30/24 at 11:34 am to RogerTheShrubber
is that a buzzard it is eating ?
Posted on 5/30/24 at 11:37 am to A_bear
Steam cleaner transformer, low amperage but around 75,000 volts. They will throw an arc over an inch
Posted on 5/30/24 at 11:39 am to Funky Tide 8
Chicken. No buzzards here.
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