Protect Your Poultry As a chicken owner, keeping your flock safe is your top priority, and few things are as devastating as finding yourself and your birds the victims of a henhouse heist. Gail Damerow's lively and logical detective manual teaches you to be the gumshoe, piecing together the clues predators leave behind – before and after an intrusion – to correctly identify the culprit and adopt the most effective strategies for keeping poultry safe and sound.
Protect Your Poultry As a chicken owner, keeping your flock safe is your top priority, and few things are as devastating as finding yourself and your birds the victims of a henhouse heist. Gail Damerow's lively and logical detective manual teaches you to be the gumshoe, piecing together the clues predators leave behind – before and after an intrusion – to correctly identify the culprit and adopt the most effective strategies for keeping poultry safe and sound.
Gail Damerow has written extensively on raising chickens and other livestock, growing fruits and vegetables, and related rural know-how in more than a dozen books, including What’s Killing My Chickens? and the best-selling Storey’s Guide to Raising Chickens, The Chicken Encyclopedia, The Chicken Health Handbook, and Hatching & Brooding Your Own Chicks. Damerow is a contributor to Chickens and Hobby Farms magazines and a regular blogger for Cackle Hatchery. She lives in Tennessee with her husband, where they operate a family farm with poultry and dairy goats, a sizable garden, and a small orchard. Visit her online at gaildamerow.com.
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Acknowledgments On Becoming a Detective Part One: The Offense 1 Scene of the Crime Poultry Predation Egg Predation Blaming the Wrong Critter 2 Who Coulda (or Couldn'ta) Dunnit? Range and Habitat Seasonal Patterns Daily Patterns Predatory Cycles 3 Sleuthing for Clues Eyewitness Evidence Mammal Signs Bird Signs 4 Foiling the Perps Eliminate Point of Entry (Best Plan) Discourage Predators (Good Idea) Eliminate Predators (Bad Idea) 5 Fence Defenses Fence Selection Mesh Fences Electric Fences Secure Gates 6 The Poultry Perspective Vision: Prey versus Predator Reaction to Predators Part Two: The Suspects Hawks and Eagles Red-Tailed Hawk Other Buteos Accipiters Eagles Falcons Owls Great Horned Owl Snowy Owl Great Gray Owl Barred Owl Raccoon Family Raccoon Coati and Ringtail Dog Family Red Fox Gray Fox Kit Fox Swift Fox Arctic Fox Coyotes Gray Wolf Domestic Dog Weasel Family Long-Tailed Weasel Short-Tailed Weasel Least Weasel Mink Marten Fisher Otter Badger Wolverine Cat Family Bobcat Cougar Lynx House Cat Bear Family Black Bear Brown and Grizzly Bears Opossums Skunks Striped Skunk Spotted Skunks Hooded Skunk Hog-Nosed Skunk Rodents Ground Squirrels Rats Mice Corvids and Gulls American Crow Common Raven Chihuahuan Raven Magpies Jays Gulls Reptiles and Amphibians Rat Snakes More Colubrids American Bullfrog Snapping Turtles Alligators and Crocodiles Appendix Checklist: Predators in My Area Identifying Predators by Bite Marks Poultry Preferences of Predators Glossary Resources Index Metric Conversions
Acknowledgments On Becoming a Detective Part One: The Offense 1 Scene of the Crime Poultry Predation Egg Predation Blaming the Wrong Critter 2 Who Coulda (or Couldn'ta) Dunnit? Range and Habitat Seasonal Patterns Daily Patterns Predatory Cycles 3 Sleuthing for Clues Eyewitness Evidence Mammal Signs Bird Signs 4 Foiling the Perps Eliminate Point of Entry (Best Plan) Discourage Predators (Good Idea) Eliminate Predators (Bad Idea) 5 Fence Defenses Fence Selection Mesh Fences Electric Fences Secure Gates 6 The Poultry Perspective Vision: Prey versus Predator Reaction to Predators Part Two: The Suspects Hawks and Eagles Red-Tailed Hawk Other Buteos Accipiters Eagles Falcons Owls Great Horned Owl Snowy Owl Great Gray Owl Barred Owl Raccoon Family Raccoon Coati and Ringtail Dog Family Red Fox Gray Fox Kit Fox Swift Fox Arctic Fox Coyotes Gray Wolf Domestic Dog Weasel Family Long-Tailed Weasel Short-Tailed Weasel Least Weasel Mink Marten Fisher Otter Badger Wolverine Cat Family Bobcat Cougar Lynx House Cat Bear Family Black Bear Brown and Grizzly Bears Opossums Skunks Striped Skunk Spotted Skunks Hooded Skunk Hog-Nosed Skunk Rodents Ground Squirrels Rats Mice Corvids and Gulls American Crow Common Raven Chihuahuan Raven Magpies Jays Gulls Reptiles and Amphibians Rat Snakes More Colubrids American Bullfrog Snapping Turtles Alligators and Crocodiles Appendix Checklist: Predators in My Area Identifying Predators by Bite Marks Poultry Preferences of Predators Glossary Resources Index Metric Conversions
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