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Nice shooting, I would like to see some pics of your game bird pens set up.

Other than the gray diggers what sort of predators are you up against? I am free ranging 40 layers over 2 unfenced acres currently am loosing birds to a couple of coyotes that I have been unable to draw a bead on. However they are becoming less warry so I expect to get a crack at one of them pretty soon. (There was a good article in Outside a couple months back about Coyotes, which I made copies of and destrbuited to my neighbors, now there are several of us that are on the hunt)

Over the last few years, the biggest problem was a Sharp Shinned or perhaps Coopers Hawk that killed over a dozen birds.

However we do have a Bald Eagle that comes by for a visit once in awhile as well as a couple of Racoons.