A point of education which many folks will find surprising. Hobby and home farming chickens is at a multigenerational high. The organic, locally sourced, free range, hormone free, prepper, off the grid, self sustaining, etc etc trends have really stacked up in the last decade, and hobby/home chicken farming is soaring.

Not so surprising, once given that information, is the fact most of these new chicken stewards were not raised nor trained directly by an elder generation of actual chicken farmers. They’re either learning online or on their own, and yes, a larger plurality of these folks have absolutely no experience or knowledge in any form of animal husbandry, and subsequently do not appropriately protect their flocks from depredation. Folks that build low cost, “found wood” chicken coops from pallets and snow fences do a half-decent job at keeping their animals enclosed, half-decent, however, do a poor job of preventing invasion by predators.

So yeah... many of these folks are like our OP. No idea what they are doing, but are still happy to pretend to be authorities on their craft because they read some OTHER clueless newbie’s blog about their baby hobby chicken farm. And inevitably, they stumble and fall over even the most simple of hurdles which would have been avoided by those which have actual experience or experienced mentors guiding their hands.