Oddbean new post about login | logout Dog was guarding #chickens for the longest time. Recently been AWOL. Lost a chicken to an eagle today. Moral of story - have a big dog around.
interesting, this might explain why they like dogs here in the atlantic island chain... because at dawn the chorus of roosters can be heard everywhere
there is some kind of hawk or something native here, brown colour... you hear them all the time, and occasionally see them hovering and spying out vulnerable small animals to grab and evicerate for their dinners, i think they are big enough that they can carry it far enough away from a coop to break off legs and head and suchlike and taxi it back to their nests to eat later