[CapitalistCartr]

Try gardening/farming. Starting with eggs. Snakes, weasels, raccoons, even the hens want them. Hawks want my chicks, as do snakes, raccoons, weasels, foxes, bobcats, and coyotes. Weasels, coyotes, foxes want the pullets and adult hens. Its like anything I want to raise is a buffet for nature. On the other hand, I have an electric fence.

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So many people have stopped their small scale chicken raising/egg production, like one family I know, after they learned "fox in the hen-house" isn't just a turn of phrase.

Both my parents grew up on farms, and we kept a big garden when I was growing up, so I know this very well, although reading the article that link collects for many months was serious sobering.