[Market-farming] chickens and raccoons

Errol Castens castens at nepower.coop
Tue Jun 9 16:37:54 EDT 2009


David Van Veen wrote:

Hi everyone,
> We just built our pasture chicken run, put the new layer pullets (5 
> wks) in there and bang, the racoons got three of them! The racoon(s) 
> dug underneath the frame to seemingly pull them out.
>
> Need ideas for preventing racoons from digging under the chicken run.
>
> Traumatized,
> Margaret & David

We have a stationary pen with an enclosed top, but 'coons or 'possums 
got the biggest part of our layer flock earlier this year after the wire 
had rusted through where we couldn't readily see it. The best I can 
offer is to attach 3-foot-wide hardware cloth or chicken wire to each 
side, with one foot stapled on the chicken run and two feet sticking out 
perpendicular so that it is on the ground. Don't forget to let it 
overlap at the corners. It'll be extra work when you move the pen, but 
it beats having dead chickens.


Errol Castens
Oxford, Mississippi


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