[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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