[Market-farming] Pasture chicken run and racoons
Margaret L. Wilson
booldawgs at frontiernet.net
Wed Jun 10 00:17:30 EDT 2009
Hmmm, not sure how I replied without intending too. But since I did, I could not run this farm without my 3 LGDs and Premier fencing
Margaret
http://farfarawayfarm.blogspot.com/
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From: Margaret L. Wilson
To: Market Farming
Sent: Tuesday, June 09, 2009 9:05 PM
Subject: Re: [Market-farming] Pasture chicken run and racoons
Margaret
http://farfarawayfarm.blogspot.com/
----- Original Message -----
From: Beth Spaugh
To: 'Market Farming'
Sent: Tuesday, June 09, 2009 8:38 AM
Subject: Re: [Market-farming] Pasture chicken run and racoons
We got a cheap electric fence charger, screwed electric fence insulators to the bottom of the frame about 3 inches (above mowing height) and ran a strand of electric fence wire around the outside, maybe 3 inches off the ground and 3 to 4 inches out from the frame. This was with our first Andy Lee type chicken tractor - not a design I recommend. Now we have Premier electric netting. They make a short 82 foot length, and in 24 and 30" heights that are convenient and "step overable".
Beth Spaugh
Rehoboth Homestead, Peru, NY
Farm Fresh Food Club CSA - http://rhomestead.com
Garden fresh vegetables, organically grown, and pastured chicken, duck, and geese
"How we eat determines, to a considerable extent, how the world is used." - Wendell Berry
"Without power over our food, any notion of democracy is empty." - Frances Moore Lappe
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From: market-farming-bounces at lists.ibiblio.org [mailto:market-farming-bounces at lists.ibiblio.org] On Behalf Of david van veen
Sent: Tuesday, June 09, 2009 1:19 AM
To: Market Farming
Subject: [Market-farming] Pasture chicken run and racoons
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
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