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  • From: "Franklin W. Davis" <knarfme AT comcast.net>
  • To: "Market Farming" <market-farming AT lists.ibiblio.org>
  • Subject: Re: [Market-farming] raccoon strategies
  • Date: Mon, 2 Jul 2007 10:52:09 -0400 (Eastern Daylight Time)

  Hi Folks...it's interesting to me that the folks that have chickens...for layers or broilers...find it somewhat amazing that critters get into their chicken coops...kill their chickens...then wonder why. Secure your coops folks...cos the various varmints will  send some of your fowl to the big coop in the sky if they can find a way in.  Franklin 
 
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From: pech
Date: 7/2/2007 8:44:06 AM
Subject: Re: [Market-farming] raccoon strategies
 
Just yesterday I had a opossum in my coop, He only ate one chicken and only ate the head. I know it was a opossum cause he was still in there in the morning when I let everyone out!

----- Original Message ----
From: Glen Eco Farm <glenecofarm AT planetcomm.net>
To: Market Farming <market-farming AT lists.ibiblio.org>
Sent: Sunday, July 1, 2007 11:51:52 PM
Subject: Re: [Market-farming] raccoon strategies

This is interesting.  Recently, on two different ocassions, Marlin found a
headless chicken in a nestbox.  Our chicken house is on a wagon.  We stand
on the wagon hitch to lift the flap and reach into the nest box to gather
eggs.  In the one case he saw blood on the outside of the flap.  We have
been trying to figure out if a fox could/would climb up and reach in.  (We
know foxes are around and have eaten some chickens and a neighbor's duck
outside of the electra-net fence.)  Could an owl, hawk, or weasel lift a
plywood flap?
Christine Burkholder

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From: "Fellenz" <fellenz AT fltg.net>
To: "Market Farming" <market-farming AT lists.ibiblio.org>
Sent: Monday, June 25, 2007 1:29 PM
Subject: Re: [Market-farming] raccoon strategies


> Are you sure you have raccoons and not weasels?  Weasels like to bite
> the heads off chickens and leave the rest behind.  They will also
> slaughter indiscriminately.
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> Andy
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