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  • From: Clansgian AT wmconnect.com
  • To: homestead AT lists.ibiblio.org
  • Subject: Re: [Homestead] Harpie visit/chicken moat
  • Date: Thu, 8 Jun 2006 12:02:38 EDT

In a message dated 6/5/2006 11:55:41 PM Eastern Daylight Time,
erthnsky AT bellsouth.net writes:

> My second consideration is not what the grasshoppers can do, but what
> the hawks, eagles, and owls will do. I have lost quite a few birds to
> hawks and golden eagles.

First, hi Bev. We're here too of course.

And we most definitely ARE still homesteaders, ever moreso. Although exactly
what we do and how we do it changes all the time. But we ever eat more of
our own food, get by on less cash, do without more engines, do with less
oil/gas/exploitation.

On your hawks and chicken moat thing, a modification of what we use to keep
the crows out of hard corn might work for the chicken moat. Let me see if I
can explain this. With the corn, we pound in stakes around the patch (all
three
sisters in hills of course, no agribusiness rows for us) and string black
thread from each post to each post which makes a web over the patch. The
crows
will not violate it. Sometimes a deer or dog runs through it but it only
needs
to be up for about three weeks.

Transferring this idea to the chicken moat would mean a more permanent
design, but using something cheap and durable like electric fence wire and
just
zigzagging it from outside fence to inside fence might do it. To my
understanding, one of the reasons for the chicken moat is to not have to mow
the perimeter
so maybe you could widen it.

good luck,
Denise




  • Re: [Homestead] Harpie visit/chicken moat, Clansgian, 06/08/2006

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