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Most of our pests fly in so I'm not sure a chicken moat 
would work. Our rooster has free range of the garden 
though. Fortunately we have the second largest Mexican 
free-tailed bat colony in the world (featured on BBC 
several times) nearby and our own Cave Myotis bats to keep 
our garden relatively free of damaging insects. We sit out 
there as evening falls and the bats come within inches of 
our faces (one even brushed my cheek last week!) eating 
the mosquitoes our warm bodies are attracting. It's pretty 
cool, not for the faint of heart.


On Thu, 3 Jul 2008 14:02:29 -0400
 "Warren" <mogrits AT gmail.com> wrote:
> I think as used on this list, a moat is just a spatial 
> barrier. If I recall
> correctly, Gene's "chicken moat" is just double fencing 
> your garden allowing
> chickens to patrol the perimeter. The "chicken moat" 
> keeps the bugs out.