Skip to Content.
Sympa Menu

market-farming - Re: [Market-farming] Pasture chicken run and racoons

market-farming AT lists.ibiblio.org

Subject: Market Farming

List archive

Chronological Thread  
  • From: "John Pike" <jpike AT gloryroad.net>
  • To: "Market Farming" <market-farming AT lists.ibiblio.org>
  • Subject: Re: [Market-farming] Pasture chicken run and racoons
  • Date: Tue, 9 Jun 2009 12:56:34 -0400


electic fence from premier. free-range during the day.
----- Original Message -----
Sent: Tuesday, June 09, 2009 12:07 PM
Subject: Re: [Market-farming] Pasture chicken run and racoons

When I raised poultry I always kept the birds in a fully enclosed coop with wooden floor layered with deep litter roughly  2sq ft. per bird. I would open the doors in the morning and the birds would fly out and only come home to lay, eat mash and roost. Evenings I would close the door and never lost a bird in 30 years. In the old days my dad would build chicken tractors with chicken wire walls and the coons and dogs would just tear them apart in the night. I learned my lesson from my dads mistakes to build a strong coop... Bob.
Sunny Meadow Farm
Bridgeton, NJ.

--- pariveen AT shaw.ca wrote:

From: david van veen <pariveen AT shaw.ca>
To: Market Farming <market-farming AT lists.ibiblio.org>
Subject: [Market-farming] Pasture chicken run and racoons
Date: Mon, 08 Jun 2009 22:19:19 -0700

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
_______________________________________________ Market-farming mailing list Market-farming AT lists.ibiblio.org http://lists.ibiblio.org/mailman/listinfo/market-farming

 

Netscape.  Just the Net You Need.


_______________________________________________
Market-farming mailing list
Market-farming AT lists.ibiblio.org
http://lists.ibiblio.org/mailman/listinfo/market-farming




Archive powered by MHonArc 2.6.24.

Top of Page