permaculture

[Scott Pittman <pci@permaculture-inst.org>]

The best we could come up with for our poultry was to fence them in at 
night, shoot stray dogs during the day.  Most wild predators are nocturnal 
so the fence and hen house combination works great.  For our tree roosting 
guineas and turkeys we put sheet metal around the tree trunk so predators 
couldn't climb the tree.

It took us many years and loss of hundreds of birds before we got it under 
control, and it is still iffy with feral dogs if we aren't here during the 
day.  The gun teacher is a good one, I use a 410 shotgun with birdshot and 
it doesn't kill but hurts like hell and they don't come back.

Scott

At 12:00 PM 12/3/02 -0500, you wrote:
> Good day,
>
> Georg wrote about dogs/predators killing his chickens etc.
>
> I've had same problem..especially in winter when food supply is scarce. I've
> lost quite a few ducks, geese, and chickens.
>
> So I no longer have same. Coyotes are thick around here. A few weeks ago I
> saw 3 chasing my dogs..which are all over 50lbs, Australian shepherds. They'd
> try and lure them into the woods.
>
> Any ideas? Thanks. Frank