These birds have been the foundation of our flock. They have stood up to the arid Colorado weather here which means cold winters, hot summers and not much rain so no many plants or bugs. Very...
Acquired these two girls from someone who wasn't supposed to have them in the city. They were still pullets. They lay one egg every other day between the two of them. Have not noted them to be...
With several comments about finding it hard to obtain good quality Brabanters, has anyone purchased from Sandhill? Where have you found good quality stock? If our town changes it's regs, this is...
We are getting some chicks at the end of the month are doing the fencing for their outside run. We were thinking of doing the "floppy fence" method along the sides and then fishnet to go over the outside area.
Since you ask, nothing, and we have a lot of hawks around here. Never had a problem. Well, I do have one of those phoney owls, but I seriously doubt that does any good. I just like the way it looks, but than I have a phoney vulture in the bathroom.
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I am mostly worried about racoons - has anyone used the floppy fence method? I hear it works great for gardens to keep racoons away.... thought I would give it a shot??
This is only the bantam pen. The main pen is uncovered. The smaller Orp pen has mason's line with CD's dangling from it to bounce and throw reflections and make a dive hard for them. That does nothing for anything else. A tight predator proof coop at night keeps everything else except for bears at bay.
~A dog on its owner's property is a pet; A dog on someone else's property is a predator~
I have used the deer netting, too, and have never had a problem. But I always locked my birds in the coop at night, so I've never had a problem with predators, either. Never seen any evidence that anything tried climbing into the pen -- such as damaged netting. So far it's working for me -- it's cheap and easy, too. :)