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    Wound from dog attack

    Wow - what an encouraging story! And great, well deserved name :-)
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    Wound from dog attack

    Thank you for that idea! It's something to save up for. We're still wlatching for sales on hardware cloth, too.
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    Wound from dog attack

    Yes. True.
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    Wound from dog attack

    They feel very bad and I think they realize it will only get worse unless they do something. Thank you for your kind sentiment.
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    Wound from dog attack

    I agree, that would be a really good answer, but this is a rural area and the areas both on their property and ours that would need the apron installed is very large the way things are at this time. In the four years we've had chickens here, we haven't had any problems with predators at all...
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    Wound from dog attack

    Thank you, Nuthatched. Thank you very much BigBlueHen53! I meant to ask what kind of electrolytes were for chickens. Great info.
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    Wound from dog attack

    Our brown laying hen was attacked by a dog. (Working with neighbors on the problem of their small dog being able to dig under and get into just about anything.) This is our first experience with an attack. We cleaned with saline water and used Neosporin. There's deep gashes, a large surface area...
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    Mongoose proof chicken tractor

    Great links! Love, love, love the pictures.
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    Mongoose proof chicken tractor

    Thank you for your kind words. This group has helped us so much in the 24 hours since I joined, I'm just blown away. I think understand better now how the apron works (yes, I'm definitely a newbie to the max!). Instead of trenching and burying the hardware cloth a foot in the ground, laying a...
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    Mongoose proof chicken tractor

    Great idea, seriously. Our ground is very uneven at the moment and the mongooses (mongeese?) have proven pretty crafty little buggers. I think we might have to forgo mobility for the coop at this time and bury the hardware cloth at least 12". Your article and all the pointers are very helpful...
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    Mongoose proof chicken tractor

    Thank you so much!
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    Mongoose proof chicken tractor

    We recently lost our five chickens, apparently to mongooses (we live in Hawaii). We honestly didn't think they would go for full size birds. Since free ranging seems not to be an option right now, we're working on a coop while we try to find chicks to start a new flock. From what I'm reading...
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