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    I'm heartbroken 💔

    I would like to say I appreciate the input y'all. Yesterday was the first time I ever lost any birds and it was after a week of getting into the healthy habit of going out and caring for them every day... I had managed to make it a part of my day I looked forward to after getting home from...
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    Planning a Semi-Free range flock

    1) thank you, that's really reasonable actually :) 2) Perfect! 3) you said it, not me... I always thought it looked like putting a full sized horse in a round-pen and say it's in pasture 😨
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    Planning a Semi-Free range flock

    oh, and Mother Of Chaos, you just introduced a plant to me that I have fallen in love with. Forsythia, yellow is my favorite color... And my husband just said to find a sapling we can find and plant it 🤣 it may be a little late for that but I digress.
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    Planning a Semi-Free range flock

    In reference to the coyotes and other larger ground predators, we have that yard fenced all the way around with the 2" x 4" wire fence because of the dogs (almost done getting it affixed along the bottom of the house around the skirting too because we have an escape artist) nature is nature, and...
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    Planning a Semi-Free range flock

    Thank you so much for the reply, I was about to go on a stress induced ramble that probably is unnecessary. Hah... Anyway, I suppose my question is at what age could I let the chickens (once I have them) out of their brood kennel? Bc we do want them to have free roam of the yard which is...
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    Planning a Semi-Free range flock

    I also have realized that a lot of people consider free range to be basically in their yards so the 'semi' part of my title is not really applicable. I always assumed free range implied no fences at all. Unless I'm reading this in an off way?
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    Planning a Semi-Free range flock

    I am also in search of good tools for the free-range style I'm looking at. Structures we can construct for the chickens to have some way to evade predators and so on.
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    Planning a Semi-Free range flock

    When you say truly protected, what do you mean? We don't have any good bushes in the area we have available, more trees. I have a mulberry tree that's young rn that is essentially a big bush rn. (Can be seen in the left of the first pic) part of the interest in the kits is the frame being light...
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    Planning a Semi-Free range flock

    My husband and I were talking about this and he has some input. We've agreed that we can afford to buy one of those chicken run kits with the hex wire, and later add other wire as we can. He proposed using the 1" x 2" fence wire in tandem with the chicken wire as the theory is that racoons...
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    Planning a Semi-Free range flock

    This all being said, I'm looking at some metal chicken runs that seem to have PVC coated chicken wire type stuff and am wondering if that would be better than normal chicken wire. I may be able to get one of those to put the broody area into instead. I don't think we can afford buying all the...
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    Planning a Semi-Free range flock

    Like the title says, I'm preparing for a semi- free range flock. I want to get a mixed flock going (we want about four ducks and six chicks and one or two geese ultimately) (geese for flock protection) here, I have attached a pick of a large fenced yard that we set up for the dogs years ago...
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    I'm heartbroken 💔

    Guess the hawk feather we found was a red herring? Do raccoons just pick the ducklings up and carry them all off? A rat snake I could see, very full rat snake...
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    I'm heartbroken 💔

    Thank you so much for your in-depth input, it's a lot to think of. I keep thinking everything is so expensive though (you probably noticed that our little setup is very... Improvised...) I think I'll be making another thread to get input on my plans. For now, I'll be looking at securing the...
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    I'm heartbroken 💔

    Oh,and by the way, this area is within the dog run area, idk if raccoons are detected by dog presence but I thought that were worth noting.
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    I'm heartbroken 💔

    Huh, I would have thought there would be more evidence for a raccoon? The bedding inside the kennel wasn't even disturbed any more than usual. And I would have thought the dogs would go crazy if they smelled a raccoon nearby. (I have a dog that will alert me to where rats have been if they get...
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