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    Chicks and Bees Cohabitating

    I didn't know they could do this. Mine run like chickens when a bee flies around them and they definitely avoid the entrances, which are about 60 cm above ground level. It is just the larva and honeycomb they come running for. 😂
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    Is this kind of wire fox proof?

    The fox paid a visit last night and tried to dig into the enclosed run. Thankfully she did not succeed as she hit the skirt that we buried, but it was too close for comfort. I will be reinforcing the skirting (currently two layers of chicken wire) with hardware cloth. They need to eat too, but...
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    Is this kind of wire fox proof?

    Would replacing the wire with hardware cloth help? Or are there other issues?
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    Is this kind of wire fox proof?

    Yes, it would be connected to the Chunnel on the end of the workshop, between the workshop and the cherry tree
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    Chicks and Bees Cohabitating

    We have our beehives right in the chicken run. The chickens keep it weeded för me for easy access and they live when I told the comb filled with drones for a test in the summer. The only problem we have ever had is that the chickens dug up the cement things we buried for the hive stand and it...
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    Is this kind of wire fox proof?

    Sorry I didn't expand on my explanation. This is just a supplemental little run area that is meant to be fox-proof during the day. The girls have a chunnel along our workshop garage which leads to the other fully enclosed run, which is 2x3 m2, which is attached to their coop which is actually in...
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    Fox buried neighbor's chicken in my garden this morning

    Not necessarily. I have been working my rear off for the last two years shoring up, rebuilding, buying what I think will help but still keep losing chickens and ducks to foxes. I would't assume they don't care.
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    Daggum FOX!!

    I am so sorry. We lost our beloved Dot and Penny and 7 others when I made a terrible error forgetting to check the lock before bed and the fox got into the coop overnight. Since then, we have bought and lost 13 more in various attacks. And that is just the last 9 months or so. 😢 Our most recent...
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    Is this kind of wire fox proof?

    It is like 2x4" (5x10cm), insure of gauge but much thicker than chicken wire. Full story: We have lost so many chickens to foxes in the last year. She/they come/s to feed her pups every few weeks and five or six times now she has succeeded in getting two or more chickens. 2 days ago she took...
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    Does anyone keep their chickens outdoors in a predator proofed run at night with an open air coop that's not locked?

    Our coop is fully enclosed but we built a chicken run attached to the coop with three sides that are just 10cm wire mesh. We live in Sweden (it was -23 this morning) and our girls ALWAYS choose to stay on the roosting bars in the run and not in the coop. They have done that for years now. I...
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    Automatically filling a gravity waterer

    One more question: I originally got the idea when I saw this picture online. As I mentioned, I have two buckets also in the coop with horizontal nipples. Would it be easier/better for any reason to hook the rain barrel to one of those rather than the gravity-waterer?
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    Automatically filling a gravity waterer

    This is GREAT! I will look tomorrow to see if I can find find a valve like that in town. Thank you so much!
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    Automatically filling a gravity waterer

    Genius!!
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    Automatically filling a gravity waterer

    Thank you!!!
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    Automatically filling a gravity waterer

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    Automatically filling a gravity waterer

    It does not require the lid to work. The float or whatever it is (sorry I don’t really understand it myself) is a ring of plastic under the barrel that holds the water, and there is a small opening at the bottom of the red ring that allows water out. The bucket has two a hole in the bottom and...
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    Automatically filling a gravity waterer

    @U_Stormcrow would you mind giving your opinion? You seem to know what works and how to do it. Thanks!!
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    Automatically filling a gravity waterer

    We have to go away for about nine days last minute. We’re leaving on Monday. We have nine chickens. I have two 15 L buckets with horizontal nipple waterers in the chicken run/coop. I also have a 20 L gravity fed waterer like the picture below. We have a rain barrel that captures rainwater right...
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    Hen Suddenly Died

    I am so sad and bewildered. I had four hens left after foxes took eight of our flock one night several weeks ago. I went out to close the pop door tonight and could hear a hen making a slight ruckus of clucking and wind-flapping, sounds I hear often as they are getting up into the roosts. When...
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    Fox…Edit: Wile E Coyote

    Oh goodness, this is/was a conundrum. I am sorry but that fox is just beautiful. I can't help it, I love foxes so much. We have a fox family that lives right behind our property, as well. I am amazed that with a coyote and a fox hanging around, that your chickens are all safe and that they...
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