We cured the that problem after losing our whole flock of egg layers in one night to family of those bad boys. We bought a 6 foot high roll chain link fence and laid in 3 feet in and 3 feet out all around the whole area and buried it 6 inches, they have not dug under again. We have a top on...
The Partrige is now older and very nice! Thank you Tracey, They were in a mixed bunch of eggs and was not sure on the partridge back them, now that he is older I can tell. I've had a lot of chicks with chipmunk stripes....
I just found the wing bands and they are a pretty good price with the device to apply them for chicks as young as one day.
http://www.randallburkey.com/basket.asp
Zip ties sound good for temps...
Thank you, I guess youd being changing bands often on chicks. Markers are a good idea. I don't know anything about wing bands, I'll google it.
Thanks....