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Well...I don't know how to be anything other than frank and honest... All you need is a neon sign saying "FREE COON FOOD HERE". Those are beautiful RIP's. Good luck to them.
Obviously, we who have backyard chickens have backyard chickens for the love of having backyard chickens. The expense will always outweigh the return moneywise.
No. Do not like it for baseline protection at all. It is worthless.
But raccoons and other medium to large size predators love it. It works good for flossing the chicken feathers out of their teeth.
There is no such thing as using too much or too strong of fencing. And you can't leave a single weak spot.
I see some of these coops with nothing but a covering of chicken wire and I'm thinking they are only one night away from a bunch of mangled chickens and they don't even know it.... Just...
Indeed on the coons. They can get to 40 lbs as an adult. 25 lbs. is quite common. And yeah, they will kill for the pleasure of it. I had a coon kill three and devour only one of them, leaving the other two just laying.
Bravo!!
That is a lovely coop. And as you said, to be a pregnant woman with no building experience, I second that Bravo!!
Very well done. Everyone should have one of those in their back yard. I love the way you set it under the shade tree, and I'm sure your chickens do to!!
And if it is coons, you'll know it shortly, because they will be back, That new fence will not keep them out. Not only can the coon walk right through it, he can dig under if need be. You have to fence the ground out two feet also. Here is what I had to do> Doubled hog fence (as he has in...