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  1. LightningTFarm

    Tell How Predators Got Your Chickens. Save Somebody Else From The Bad Experience

    I have put 1/2" welded wire on the sides of the run, up 4 ft high. The house has a concrete floor. I've still found and killed two rat snakes this year, both over 4 ft long. Luckily the ducks are too big now for the snakes to eat them (I lost several ducklings last year), but they go after...
  2. LightningTFarm

    Tell How Predators Got Your Chickens. Save Somebody Else From The Bad Experience

    If you live where there are close neighbors, a 410 shotgun would be safer than a 22. It would put a hole in any pest, but not be able to go through the wall of a neighboring house and hurt anybody like a 22 bullet could.
  3. LightningTFarm

    Tell How Predators Got Your Chickens. Save Somebody Else From The Bad Experience

    My brothers were both in the Army, and both were Airborne, so we know all about carabiners around here. I got to learn how to rapell off the tower at Fort Bragg, NC. What a blast that was!!
  4. LightningTFarm

    Tell How Predators Got Your Chickens. Save Somebody Else From The Bad Experience

    Thanks a ton for posting these! I need new latches on my duck house door, and these will do the trick. The carabiner to lock it down is a stroke of genius!
  5. LightningTFarm

    Tell How Predators Got Your Chickens. Save Somebody Else From The Bad Experience

    You should check out sportsmansguide.com for netting. They have a whole section of military surplus at good prices, so you might find something there. I order all kinds of stuff from them, and I've been happy with the vast majority of items I have ordered. If you are unhappy for any reason...
  6. LightningTFarm

    Tell How Predators Got Your Chickens. Save Somebody Else From The Bad Experience

    Down here we call black snakes "chicken snakes", I guess because you find them so often in the hen house eating eggs. They get big here, and I have seen plenty of copperheads over 4' long down here. But then, we grow everything bigger in Texas! I am glad my dad had already put up the chain...
  7. LightningTFarm

    Tell How Predators Got Your Chickens. Save Somebody Else From The Bad Experience

    I am raising a small flock of Welsh Harlequins, my first foray into ducks. They are now 11 weeks old. I have lost four ducks so far, all to chicken snakes. I managed to kill three of the snakes, while one got away despite my whanging it repeatedly with a shovel. I lost three ducklings the...
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