Not sure where you’re at but you might want to upgrade your chicken wire to hardware cloth. Lots of predators can defeat chicken wire. Especially the digging variety. A fox defeated our friend’s chicken wire and promptly murdered all their chickens. Foxes can climb as can raccoons. We are in the...
In addition to the above, we have a large Embden gander named Tony as our guard goose. I like to call him Fat Tony as he’s got a sweet personality and his gentle with his large mixed flock. But there’s no question who’s the top dog. Even our psycho black Orpington rooster Lamar doesn’t screw...
We live in the Santa Cruz Mountains on 18 mostly wooded acres. We’ve got every predator possible with exception of polar bears and velociraptors. ;-) Our predators up here include: mountain lions, bobcats, coyotes, rats, foxes, hawks, raccoons, owls, weasels and probably a few I’ve missed. I’ve...