5:30 am wake up call - and subsequent mini panic attack :-)

[chseeads]

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All this says the "Peaguy"......hehe.

 

[chickensioux]

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Is this an explanation of your username?

 

[zavierchick]

about the username posts!

sorry I haven't been back to post - crazy weekend! Mr Fox has not been back (or the girls haven't reacted, but I doubt that is the case LOL!) since that morning - I have no idea why, we haven't done anything yet to slow him down! Possibly decided he wasn't going to get to them, the coop is pretty well battened down. I will snag some pics, although we are going to be building a completely enclosed coop for winter anyway (and that project got moved up ALOT because our girls have decided to welcome the sun every morning at 5:30 am with the most raucous noise I believe I have ever heard

) Which is a WHOLE 'nother thread....

 

[For-The-Love-Of-Chickens]

My boys pee on the trees and the fence around the coop every couple of days. (They think it is one of the privileges of being boys in the country!) It works! We live on the top of a hill and the woods that run between our neighbors house and ours butts right up to the chicken yard fence. So far we have not had any wild predators lurking around!

It rained today, so I will have to tell them that a reapplication of predator repellent is needed!

 

[eggsited chickens]

We have a dog. He has free range of most of the yard. The chicken coop is blocked off. But since we have had our dogs the ground hogs, moles (for the most part) skunks, and coons have kept their distance. Our dog is a male, so he marks his territory all the time.

A couple weeks ago a young coon did come onto our property, came within a few feet of our coop, the dog heard it and ended up, in the end, treed it. I even put out golden malrin with eggs (careful where you put this...it will kill anything that eats it within minutes!), and that was out for two days or more....all i caught were flies and I haven't heard anything either. Our dog has great ears!!!

 

[Sillystunt]

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[chookchick]

Sounds like you need to cover up at least the bottom of your coop so the predators can't see in and the birds can't see the predators. I feel really uncomfortable even thinking about predators getting a good look inside the coop. Is there a way you can do that and still get enough ventilation? I think if the birds can't see the animal, and they can't see him, you will have early morning peace once again. I doubt if anything less than lead would keep them away once they've found the birds.

 

[NewHomesteader]

Hi, I'm new at this but I was wondering if my girls are safe during the day except for hawks. I lock them up well at night but I do let them free range during the day when I'm home. This might be stupid, but do foxes come for them during the day or just at night? I just asked my boys to go pee around the coop...they were very happy to hear that