Anti-predator protection?

[GotGame]

something I am going to do, which will only work at night, is rig up a bright flood light that comes on every say 15 minutes or so, for 1 or 2 minutes, something like that.

 

[Steve_of_sandspoultry]

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Don't play Rap music.

Your chickens may start Break Dancing, and will lay scrambled eggs

I wonder about you sometimes? It must be the water in eastern, NC

Good thing it doesn't effect me. LOL

Steve

 

[Bear Foot Farm]

I wonder about you sometimes?

LOL
So does my wife

I caught one of your possums last night

When should I bring him to you?​

 

[brownysfp]

Thanks for your thoughts and suggestions - especially the one advocating an evening beer! Not sure how the flock'll react to Motorhead and Rammstein but I'm happy to give that a go. Joking aside, we don't have a fox problem but martens are a menace. Reckon it was one of those that killed the original hens. Cheers, Tim.

 

[Moabite]

Chickens like "head banger music" and prefer ale poured into bread.

 

[elmo]

Well, it has the advantage of being cheap, but I wouldn't count on it being effective. Even if the smell of humans is a general deterrent, if a predator is hungry enough they'll risk it, especially if they have the smell of a chicken dinner motivating them.

If it was me, I'd just reinforce the coop and hopefully be done with it.

 

[centrarchid]

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Elmo,

Predators maybe saying when they smell your leavings, wuss, chickens here are free.

In all serious though, they will only come in if they consider risk low. It is the poultry keepers obligation to make certain human activity is too risky to be around. It is our obligation we have generally failed at by not intervening enough when predators come calling. Otherwise the predator will invest more effort to defeat the coops engineering and likely be successfull. My losses occur when I fail to intervene.

 

[Steve_of_sandspoultry]

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LOL
So does my wife

I caught one of your possums last night

When should I bring him to you?

Bring it over now, I'll fire up the grill and ice down some beer. Before you know it we'll be drinking with the 'possum, cooking something on the grill and both our wives will hate us tomorrow.
Yahoooooooooooooooooooooo.

Steve