Anyone else use a radio in the coop?

[silkie-mom]

I don't know about a radio, but I am planning to put a baby monitor in my coop so I can hear any trouble that may be starting. Target has some for 16 bucks all the way up to over a hundred. They even have a couple with video.

 

[links_56]

I use a radio in my coop. Never had a predator yet. I actually made a bet with my neighbor about it. Since we both got our chicks from the same spot the same day I bet him my chicks would lay eggs faster because of the radio. Needless to say I won the bet all my hens started laying just a little after 5months, one of his started laying after 8 months!! If you keep the chickens happy they will treat you right. Justin.

 

[crazy cat lady]

After last Springs flooding of fields I thought I had an army of raccoons in my yard hiding. Everyday I lost my ducks first , then some of my chickens. I have put a radio in the coop since then and was periodically changing statiions from talk radio to music. So far I have not lost anymore chickens. Hopefully I can put my new ducks over in that yard where the kiddie pool is. Radio works for me.

 

[scooter147]

I had a radio in the coop for years, it does not deter predators. I have the coon pelt to prove it.
It might help but there will always be the smarter one who figures out it is not a real human in there and have at what he considers his free meal. So don't rely on it as protection.
I view it as the fake owls, they work for a while but eventually the birds figure it out then sit on it and poop on it.

 

[Snakeoil]

I also leave a radio playing 24/7 in my chicken coop for the hope of predator control.

 

[al6517]

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I know it deters me

I would think it attracts predators, trying to detirmine the source of the racket and turn it off LOL LOL, might even attract the nieghbors Lil Bow wow and snoop doggy dog hehehe.

AL

 

[ivan3]

If the area smells like food and there is a radio playing/human scent (`marking'), etc. . It does not take long for the raccoon to associate one with the other and seek it out, instead of being daunted and frightened away. "Ah, Easter Egger tatare, and Howie Hanson's 2nd Romantic Symphony (or Tone Loc or Hank Snow or Black Flag) to entertain! As I tear into this fine meal..."

We use a baby monitor in the coop. Not only do we know the chook language very well, it transmits the roo alarm function, in lo-fi, as a bonus. Chooks do not sleep all night (turkeys sleep like the dead), if we hear the leaves rustling AND the chooks growling, we dang well know something wicked this way comes. Heard opossum's mating yowl (higher pitched and lower volume than coons) over the monitor about an hour ago (only one girl whined - not much impressed). They were quickly `treed' and retired.

The turkeys do like classical.

Music to my ears are raccoon claws getting worn down, `percussing' on plenty of hardware cloth.

ed:sp

 

[Bear Foot Farm]

No offense to anyone who likes to listen to it, but would rap music deter any predators?

It will make your birds lay scrambled eggs from all the break dancing​

 

[cmom]

I went and bought electric fencing when all I had to do was play a radio. I'm going to try a radio and see how my birds like it.