I'm in the Valley, I am planing on a mister to deal with the heat. We are interning winter, I'm not to worried about winter, summer on the other hand is another subject.
I am also concerned about predictors. I live in the hunting grounds of a great Horned owl and at lest 2 hawks that winter here. As a full grown chicken will they reman on there dining list? I am quite sure that they are on the owl. He is big, when he lands on the wall in back I see its full size. Coyotes I have always back of mind. I have always had big dogs, such as Great Danes, no problem with coyotes. Now I have a small dog. People around here are afraid of coyotes making them brave and bolder then they should be. They are afraid of me, they know my body language, I will not be there 24/7. I have a covered run.
I have been thinking about getting a DOG again so I can leave the chickens out of the covered chicken run longer. Has anyone found that their dog is a deterrent to predictors? I want to wait a couple of years, right now before I add to my family again, any animal is a commitment. Note that we do not have the coyote population as Sun City West, they have a lot of bunnies and golf course habitat. Even if you do not see them they are there as well. A daytime snatch and run is Possable.
I am also concerned about predictors. I live in the hunting grounds of a great Horned owl and at lest 2 hawks that winter here. As a full grown chicken will they reman on there dining list? I am quite sure that they are on the owl. He is big, when he lands on the wall in back I see its full size. Coyotes I have always back of mind. I have always had big dogs, such as Great Danes, no problem with coyotes. Now I have a small dog. People around here are afraid of coyotes making them brave and bolder then they should be. They are afraid of me, they know my body language, I will not be there 24/7. I have a covered run.
I have been thinking about getting a DOG again so I can leave the chickens out of the covered chicken run longer. Has anyone found that their dog is a deterrent to predictors? I want to wait a couple of years, right now before I add to my family again, any animal is a commitment. Note that we do not have the coyote population as Sun City West, they have a lot of bunnies and golf course habitat. Even if you do not see them they are there as well. A daytime snatch and run is Possable.