RedwoodCoastChick
Free Ranging
A trail cam can be very useful and revealing - and scary when you see who-all is lurking around the coop & run day and night! Watching our trail cam videos warned us in advance that our future chickens would need serious protection - we have 4 black bears, coyotes, gray foxes, raccoons, roaming dogs, bobcat and now & then a mountain lion traipsing up & down our gravel driveway and through our surrounding woods. And aerial predators as well - hawks, owls, etc. so alas the girls can't free range safely inside the ~acre of fenced yard. So, heavy wire fencing (7' deer fence) plus electric fence for perimeter, and 1/2' hardware cloth top, sides and underneath the coop & run. Plus carabiner locks to defy clever raccoon hands!Bobcats are quite diurnal, I too have seen them waltz right by the run during the day! I keep telling myself I need to install a trail cam up by the coop, I am sure all sorts of scary things are lurking at night!
So far, so good...No Sasquatch yet.