Deterring night time predators?

[aart]

Hahaha, you bait he fence. That's awesome.

A bear needs to get it's wet nose/mouth on it or won't get shocked,
salty is a great conductor.. idea is to 'teach' them to stay the hell away from this place!

 

[Abbydeaton4]

Yeah i was gonna say get some motion detector lights and have a gun ready. I know it may be hard to shoot an animal but you got to think whats best for your chickens. I know we had a gun ready and had to shoot a fox for trying to get in out coop. There cute but not dealing with them killing my chickens. Do something asap though because my friend had about 190 chickens and one night she came out and like half of them were dead because of some animals so they are completly set up now. It would suck to come out and a buch of your chickens be dead. I know id loose my mind lmao

 

[cmom]

I had been locking my birds in at night but finally hooked up my electric. We had a visitor the first night. I think it knew because it walked around but didn't test the wire. The next day I added more hot wire. The date is wrong on the pictures but I moved this one and put a better camera up but no visitors here since.

 

[agedog1]

Fort knox coop, the only thing that could get into mine would be a bear, if that happens I will adjust. People who slap together a shelter and call it done are asking for trouble. You get what you put into it.

Gary

i tried the link but it didn't work?

 

[aart]

i tried the link but it didn't work?

The URL in his signature is not a link....needs to be copied and pasted.

 

[Henrik Petersson]

My impregnable fortress of a coop is all the deterrent I need.

 

[agedog1]

O.K so maybe I'm odd. Ms. Stella and i are going to Florida for her Service Dog re-certification and the annual Service Dog and handler Christmas luncheon. So I am having a young couple stay at my cabin and take care of the Chickens and Guniea. Yep I am a bit of a lunatic.

 

[jdlx4]

My coop has an automatic chicken door that I installed. It's on a timer so that it opens every morning at a certain time and closes every evening when the chickens are inside the coop for roosting. I then put an electric fence around their yard about 1 foot off the ground for any predators that want to dig under and then I put another strand of electric wire around the top of the fence and I grounded the fence just in case a predator tries to climb it he's going to hit the electric wire at the top. I concreted under the gate, and I made a scarecrow out of plastic pipe that turns in the direction that the wind is blowing. I also put a pair of old blue jeans on the scarecrow so that the legs flap back and forth in the wind. So far I haven't had a single aerial attack or any ground predator inside the chicken run now in about 3 years, day or night.

 

[cmom]

I swear by the electric. I have game cameras and I have seen predators primarily at night roaming around on the property but they know the electric wires are there and don't test them.

 

[aart]

I then put an electric fence around their yard about 1 foot off the ground for any predators that want to dig under

Doesn't that allow some to go under the fence without being shocked?