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In England yes. They have no raccoons in England.
In England yes. They have no raccoons in England.
I have seen my sumatra's fly up to 10 feet up easily. I doubt a coon could jump that high & if it was suspended by a cable from a tree (or something like that) I doubt a coon could climb down the wire and to where they coudl get one.
Raccoons climb out on electric utility wires; and I'm not sure you'd have a lot of luck getting chickens to roost in a *hanging* coop. I mean, you can still try it if you want, I'm just sayin'.
Raccoons climb out on electric utility wires; and I'm not sure you'd have a lot of luck getting chickens to roost in a *hanging* coop. I mean, you can still try it if you want, I'm just sayin'.
BTW, there are a few geese wandering around the fountain and lots and lots of bunnies in the underbrush that seem to do just fine.
The ones you see today did fine so far. However you don't get to see the ones that DON'T do fine (unless you can recognize individuals and notice their absence after a particular day).
Honestly I think that your bigger problem would be getting chickens to WANT to sleep in the type contraption you describe (especially if it's something hanging from a wire) -- IMO there is a pretty good chance that unless you are able to catch them and make SURE they go in there every night for a while, they may very well decide that roosting in trees is much more pleasant. Hopefully they would still stick around, if you are providing food and good habitat, but without a coop to pen them in for a while to make it easy for you to manually establish the roosting habit, it may be up to luck what arrangements they ultimately decide to make about nighttime.
If you don't mind some significant risk of loss to predators, sure, go ahead and do it. Just don't be fooling yourself about the extent to which these planned gimmicks are changing the risk, IMO.
Good luck, have fun,
Pat
The ones you see today did fine so far. However you don't get to see the ones that DON'T do fine (unless you can recognize individuals and notice their absence after a particular day).
Honestly I think that your bigger problem would be getting chickens to WANT to sleep in the type contraption you describe (especially if it's something hanging from a wire) -- IMO there is a pretty good chance that unless you are able to catch them and make SURE they go in there every night for a while, they may very well decide that roosting in trees is much more pleasant. Hopefully they would still stick around, if you are providing food and good habitat, but without a coop to pen them in for a while to make it easy for you to manually establish the roosting habit, it may be up to luck what arrangements they ultimately decide to make about nighttime.
If you don't mind some significant risk of loss to predators, sure, go ahead and do it. Just don't be fooling yourself about the extent to which these planned gimmicks are changing the risk, IMO.
Good luck, have fun,
Pat
