Look what we caught in our trap....

[aart]

Do you have wire under the pavers? If so, how is it configured?

No need for wire.
Just the rebar you see there to hold that paver in place.
Click on pic and read description, explains how this happened.

 

[WannaBeHillBilly]

Duck you Mr. and Mrs. Weasel!​

Did it! The duck house is weasel-proofed. First the doors (no, not the band!):

The door-stop before (left) and after my fix.


The gap between the upper and the lower door. - Guys i'm a consultant not a carpenter!
And square things are sooo boooring!


The gap between the lower door and the floor. That's not final, that strip will make cleaning out the duck house more difficult and maybe is a tripping hazard for the ducks in the morning…


This stuff and some steel-wool were used to seal the gaps between the roof-panels and the wooden structure.


Those gaps were large enough for an experienced airline pilot to fly through… Not anymore!


The house now looks like an overflowing baking pan, but who cares? Surely not the Duckies!
More pictures in my album: https://www.backyardchickens.com/gallery/albums/weasel-proofing-the-duck-house.7429122/

 

[Hughes Wildlife Farm]

Time to think about new chicks in the Spring

 

[aart]

Duck you Mr. and Mrs. Weasel!

Oh, thanks I needed a good guffaw!

 

[Mimi13]

Oh, thanks I needed a good guffaw!

Yes, that was quite clever!

 

[WannaBeHillBilly]

Oh, thanks I needed a good guffaw!

You're very welcome! Anytime again!

 

[Going Quackers]

Duck you Mr. and Mrs. Weasel!​

Did it! The duck house is weasel-proofed. First the doors (no, not the band!):

The door-stop before (left) and after my fix.


The gap between the upper and the lower door. - Guys i'm a consultant not a carpenter!
And square things are sooo boooring!


The gap between the lower door and the floor. That's not final, that strip will make cleaning out the duck house more difficult and maybe is a tripping hazard for the ducks in the morning…


This stuff and some steel-wool were used to seal the gaps between the roof-panels and the wooden structure.


Those gaps were large enough for an experienced airline pilot to fly through… Not anymore!


The house now looks like an overflowing baking pan, but who cares? Surely not the Duckies!
More pictures in my album: https://www.backyardchickens.com/gallery/albums/weasel-proofing-the-duck-house.7429122/

Looking good! I like your opening line lol. Do you have just chicken wire over some of those gaps? reason i mention is coons if they are around you rip that stuff apart pesky buggers they are. I see some are hardware cloth enforced so i just may not see it.

 

[aart]

Do you have just chicken wire over some of those gaps?

I think those are the 'before' pictures.

 

[Eggscaping]

That was informative! We haven't figured out how to trap a raccoon her either. We have Havahart trap, but when we tried it we caught and terrified one of our cats. We are in the process of fortification rather than trapping. We do have neighbors hunting them. Hopefully that will end the danger. If one gets to our chickens, we'll be joining the hunt for sure!

Use things your cats don't want to eat. We had success with large marshmallows (look like eggs), eggshells, fresh corn, and so on. In the bottom of the tubular leg-catch dog proof trap we used the tiny marshmallows.

 

[WannaBeHillBilly]

Looking good! I like your opening line lol. Do you have just chicken wire over some of those gaps? reason i mention is coons if they are around you rip that stuff apart pesky buggers they are. I see some are hardware cloth enforced so i just may not see it.

I think those are the 'before' pictures.

Unfortunately it is not the 'before' pictures with just the chicken wire…
When i hastily had to improve the duck-house in spring, chicken wire was the only stuff available to me, two farm-stores ran out of the 6' hardware cloth before i could get a hand on some, so chicken wire it was. There were really large open areas in the duck house to cover and doing that with the 3' tall hardware cloth was too much work and way too expensive, it would have required additional studs to anchor the wire.
That duck house is still work in progress, i want to install a "poop" door, so that i can just throw out the dirty bedding at the back, where my compost pile is located, but i need to develop some carpentry skills first. So far everything that i wanted to build square ended up in not being square, which is a bad thing if you want to make a door and a door-frame. I'm working on it still…
So far no raccoon was able to tear through the chicken wire, they tried several times. I guess it rather difficult to rip open the chicken wire while you are hanging at it. The duck house is on a steep hill and the sides with ground contact are wood and hardware cloth. Oh, and the chicken-wire is double layered.