Chickenmom-1600
In the Brooder
- Mar 23, 2024
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Hi everyone.,
We had hens for 3 years with zero issues. Not one thing of evidence of anything snooping around. We thought all was secure. The other day the worse happened. Out of the blue a mink turned up and killed them all in a span of 30 mins. I had been in to see them 30 mins before. All was good.
We loved having them and it makes me sick knowing what happened and that I wasn’t there. They were me pets.
I am not sure I want to deal with that ever again. But trying to figure junk of the best build the foundation of a new run.
Do any of you have hardware cloth cover in a cement foundation? I was thinking a base foundation with hardware down and out of run also the somehow doing the same on the inside. Do any of you have the floor of the run dug down with the hardware cloth in it? Then buried with dirt? I’m just trying to find a solution where no digging would be possible.
We had hens for 3 years with zero issues. Not one thing of evidence of anything snooping around. We thought all was secure. The other day the worse happened. Out of the blue a mink turned up and killed them all in a span of 30 mins. I had been in to see them 30 mins before. All was good.
We loved having them and it makes me sick knowing what happened and that I wasn’t there. They were me pets.
I am not sure I want to deal with that ever again. But trying to figure junk of the best build the foundation of a new run.
Do any of you have hardware cloth cover in a cement foundation? I was thinking a base foundation with hardware down and out of run also the somehow doing the same on the inside. Do any of you have the floor of the run dug down with the hardware cloth in it? Then buried with dirt? I’m just trying to find a solution where no digging would be possible.