My Breeding Project Blog - Frizzled and Laced Colored Egg Layer

[showbarnmom]

Fraggle #2..... His feet are rough, but not as bad. But I got to looking, and all her cage birds had ugly feet, no one else though. So going to catch and treat as we go.

New EE #1

New EE #3

New EE #2

Welsummer chicks

 

[showbarnmom]

A coon got all 3 of my new chicks. Dispite the 1x1 wire. I'm so mad I could scream. Wellies are really hard to find local!

I'm leaving for on a vacation on Sunday, for a week. When I get back,I'm designing a solid sided outdoor brooder. And I'm leaving my house sitter in charge of removing this coon any way he sees fit.

 

[chirpingcricket]

A coon got all 3 of my new chicks. Dispite the 1x1 wire. I'm so mad I could scream. Wellies are really hard to find local!

I'm leaving for on a vacation on Sunday, for a week. When I get back,I'm designing a solid sided outdoor brooder. And I'm leaving my house sitter in charge of removing this coon any way he sees fit.

Hey Lady, glad you are able to take a break...will be checking back in with you to see how things are going. Have you thought about or do you currently have hardware cloth around the bottom 2 feet of your coop/run? The coons tend to run in packs and chase chickens into corners where they can reach in and grab them by the neck, wing or leg...2 feet gives the hens a chance to duck away from their reach.

You could also use roofing tin turned on it's side and secured to your original fencing.
We also tack/lay and partially bury hardware cloth (or again a strip of roofing tin)...about at least 6 to 8 inch's wide along and just underneath the bottom of the pen, so coons can't dig underneath the pen and grab the chicken. Just a couple of ideas/alternatives.

Hopefully that coon is about to meet his match! Chirp.

 

[showbarnmom]

This is the cage I keep new birds or chicks in. I have no signs as to where they pulled them through at. It's up off the ground about 8 inches. Top latches.

 

[chirpingcricket]

This is the cage I keep new birds or chicks in. I have no signs as to where they pulled them through at. It's up off the ground about 8 inches. Top latches.

Wow! I know they can unlatch stuff...... again, wow.

 

[showbarnmom]

Yup! That's what makes me so mad. Set the trap with some old hotdogs last night, and no raccoon this morning. Argh

 

[chirpingcricket]

Yup! That's what makes me so mad. Set the trap with some old hotdogs last night, and no raccoon this morning. Argh

Soon as you get 'em....KILL HIM,,,KILL HIM!!!! Just sending good catching/killing coon vibes your way. Blast it all!!!

 

[showbarnmom]

Normally I release anything I catch about 10 miles down the road at another property. This one.....this one isn't getting released. I'm way to mad for that.

 

[chirpingcricket]

Normally I release anything I catch about 10 miles down the road at another property. This one.....this one isn't getting released. I'm way to mad for that.

 

[jockeyeba]

This is the cage I keep new birds or chicks in. I have no signs as to where they pulled them through at. It's up off the ground about 8 inches. Top latches.

Been there done that Hardware cloth with it's tiny little squares are the only thing those pricks can't get their paws through I had 8 9 week old chicks just disappear from a cage last year, just a few feathers were on the wire & this year lost 7 of 13 6 week old chicks because I had 1 spot without the hardware cloth covering it . I had the remaining 6 in a large dog crate but didn't cover the wire door with hardware cloth & 2 of them were gone & 2 more inside were dead