I've got 8 little chickens. Half are chanteclers, and half are silver laced wyandottes. They're still pretty young, at 1 month for the 1st half and 2 or 3 weeks for the others, so I've got time to figure out how to keep predators out.
I have an old barn that's designed to be a nice little chicken home, complete with a rack, some nesting boxes, and a chick brooder. But it's also an old barn with lots of gaps. Even after patching it up a bit, there are still some gaps between the walls and the roof, and there is a gap in the door that leads inside of the barn that is just by design.
Since I live in the country, there are lots of predators out there that might want to devour my sweet little chickens, and I'm worried about what might happen to them, especially since I lost a couple of mine to a raccoon last month. So I would like some suggestions on how to fortify my barn so that my fluffy little love bugs don't get eaten by some predator. What can I do to make it secure?
I have an old barn that's designed to be a nice little chicken home, complete with a rack, some nesting boxes, and a chick brooder. But it's also an old barn with lots of gaps. Even after patching it up a bit, there are still some gaps between the walls and the roof, and there is a gap in the door that leads inside of the barn that is just by design.
Since I live in the country, there are lots of predators out there that might want to devour my sweet little chickens, and I'm worried about what might happen to them, especially since I lost a couple of mine to a raccoon last month. So I would like some suggestions on how to fortify my barn so that my fluffy little love bugs don't get eaten by some predator. What can I do to make it secure?