beautifulpirate
Chirping
- Mar 10, 2016
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Thank you! I've had a few other people tell me to bury chicken wire around the edges I just haven't got the chance to yet. I've placed rocks around it in spots there's a noticeable gap between the ground and running boards. I will definitely take your advice though. I started with 12 chicks and lost 10 of them to raccoon's. First I didn't have the top finished then once I did I only had a hook lock on the door that they popped pretty easily. Since then I've installed much better locks and I found a really nice lady that was thinning her flock down that sold me some 15 month old hens. I still have two of the chicks I started with that are 9 weeks old now and are in the separate pen I added to the back. Once their old enough to join the others I plan to remove the separating wire and it will be one pen. I read in another post on here the "see no touch" method of introducing chickens and luckily I am already doing that. Once again I really appreciate everyone here! Thanks!
You are off to a good start in that you are so willing to accept advice and help. So here is another tidbit, switch that chicken wire out for hardware cloth asap. Chicken wire will keep your chickens in but won't keep predators out. Dogs, raccoons, foxes, coyotes can tear through it. And some weasel breeds can just slip through the large holes, as well as snakes. Chicken wire is pretty useless as predator proofing goes.