DuckMama9
Songster
I just started a new job at a local pasture raised chicken farm. Our mission at Alcove Farms is to sow, grow, and restore. We pasture raise cattle and about 3,000 organically fed laying hens on 160 acres. We sell our eggs at the local grocery stores and farmer’s markets. We have been having issues with predator attacks from coyotes and hawks mostly and occasionally an owl attack. We keep two great pyranees flock guardian dogs out in the field with the hens and it seems that sometimes they run off the predators but we still have had some losses due to these predators. Coyotes are getting in by digging under the perimeter fence. Our farm is 160 acres of flat, open pasture neighboring flat open fields of cotton. We use four large mobile coops, although the not all the hens opt to roost in the coops at night...several hundred just hang out outside at night. Any suggestions to stop these predator attacks?