Shooting Chicken with Airsoft Gun???

[NovaAman]

How about one, or a couple of those push through screens that they are advertising now? Make a secondary frame inside the garage, but won't get in the way of the door opening closing, and hang those screens, OR, by some screen, and staple it to the secondary frame, put some small sort of weight on the bottom to keep it hanging straight... that way people can push thru it, and the chickens see a barrier...

 

[Achickenwrangler#1]

Seriously if you are trying to change a chicken natural instinct to forage it's a lost cause, they make fences...you know. You never said what or why you want to keep them out of...makes a diff.

 

[theoldchick]

Blasting a mega airhorn will keep them out of the area. May take you several days to find them too. Teaching chickens stay out of one area is extremely difficult. They see food and off they go to get it. You can try placing those fake hawks or owls in several locations, but I doubt they will work. Some people hang aluminum foil pie pans but eventually the chickens will become desensitized to the spinning metal discs.

As an example how the chicken mind works:

My rooster gets outdoor freedom to give my hens a break from his amorous nature. He stays close to his girls but will wander into the horse pasture. Dink, the horse, normally does not tolerate intruders, but a stern warning from me limits Dink's aggressive behavior. While, Stan, the rooster is only interested in the morsels in the horse manure, he's also smart enough not to challenge the horse.

This is what happens repeatedly during the day. Stan see a nice steaming pile of manure and is eager to impress his gals and fill his crop. He clucks and calls excitedly and heads toward the pile of festering goodness. Dink pins his ears which Stan has no clue is an indication of aggression. I give Dink a verbal warning and his ears move forward, but he still is moving toward the rooster. Stan is ecstatic over his finds in the horse poop. Only a chicken can get that excited over feces. Dink arrives and gives Stan a bump with his nose.

Stan is horrified his hens have not arrived, but before he can think of anything to do, Dink gives him another more firm bump with his nose and roots the rooster from his spot. He repeats this until Stan is racing toward the coop with the horse following with nose touching the rooster's tail.

This happens about every 30 minutes until the rooster simply sees the horse coming toward him and he scoots out of range of the horse. Despite the horse's constant vigilance, Stan continuously invades the pasture, but as soon as he sees the horse coming toward him he makes a manly retreat back to the coop.

Those steamy temptations are simply too much for Stan. He continues to try and he continues run back to the coop with the horse hot on his tail.

Now if you have a flock of chickens, one bird will run while the others charge in for the morsel. It's not that they are dumb, it just how they are.

 

[lavender pekins]

what you couldis add a barrier high enough so that the chickens cant get in but small enough so you can get over it

 

[Pngzv]

I've managed to keep by chickens outta my garden by squirting them with hose but it's a daily watch. They try everyday. Sometimes I think they get a laugh messing with me

 

[ejctm]

You cannot really punish animals for entirely natural behaviour. The convenience is not worth your suggested method IMO.

I agree small fence. Or chains hanging from the door frame to form a barrier. Better keep them out (and happy) than spend your whole time being cross with them.

 

[The Poacher]

Yes, my son did. I threw his guns and ammo in the bin, threw away all his shooter playstation games, and made him write an essay (and research it) about cruelty to animals.

I'm sorry, I don't feel the chickens will stay away from that area. They'll more likely scurry around feeling stressed and frightened, but not knowing from which direction the danger is going to come. I had this problem with a garden patch, and in the end all I could do was erect a barrier. Occasionally they still get in, so I may have to net the top of the vege bed as well.

In any case, a water squirter would do less harm and probably be more effective, if you must use projectiles.

So I vote, barrier.

Good on ya Mama!!!

 

[Achickenwrangler#1]

anybody want to guess this person doesn't truly care about chickens? Not enough to understand them anyway...and who ever really believes a whisk broom would break a leg anyhoo.. me thinks it was something else. Like a hammer. Just saying.

 

[Jenn1399]

Agreed!

 

[cockblocker]

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