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[flypen]

No about 70% silver

Awesome!

 

[roosterhavoc]

Dammm! Havoc I know how your feeling, that stings! I thought you had your hot wire completely surrounding the pens. Knock on wood, I haven't had a coon get through my hot wire yet. Sorry for your loss.

I did. Lost power for two days from storms. That pic is from a few weeks ago. I'm still on a mission
Obviously though the raccoons were hanging around for some time. I've seen the fence stop a red fox and he went over to the other fence and that shocked him enough to run off too. Just bad luck I guess

 

[alroy82]

If the cock is blue/grey and the hen is blue will my stags come blue and pullets grey blue?

 

[roosterhavoc]

Havok.

I have some smaller pens at perimeter my dogs are slow to get to for a disturbance. Thus raccoons get a little more time to cause trouble before pushed out or caught. With those pens I do not use a roosting pole where the raccoon can disturb birds and get them down of the roost and ultimately at side of pen where they can reach through to grab a bird. What I do is use a milk crate like you have for nest and locate it upside down at center of pen. Birds roost on that. With broody hens I keep the nest in the center of the pen as well. When using the pen for breeding, use two crates, upside for roost with second on side with lip added for nest site. If you need to collect eggs, then pull cage so side gets closer to opening of the nest crate then reach under without disturbing birds. This works very well for pens that are not moved frequently.


Another trick has been placing pens within 6 inches of the hotwire. Some of my hotwire is simply to provide a hotspot along only one side of a row of pens. Birds can use that side as cover when disturbed and the raccoons seem to have problem working the entire cage perimeter because they get zapped on one side of it. The only work the sides well away from the wire.

Didn't have power for the fence when it happened. The hen was setting on eggs in the corner of the pen in the crate. At of all the hens that were setting on eggs she was the only one I didn't move to the middle cause she was a little jumpy and I didn't want her breaking them. Whether or not that would have helped I don't know. I had also tried to get this hen to use a nest using a bucket but she wanted no part of it. D*mn good double spurred hen I lost too. Cock was good too. D*mn raccoon singled out one of the best pairs I had. Interesting thing is the pen was smack in the middle of all of them, not on the sides, front or back.

 

[sdm111]

nice!

he got a pr of sweater and a pr of Albany at the same time. Unfortunately the sweater cock got killed. By something, not another chicken

 

[roosterhavoc]

Im out resetting all my traps and coyotes start going nuts yipping and howling up a storm. A little ways off, maybe 1/4-1/2 mile I'd say. Directly behind my house. Nothing but woods and fields between them and chickens. That's all I need. Lol.

 

[Lauravonsmurf]

Morning

Just in case these pics pull at a certain somebody's heart strings

Sorry about your birds, that sucks.

 

[roosterhavoc]

Sorry about your birds, that sucks.

Appreciate it. The pic of the dead birds is from a few weeks ago. I haven't lost any since. Those two are the only birds I've lost in a few years. That's why I'm dropping the hammer on the raccoons. I've given them a break over the past few years but not anymore.

 

[roosterhavoc]

Morning.

 

[sdm111]

Clear em' on outta there!