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Teila said:
Look what I got from hubby! I love it! Plus my own pink torch [I love pink!] and a gift card at the local hardware where they sell plants; going to use that for the final decorative touches on the ponds which are coming along nicely.
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Very nice, love the chicken art. Hope the steaks are tasty.

My flock got their Christmas present yesterday...the fence guys put up their new fencing. The center pole is supposed to be a 10 foot 4x4 post, they put a metal one in by mistake and will be out next week to swap it out :) Now to let the cement firm up so I can measure for hawk netting and "police" the area before the gals can enjoy the new play area.

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It's brown vinyl coated 6 foot tall fencing. the gate is at the left front of the coop.
 
sunflour said:
Very nice, love the chicken art. Hope the steaks are tasty.

My flock got their Christmas present yesterday...the fence guys put up their new fencing. The center pole is supposed to be a 10 foot 4x4 post, they put a metal one in by mistake and will be out next week to swap it out :) Now to let the cement firm up so I can measure for hawk netting and "police" the area before the gals can enjoy the new play area.

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It's brown vinyl coated 6 foot tall fencing. the gate is at the left front of the coop.
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Do your trees outside the fence have limbs adjacent to the one inside? If yes, you might want to consider chicken wire for your cover with hardware cloth around the tree. I had a young raccoon that was causing death and destruction, but took me a while to figure it out... He moved from a tree limb outside the pasture to the tree inside the pasture in hopes of a chicken dinner... His presence made the turkeys go crazy and knock down the fence where the coyote patiently waited. Coon is in the freezer, coyote has alluded me but not been back recently and the tree limbs have been trimmed.
 
rjohns39 said:
Do your trees outside the fence have limbs adjacent to the one inside? If yes, you might want to consider chicken wire for your cover with hardware cloth around the tree. I had a young raccoon that was causing death and destruction, but took me a while to figure it out... He moved from a tree limb outside the pasture to the tree inside the pasture in hopes of a chicken dinner... His presence made the turkeys go crazy and knock down the fence where the coyote patiently waited. Coon is in the freezer, coyote has alluded me but not been back recently and the tree limbs have been trimmed.
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The flock will only ever be let out there when we are home and watchful.
 
sunflour said:
The flock will only ever be let out there when we are home and watchful.
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Sorry, I had to throw that out there. Took me a week or more to figure out what was going on. Lost a turkey every day and never lost a chicken. I guess the stampeding turkeys scared the coon away before he got to his meal, and of course if he ran out ahead of the turkeys, he was then running from the coyote. Once I saw what was causing the problem, its was just a simple matter of setting up a chair on the deck and waiting... Problem solved and limbs trimmed.
 

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