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[CapricornFarm]

I had a thought this morning.. And it didn't even hurt! I've come up with a new design for a bachelor pad and run combined using 4 cattle panels covered in chicken wire, with deer netting over top of the run and a tarp over the roosting area.. I work out a lot of ideas on a game I play..
Here's the cattle panel frame..View attachment 3085894

Chicken wire will allow coons to reach in and grab chickens...

 

[CSolis]

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He's in the middle of the photo, Dad right behind him.

Are they helping with the fence too?

 

[CSolis]

Chicken wire will allow coons to reach in and grab chickens...

So far, I've had good luck with the 16' round pens.. No body has been attacked in or near them yet.. Unlike the old chain link dog pen that was divided in half for two flocks.

 

[pennyJo1960]

Good morning Old Folks that is what I thought Cap she needs to use hardware cloth ..

 

[Alaskan]

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He's in the middle of the photo, Dad right behind him.

Good looking goats!

 

[pennyJo1960]

I agree they are flipping adorable as kids or when they are minature.

 

[microchick]

Raccoons will indeed reach through the fence, grab a chicken by the head, drag the head through the fencing and bite off the heads. Especially young birds that are still small and like to lie close to the wire on the ground.

That happened to our next door neighbor who had birds in a chicken wire grow out pen. Safer to use hardware cloth than take a chance. There is always a first time for everything when it comes to predator attacks.

@CapricornFarm. You realize don't you that you are vicariously supporting my desire for goats from a safe distance, don't you?

That little buckling is adorable.

 

[pennyJo1960]

I got to play Mom hen. I went in the peeps where out of water and one was loose ..
Brat was under the bed laying on the floor did not work .. Moving the bed I got her.
Moved them all in the other brooder it is shoeter but has hardware cloth to keep them in.

 

[microchick]

@CSolis you wouldn't have to use hardware cloth around the whole pen/cattle panels. Just put a row of one foot around the base and near the roosts so nothing can reach in and grab.

The neighbor (Young Amish Guy) asked me what could be biting off his broiler's heads and leaving the bodies and I told him raccoons....which we have an abundance of here.

Sure enough two days later he said he heard his dog raising Kaine and went out with his rifle. Sure enough, there was a big old raccoon up a tree near the grow out pen he had constructed. That was the end of the raccoon's chicken head dinners.

I think possums will do the same thing if they get a chance.

 

[CapricornFarm]

Raccoons will indeed reach through the fence, grab a chicken by the head, drag the head through the fencing and bite off the heads. Especially young birds that are still small and like to lie close to the wire on the ground.

That happened to our next door neighbor who had birds in a chicken wire grow out pen. Safer to use hardware cloth than take a chance. There is always a first time for everything when it comes to predator attacks.

@CapricornFarm. You realize don't you that you are vicariously supporting my desire for goats from a safe distance, don't you?

That little buckling is adorable.

Yes, Becky, i know that lots of folks would like to raise them! He is cute, but very determined to go where he wants to. I can hardly wait to sell him.