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To: Petronski

I would love to have chickens but the bobcat, skunks and cyote pretty well make that impossible.

ANy one with ideas to keep them out of a chicken coop?

Just got in from filling my pick bucket with red kidney beans...shell and dry... for winter chili...got another pick left and that’s it for this year.


73 posted on 07/17/2009 7:45:41 AM PDT by hoosiermama (ONLY DEAD FISH GO WITH THE FLOW.......I am swimming with Sarahcudah! Sarah has read the tealeaves.)
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To: hoosiermama

If a chicken run is built with half-inch welded wire on top, sides and bottom (buried), it will be basically predator proof.

Another alternative is to keep them inside a wooden coop and only let them roam about outside in your presence.

If you’re rural enough to have roosters, they will protect from skunks and weasels at least.

It would take some doing, but it could be done.


75 posted on 07/17/2009 7:49:40 AM PDT by Petronski (In Germany they came first for the Communists, And I didn't speak up because I wasn't a Communist...)
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To: hoosiermama
I would think a hound dog would keep the predators out of your chickens.

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95 posted on 07/17/2009 9:17:11 AM PDT by wastoute (translation of tag "Come and get them (bastards)" and the Scout Motto)
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