Re: Chicken Coop Design

by Red Lily Tue Oct 24, 2023 2:44 am

Why not just let them free range? Sprinkle some feed in the pen before nightfall and they learn to head back before dark. Then just shut the gate.

by HawkTheSlayer Tue Oct 24, 2023 2:52 am

Red Lily wrote:Why not just let them free range? Sprinkle some feed in the pen before nightfall and they learn to head back before dark. Then just shut the gate.

That's how I always did it when I was a kid living in town.
But out here something will get them. Free range is hawk and owl food.

And the hawks are arriving in full force for winter.

by HawkTheSlayer Tue Oct 24, 2023 2:59 am

HawkTheSlayer wrote:
vege57 wrote:
HawkTheSlayer wrote:He had some heavy gauge wire cause the coons would eat through the wire.
He also had some food down grating on the outside.

After he moved, he would let the grating down on the ground. It surrounded the entire pen and extended out about 2 feet.

That way the foxes and kiyotes couldn't dig their way in.

We dont have any crazy critters in NZ, The odd ferret , But have only ever seen 1,
We got otters, minks, skunks.
Everything eats chickens or eggs. Snoicks( snakes) too.

A minx had me cornered last week at the market. But I didn't bite. She was maybe 30.
I found her phone number on my receipt in the bag. Minx are persistent creatures when they are hungry. Razz

by vege57 Tue Oct 24, 2023 4:13 am

HawkTheSlayer wrote:
vege57 wrote:
HawkTheSlayer wrote:
vege57 wrote:
HawkTheSlayer wrote:
I had a podnuh who had 2 of them . About 20 chickens in each.
He'd leave it in the field till they ate all the bugs, grass, and dug up the worms. Lol.
When he moved it the ground was bare.

Whats a pooda , You can run them over a paddock that you have had some stock in ,they will scratch up the pooda and spread it around lol

A podnuh is your mate/ friend. Lolol.

I guess it's Bostonian for partner.

Kinda like a fart here is a fot.lol.

""Kinda like a fart here is a fot.lol.""

Was at bowls today and a big fat old tart dopped a nasty fot up wind from me, just about scorched my farken eyebrows

Do y'all have Wal-Mart's over there? Coulda been the same one that blew my cap off down the Vienna sausage aisle. They might have transferred her.

Maybe ya thought it smelt like a mature vienna until ya heard her fat ass squawking lol

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