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Post by Jolly on Aug 1, 2022 13:21:15 GMT
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Post by daw on Aug 1, 2022 13:58:33 GMT
Depending on the chicken breed they could fly over.
Otherwise I love the concept.
Here people gather yucca and stand them up right.
Yucca is very hard when dry. Placed tightly together
they make a very nice fence. Some people paint them.
I think it is wire that holds them together but that
is just guess work.
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Post by Jolly on Aug 1, 2022 16:50:20 GMT
Clip a wing, that's what we always did.
I also think he has his roof slanted the wrong way.
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Post by solargeek on Aug 1, 2022 19:18:36 GMT
Snakes, weasels, minks and on can get through that fence. That is useless unless you don’t have a single varmint going after your chickens.
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Post by fordy on Aug 2, 2022 1:42:25 GMT
...............Chickens NEED the protection of a Wire rectangle with ALL 6 sides keeping the foxes , coons , martins , ferrets and others from entering their compound ! Somehow I don't think Daniel Boone's 'Willow Stick' chicken pen is going to provide the protection that they need ! , fordy |
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Post by woolybear on Aug 2, 2022 12:20:52 GMT
The only way I could keep a snake out of the chicken house was to catch it, haul it 10 miles away to a wildlife management area. Only way I could keep the weasel/mink out of the chicken house was to accidentally run over it one night when it committed suicide by jumping off of a snow drift and under my tire just as I was driving by.
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Post by DEKE on Aug 2, 2022 14:26:45 GMT
...............Chickens NEED the protection of a Wire rectangle with ALL 6 sides
exactly. I've had a fox repeatedly try to dig his way under the coop only to have his feet torn up by trying to dig through fencing.
The coop sits on some horse wire fence that was ruined for it's intended use when a tree fell on it. Recycled to be the underside of the coop works great. That wire extends 2 ft in all directions beyond the edge of the coop and the chickens as they scratched and tossed stuff out of the coop have buried it nicely. |
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Post by Jolly on Aug 2, 2022 16:18:57 GMT
Y'all, I don't think they had chicken wire in the 1700's...
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Post by DEKE on Aug 2, 2022 16:42:20 GMT
Y'all, I don't think they had chicken wire in the 1700's... Tractor Supply and Rural King did not. |
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Post by Jolly on Aug 2, 2022 20:51:32 GMT
Rural King equivalent, early 1800's  |
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Post by wildhorseluvr on Aug 2, 2022 21:56:33 GMT
Chicken wire was invented in 1844.
It works a lot better at keeping chickens in than keeping predators out. For my chicken run I used chicken wire on the inside of the fence, goat panels on the outside, which kept out coyotes and stray dogs. Never had problems with other predators except for owls, and my chickens were locked up in the coop each night.
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Post by wildhorseluvr on Aug 2, 2022 22:15:38 GMT
Wish my grandma were still around to ask what they did with their chickens. (They homesteaded in ND in 1903.). Probably let them free range.
In 1906, when she was 6 yrs old, her job was to tend the grazing cattle to keep them out of the garden. No fences, presumably because they couldn’t yet afford to fence the farm, which I think was a couple of 160 acre pieces.
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Post by homecreek on Aug 3, 2022 13:46:15 GMT
The fence he is used is ok for keeping the chickens from wandering too far. But the key to a situation like this is having a great protection animal. Over the years Ive probably spent 6 figures on pens fences etc etc. But nothing has been as effective as a good dog. My blue heeler will not even let a cardinal blue jay squirrel anywhere inside the 2 acre chicken yard. He is worth his upkeep. I always built my brood pens out of chain link panels. The smaller stuff out of the 2x4 welded wire with some chicken wire around the bottom. The chicken wire to keep the panicking chickens from running around and running their head out so a hawk or owl can get them before the dog gets there. I also have free ranging chickens. If turned out when quail size they learn to stick to the thick stuff where flying predators cant get them and they stick close to the chicken yard so the dog is of help. I raised hundreds a year for a long time and lost about a dozen a year. Usually when under a lb and to feral cats. I have slowly eradicated the cats and keep only about 50 chickens now. My great grandfather never had anything but nest boxes nailed under a tin roof awning on the side of his barn. He free ranged every chicken he owned. He said thats what his folks did too. He lived to be 92 and died at home when I was 12.
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Post by joebill on Aug 14, 2022 5:14:49 GMT
Every single situation is different. I was able to raise a coop of 100 chickens and letting them remain outside until just before dark every night and did not lose a single one-on-one year. That same year and nearby neighbor had their chickens inside of 8 foot chain link fence with electric fencing over the top of it and that was the only thing that kept the Bobcats from going in and killing most of the chickens in a single night.
Mom told about always having chickens running loose in the barnyard and they were really good at hiding from local vermin. They never bought a single chick but always had plenty of chicks running around being hatched from eggs naturally.
In terms of raising chickens the rule is the situation will dictate.... Joe
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Post by joebill on Aug 16, 2022 10:49:13 GMT
what is a rasher of bacon?
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