Keeping Chickens Newsletter

Donna Irvin : These are our seabrights in their new coop we just finished

Cindy Greely-Wisconsin : Last summer was our first year with predator problems. We had a young coyote hanging around the neighborhood. He had taken several chickens from our neighbors in broad daylight and we had sent him around our house but he had not go to our hens. After coming home from a chicken show my daughter put her star rooster in a separate pen-he had been sold but they could not take him until the weekend-Saturday morning there was a hole about the size of a basket ball in the pen and feathers everywhere-and no rooster. We quickly re-enforced our main pen like it was Fort Knox. We also had electric fence running past one side of the pen---for the horse's fence-- so we ran a couple lines of electric fence around the parameter of the pen. Mr. Coyote did make one attempt to get in-we also set up our son's deer camera. He was not real wise as he choose the side with the wet, muddy ground-----he got a good zap or two form that fence-his paw marks were very deep in the mud and he tore out of the yard so fast. We saw him near our home after that but never near the barns. This also helped deter/slow our Jack Russell-who happens to be a slow learner on the command "no" and the chickens. It was a mean thing to set up but got the point across to the dog.

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