Rewiring The Chicken Electric Fence To Stop Raccoon Attacks
Raccoons have been invading the off grid homestead again and have attacked my chickens so I had to put them back in the chicken run and rewire the electric fence.
I had my chickens free ranging all this time in order to save money of chicken feed. And the birds have not given me a single egg all summer so there was no gain. I figure it is the near 100 degree heat all summer with high humidity at my place that kept the chickens from laying eggs.
A raccoon was eating my chickens so I put them all back into the original chicken run until I finish the larger electric fence around the entire meadow.
While I was talking to you on the camera, a hawk came down and was eating one of the chickens that the coon killed last night. I chased it away and came back to the camera.
I spent the entire day rewiring the electric fence to protect the chickens from predators. I had cut holes in the fence in places to let chickens out or to work on something here and there.
I repaired all the holes in the fencing and then wired up the new electric fence wire around the bantam pen as well.
I went across the garden to close the back door to the predators. Now my bantams, normal chickens and the garden are all off limits to predators.
I lost most of my silkie chickens to some odd disease within the first three days after releasing them. I have no idea if they ate something bad or got sick.
I will keep the chickens in the original chicken run until the entire meadow fence line is fully finished. No more risks.
One note though is that I did not have a single hawk attack while the chickens were out. I had feared this earlier but the chickens kept themselves near cover at all times in the brush.
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