Re: Coons, corn feeders, and chickens ?
[Re: kyron4]
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05/26/19 12:07 AM
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I think the coons are unlikely to attack your chickens during the day, except in the Fall, when they are trying to put on weight for Winter. If there is any weakness in your coop, the coons will find it and exploit it at night to break in and get a chicken dinner and slaughter any chicken they can catch. I would keep a dog by the chickens or get a fence charger and electric fence, if you want to keep feedings coons nearby.
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Re: Coons, corn feeders, and chickens ?
[Re: M.Magis]
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05/26/19 08:06 AM
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There is zero chance they won’t try to get to the chickens. Zero. Lock them up tight or they’ll be gone in no time. X2, your chicken will die.
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Re: Coons, corn feeders, and chickens ?
[Re: kyron4]
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Great horned owls will eat them at night if you don't cover them from the air. I had a hot wire around my fence 6 inches off the ground for coon and grinners. Mink came a long way from water to kill my chickens. I ended up with an old corn crib that was a fortress nothing could get in and then I let them out to destroy my flowers and landscaping during the day. Coopers hawks even would fly in the door and kill bantams. The chickens went out in the woods to scratch around and I would hear a coyote grab one and take off and you could hear the hen screaming as it was carried away.
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Re: Coons, corn feeders, and chickens ?
[Re: kyron4]
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better make sure you have a roof on that pen, owls and hawks will eventually find it and wipe you out. Coons, possums, and dogs WILL one day at least try to get into your pen. Ive had about 25 hens wiped out in a single night by dogs. I now have tin screwed around the bottom of my pens to keep them from tearing into the wire. Im just about to head to town to go buy some 2x6s to reinforce the pen that meets my goat pen, that stupid bill has torn the pen apart head butting it.
Every time i think i have reinforced my pen some critter or another has found a way to create a hole, knock a board off or something. So whatever you think is enough, probably isnt. I think about the best way would to be run a hot wire around it in several runs.
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Re: Coons, corn feeders, and chickens ?
[Re: M.Magis]
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05/27/19 10:32 AM
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You will have more coons in the area in general because of the corn feeder. You might want to trap them out there.
If your coop is secure and the chickens are locked in at night, your main concern would be the occasional day visitor. Make sure your coop really is secure though!
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Re: Coons, corn feeders, and chickens ?
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05/27/19 07:16 PM
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secure them as best you can , coyotes are sometimes a day time issue if you free range.
with them secure set box traps and DPs around the coop that way when you do attract raccoons and you will attract them from a long ways. you generally catch them before they figure out your coops weak spot.
a friend runs layers and meat birds , he is a mile of field or further in every direction from a tree line but has a small stand of woods about 3 acre right around the house and barns.
I can trap that area out during season and a few months he will start loosing birds , I loaned him traps to put out as a land owner and with a DP and a box trap he took 16 over 16 nights then nothing for about a month and then one here and on there.
now he has 2 dogs that stay with the chickens he runs about 500 at a time in tractors , and every week or two the dogs have a new dead coon for him the dogs get the coons before they can get into the tractors.
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