Comments on: Chckens vs. Tall Grass https://www.plamondon.com/wp/chckens-vs-tall-grass/ Including Practical Poultry Tips Wed, 27 May 2009 06:56:36 +0000 hourly 1 https://wordpress.org/?v=7.0 By: ivan https://www.plamondon.com/wp/chckens-vs-tall-grass/#comment-3288 Tue, 30 Nov -0001 00:00:00 +0000 #comment-3288 Once again I have been wiped out by raccoons. It took them less than a month after my chicks arrived to murder them all. Until I can get some beef or other grazing animal to keep the grass down in my pasture, and invest in some kind of hot wire system, I might as well give up on the idea of pastured poultry and just build an impregnable stationary coop and run, with buried horse fencing.

]]> By: ivan https://www.plamondon.com/wp/chckens-vs-tall-grass/#comment-3289 Tue, 30 Nov -0001 00:00:00 +0000 #comment-3289 To follow up, I decided I would not be defeated. I have a new batch of 25 pullet chicks from Privett, to go with the sole survivor of the massacre, who I am keeping safe and sound.

I ordered, and have received, electric poultry netting, and will be mowing the grass around the netting and around the chicken tractor inside of it.

If my problem was racoons, this should solve it. If it was mink, it might not, and I’d have to trap the mink. We’ll find out soon enough, I guess.

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