WHEN GOOD COWS GO BAD.

iammr.bill

monya wrote:

Faye, we have about 20 homegrown chooks in the freezer too. Normally we would process these ourselves, but this time I took them to a guy who did the lot, including bagging and chilling for $2.50 a bird. While he was doing it I went to the local town and had a chunky steak pie and a honey log for lunch !!

Joel, the goats are currently pruning the olive trees for me. I am pulling about 600 of the 800 trees out after harvest this year and then concentrating on making 200 trees really productive. Am going to fence them and run the chooks and geese in there for grass control and fertiliser. I must take pics of my new chook yard that took us nearly 2 years to build. It is about 400 - 500 square metres, and is fox proof and netted for birds. Currently housing 4 apple trees, cherries, plums, apricots, peaches, nectarines and grape vines plus my dirt garden. Has 7 seperate yards in the making (not quite finished :oops:

) so I can rotate the crops and chooks.

Would definitely like to see pics/plans of this. How does one fox-proof a chicken pen? Currently have my tame girls inside chain link fence panels and a Glock 9mm in a shoulder holster.

Bushy

Bill, Ive found the easiest way to stop foxes is by laying a chicken wire apron around the bottom of your pen fence, on the outside. No need to bury , just peg down with wire or a few rocks. Make it about 2 foot wide. The fox tries to dig at the bottom of the fence.
You really need to net the top too as foxes climb very well.

arbe

iammr.bill wrote:

Would definitely like to see pics/plans of this.

+1. I am very interested in this too.

monya

eventually i will take some pics, but basically as above, the bottom metre of the walls is double mesh, with the metre of skirt running out on the ground and pegged down. Then the top is netted both to keep the birds and the foxes out. If the top isn't netted, you need an outrigger of electric wire, so that when they climb up the fence they get zapped as they get to the top and let go. That will be how my next chook palace will be, as the area will be about 2 acres.

bryjjk

Look on the bright side, the cow seemed to have a great time in there till he was caught in the act!!

GBHTREV

chickens revenge

By Jo Toscano 3/03/2010

Birds hatch amazing plan

When a hungry fox sneaked into a chicken coop for his dinner he bit off more than he could chew.

The birds would have normally ended up as piles of feathers, but cockerel Dude and his three hens fought back.

In a scene that could have come straight out of the film Chicken Run, they knocked their perch table on the fox's head then pecked it to death. Owner Michelle Cordell, 43, was stunned when she went to collect eggs from her garden and found the dead fox and Dude strutting around unhurt with hens Izzy, Pongo and Pecky.

The mum-of-two said: "I've never heard of anything like this before. It's like the revenge of the chicken. The little table in the corner of the coop which the chickens perch on had been kicked over and was lying next to the fox's head. It seems they kicked over the table, knocked the fox out and pecked it to death.

"It was not a cub but it was only young and Dude and Izzy are big birds.

"I reared Dude from a little chick and he is very protective of the others. He thinks he is human and chases our dogs around the garden, pecking them."

or this youtube video for further enjoyment
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=vXi9mCwCxgY

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