Reply To: Chicken Feed stop laying… another confirmation.

  • soma_farms

    Member
    January 30, 2023 at 11:04 am

    I have a LGD that I just got last year. He still needs more training but I think his pee and bark has been keeping everything away so far. The worst time with predators for me is the end of winter so we’ll see. Anyways, they are in kind of like an extra large outside dog kennel (bigger than 10′ x 10′ – I forget the dimensions). When I set it up, I lightly buried about 3′ of hardwire cloth on each side of the border. They are allowed to dig in the middle as it’s a natural thing to do. They are not supposed to be able to dig out. There is, obviously, wire all around including the top. There is a shade tarp that covers half of it along with the back half of the sides to protect from wind. However, this spring I will be building a roof over top because we get a lot of snow here and even though I clean the snow off, I worry about it giving out in a few years or so. I have straw and heavy duty plastic dog houses in the back and the front is all natural which I just take out the poop. All my guys have been very healthy and I only ever had one issue with one of my litters getting like a congtivitis, which was easily treatable (I think it was because I used fine shavings so I stopped that and haven’t had a problem since). I have a tire in there a few braches for them to chew a mini pallet to put their food and water on to keep it cleaner. And they get orchard hay/Timothy grass/Alfalfa hay at all times. I love the colony setup but it is a learning curve with breeding.