Reply To: Chicken Feed stop laying… another confirmation.

  • DeepSouthBamaGRITS

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    January 30, 2023 at 11:47 am

    I have a Great Pyrenees that is my Gentle Giant! She stays in with my chickens & rabbits. It is all fenced in with separate housing for the chickens & rabbits. She basically has free run INSIDE this enclosed area. I had wanted to let her run free on my homestead but unfortunately, this breed has a tendency to ROAM and forget to come home. I’ve had to search for her numerous times after the mail lady started giving her treats when she would deliver my mail so Sophie started following her WAY down the road and play with every dog on her way. She is very good with the animals and super protective of them.
    I like the sounds of your setup. I have a couple of those larger chain-link dog kennels. Got them free off Marketplace just to take down & remove, which I GLADLY did! All my animal housing has hardware cloth both inside & outside of the perimeters to keep them in & keep the predators from digging in. I buried the wire and then covered the outside perimeter with stones for extra protection. I’ve seen coyotes, bobcats & raccoons trying to dig around the outside as well as climb on top of the overhead wire on my chicken coops/runs. They are very determined pesks that I’ve watched on my security cameras. Not even the security alarms blasting (motion-censored) didn’t scare them away! I would put a tin/metal roof over mine if I decide to go this route since we do have a lot of rain here (Coastal AL) and blazing hot sun in the summer so they would need that extra protection from the elements.
    Thank you so much for sharing your setup with me! I will put it on my ever-growing list of things to do once I get my spring garden in the ground!