Chicken Coop Build: How To Raccoon Proof Your Chicken Coop

How To Raccoon Proof Your Chicken Coop

But be sure to check gun laws in your area first. I do have a raccoon proof coop however when the door was shut it was not latched correctly.

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I spent the past week adding some fail safes to the coop.

How to raccoon proof your chicken coop. After starting the new chicken run i decided to make it into a full chicken tractor. Wherever you would use chicken wire window areas for ventilation around the bottom to make the run use hardware cloth instead. You dont want to get in trouble with the law just for shooting a raccoon.

We were unaware of the attack until the morning and we lost all our birds but one. Put sturdy fencing around your property or at the very least your chicken run to deter dogs. Daytime predators are most likely going to be hawks or dogs.

Chicken wire will keep your chickens in but a determined raccoon can rip it apart. Use hardware cloth around the run and over coop windows. You can save a lot of time birds and grief by making the initial investment to predator proof your chicken coop and run.

This is going to be a raccoon and predator proof chicken coop. Placing bird netting over the top of your run will protect your hens from hawks. In which case you may want to keep that rifle handy by the backdoor.

I finished making the door and mounting it on. Some raccoons will just rip open chicken wire and enter at will. Raccoon proof the coop make sure the doors and windows on your coop have raccoon proof latches such as a padlock or combination lock.

If the lock requires 2 or more steps to open it should keep out the raccoons. You could also use something heavy like a cinderblock to lean up against the door. If all of the above fails ultimately you would have to consider whether you should not only eliminate predator access to your chickens but eliminate the predators as well.

Predator proof your chicken run too. Including an additional fenced in chickendog run. Hardware cloth is sturdier and more unbreakable.

11 chickens and 3 ducks are no longer with us.

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