Hawk proof roof for backyard chicken run

Bamboo, zip ties and deer netting provide shelter from aerial attack for poor backyard fowl.

Category:

Pets & Animals

Tags:

• hawk
• bamboo
• chickens
• backyard
• chicken
• coop
• run
• raptor

[Bostoncrocus]

PLEASE explain the chicken heater. It is forcast 20 degrees here in toasty NC next week. I saw the upsidedown flower pot under the water jug. But I dont get it and am dying to know! Are you only heating the water and what's the heat source? Many many thanks for this video - I may have to copy your set up soon. We have a big patch of bamboo in our woods. I can easily cut some of that. Can you recommend a good way of cutting bamboo b4 I go ahead and do it wrong?

[djbarryiii]

Check out "Backyard chicken coop water heater" on my site for the details.. It explains the setup. Actually the heater started out as just a heater--the chickens crowd around it at night to keep cozy. Putting the water on top was a later idea that works great! It keeps the water unfrozen and keeps the birds warm, too.

[mattrex2000]

do you have any problems with raccoons or other creatures though?

p.s. keep up the good vids. im tempted to make a homemade sleeping bag like yours. any tips?

[djbarryiii]

Racoons are everywhere, but the birds were safe in their enclosed run...it was just out in the movable areas that they were vulnerable because there was no roof. Although I'm sure a racoon could get in pretty easily through the portable fencing. We only used the portable setup for daytime fun...at night they were in the fixed run, in fact they were locked in their house: totally safe there.

On sleeping bags: get a $75 sewing machine and just play with it. Rain Shed sells good materials.

[SassafrasHomestead]

Good setup. Where did you get the deer netting?

[djbarryiii]

I got the netting at a local garden supply shop: Johannsens.

[tucsonpersonified]

Your a chicken and I'm a chicken hawk and I'm going to eat you!!

[dixiefarmgirl]

a hawk got one of my chicks one time=[

[bonhommerick2002]

In five years, I've never had a hawk attack, so when I lost my first to a hawk, which I didn't realize,as I didn find her until the morning, I had no idea.

I put up a bunch of chicken netting around the fruit trees in their large yard. The damn bird came through a section not covered and got a third hen.

So, I'm running chicknen netting over every part of the yard that has the slightest open area. I believe the heaving leafed fruit trees are too dense, I think? I hope?

[djbarryiii]

Garden Girl: I like your videos, too!