> > She is gorgeous! Where did you get her? When we are moved into the new > house I want to get chickens. An how do you protect your chickens from > predators? I will probably need a movable coop. We have foxes, coyotes, > racoons, oppossums, etc. > Anneliese >
I have predator probs too Annaleise! what I am finding is if I get these smaller bantam types they can fly almost as well as a dove and when something gets after them they just go to the treetops. Also, I have some buff orpingtons, i dont know what there is about them, they are light colored so you would think easy to see and grab in the dark by predators--- but they have a great sense of how to hide or something! also, dont get any bantams or chickens that cant fly, cochins, frizzles etc. They just sit on the ground at night and get grabbed. I recently lucked onto a peacock that is my dream bird color-wise, a silver pied. They are very very expensive as adults, some are 300 bucks! He is a baby and I am protecting him like he is solid gold, keeping him locked up. But he is snow white and just glaring obvious at night but when grown he should be able to fly from a predator to the treetops like my blue peahen. The man I got him from told me I should buy a great pyranees to keep as a guard dog in my pasture and yards, that they will kill anything that comes in. But I am hesitant to take on another large mouth to feed and end up having it whine outside my back door all nite... but he swears it would work. Janice-- courage is being scared to death...and saddling up anyway--John Wayne
