Electric Poultry Netting vs Predators
Vložit
- čas přidán 1. 05. 2023
- #gardening #homestead #Garden Updated PO Box:
Ryan & Cara
101 N Pinetta Dr.
#PO Box 35525
North Chesterfield, VA 23235 Why we do not free range our chickens & loss on the farm.
Links To Products Mentioned:
Double Spike Poultry Net & Solar Charger: amzn.to/3LIopZ4
Fence: amzn.to/3VjLoNn
Our Address:
Ryan & Cara
PO Box 35525
North Chesterfield, VA 23235
(We may earn a small commission at NO cost to you if you purchase through one of my links, thank you for supporting our channel)
We are not pros, just sharing our personal experience! Thanks for watching!
1. I want to hug Lucy! 2. Your baby peeking out shirt is adorable. 3. So sorry about your losses. We spot bald eagles all the time by the creek here but never in our yard. Lots of other critters wander in though. -Jamie
She is very huggable haha! Thanks the kids love when I wear that shirt ( I think our youngest is confused by it and thinks it is actually the baby haha ). Eagles are fun to see, just not when they are eating our chickens haha -Cara
Your chickens are beautiful Cara 🐓 I’m still to get mine, but will eventually when I get the opportunity. That’s so sad you lost some of your pets. I spy your beautiful bump too💕 Take care lovely xx Cathi xx 😘
Thank you Cathi! It is fun to have new animals, but defiantly a little sad to loose them too. -Cara
I’m so sorry for your loss. It is tough. We do free range our chickens, but we put them up at night.
Strangely all of our attacks have been during the day time.
O Cara, I’m sorry for your losses! Like you said, it’s part of being on a farm. Sadly. I’m not sure if it would work, but to keep away owls we used movement (handkerchiefs, windsocks) to keep them away and it worked 🤷♀️also, Are you expecting at the end of July? The shirt is adorable! Take care--lacy🤓
Hi Lacy! We might have to try something like that! We aren't sharing our due date, but it is this summer :) Thanks! My kids love this shirt, they always ask me to wear it haha -Cara
That would be cool to see a bald eagle that close. Minus the part where he was eating your chicken.
Indeed! My thoughts exactly! -Cara
2:02 YIKES!
3:41 It’s too bad you lost a chicken!
Thanks for the overview of the fence!
Thanks for watching!
We have coyotes here so our little dog has a small pen and she is never allowed out alone. It’s like you said it’s the country. Have a super week lovely family, Ali 🌥️🇨🇦
So far our little black dog Scotty has been ok, but he doesn't go out alone at night. Thankfully he does stick pretty close to our side. -Cara
Hello Cara! You sure have alot of predictors. I see it could be abit challenging to keep your chickens safe. I guess if an eagle can pick up a small lamb or tiny dog, its not good. Take care and be safe.💕💜💕
oh no I didn't even think about eagles picking off small dogs... our little black dog Scotty is going to have to be careful!
I love your videos! The variety is great.😃 will you be getting more chickens?
thank you! Yes we will be :)
Like #30. Beautiful work, amazing beautiful chicken farm, so nice yard, amazing chicken fence. So nice video. ☕️👍🌹🐔
Thank you!
Hi Cara, Oh no so sorry to hear about the loss of 22 of your hens. I have heard that if you have a goose in with your chickens they are better at keeping ariel predators away and warning faster than a rooster. TFS! Blessings to you and your family ✝🕊🙏🏼💖
Oh I will have to tell Ryan I need to buy grease now haha ;)
I would love to free-range our chickens, but we also have lots of predators here ☹️ Our current issue is a bobcat who recently got one of our chickens. It has come back several times since. Sorry you lost one of your girls to the bald eagle. It's always so sad when we lose a farm animal but like you said it is just part of having them. 😢
Oh no! I am sorry about the bobcat getting your chicken. We have only seen one bobcat on the trail cameras, nothing in person though. Hopefully they stay away from our birds. -Cara
Ohhh cara,sorry to hear that..😢 its hard sometimes when you feel like their nothing you can do to help them no.matter how much you tried to protcet them..our hens is jot fully free range.we made an inclosed run next to their hotel.becaue of predator.we also live in a country and many predator around.once in a while my hubby let them out but they all.scratch my flower beds and also including my neighbours so we need to babysit them if we let them out.😅
Indeed, they are back in jus the mobile coop with the run now, we move it around everyday so they still get lots of yummy grass. I just don't want to loose any more with the new chicks being smaller too. -Cara
@@bluebirdhomestead ❤
Eagles are majestic. I filmed one last winter. Sorry about your hen, she was beautiful. 💖💖💖
Yes they are! They are fun to see, just not eating my bird haha
I'm so sorry to hear about the hen😔 The sight of an eagle with a chicken in its grasp would be something!
It was a sight to see that is for sure, I just wish the eagle had been eating something other than my chicken haha. -Cara
We could never free range our chickens either. Same kind of predators, and while we had fencing (non electric)surrounding their run, and even on the top (to prevent aerial predators), a ermine (weasel) got all our hens. The ermine had created a hole in the coop wall, down low, and we didn’t realize it until later. It was a terrible discovery in the morning when I went to let them out for the day. Predators are the biggest problems. Deer ate our veggie garden last year (all of it),first time ever. We are electrifying our garden this year. Best of luck to you! God Bless!
Oh no! I am sorry that ermine got your chickens and that the deer at your garden! I hope you have better luck this year :) -Cara
@@bluebirdhomestead thank you ♥️
Nice setup.... sorry you lost your favorite bird but it's kinda crazy that a Bald eagle got it before another kind of hawk did... growing up, chicken hawks were the biggest airborne danger. Thanks Cara 🤗❤️
I have several family members who have recently lost chickens to hawks, I am surprised we haven't lost any to a hawk as well. -Cara
@@bluebirdhomestead That's a shame.. Can you use a top netting? I saw someone just tying thick lines from one side to the opposite side... good luck 👍
@@KathysTube That would be a good idea, we will have to look into that as an option! -Cara
I’m so sorry for the lose. I have a lot of eagles here in NJ. I live near the protected state forest areas and The eagles have their giant nests and are also protected. The population has increased greatly
They are protected all across the united states I believe, so nothing we could do except scare it away. -Cara
@@bluebirdhomestead It’s working to bring them back that’s for sure. They’re beautiful and fun to see. Just don’t come near my chickens or my dogs 😳
Sadly we lost nine young chickens from a gate malfunction I was able to get 2 of them out of eleven woods it was my husband's dog who thinks everything is open season sadly it was Easter morning it broke mo heart my family purchased me 8 more ❤️🐣🇺🇸🗝️🐤
Awww I am sorry you lost so many and on Easter too :( Thankfully I was home, so I was able to scare whatever it was off before it got any more of the chickens. -Cara
Oh wow you have so many predators 😮 here I only have foxes who trample on my plants 😂 squirrels that eat my tulips and strawberries 😂 oh the joys of gardening 🥰
One thing we don't deal with too much is squirrels coming into the garden. I think they stay in the safety of the woods since we have so many other predators around haha -Cara
Aw, sorry about your hens! 😢
Eagles are so majestic and also fierce predators! One of the fellas from the hunt club here on our farm said that all the other animals take a back seat when an Eagle is around! We have the same predators here too and use the electric netting as well.
They are something to see that is for sure! It was pretty cool to see it up close. I never realized just how big they were! -Cara
I 'd never put my chickens in that situation.
There is film of a Eagle picking up people!
oh my that would be a sight
BLUEBIRD, a man on yourube bought that very same charger you have and he Said when it rains the button hole fills up with water and if winter it freezes and the solar charger will NOT WORK. Maybe you should send it back and change it with different type.
This will be coming up on our 4th winter using these chargers. We have never really had a problem with that happening. In the winter occasionally it will not get enough sun if the panel is too close to the tree line though. -Cara
Add fishing string across the netting on top, the birds will stay away
Great tip! Thank you 😊
Please be careful with toddlers and electric fencing. If a toddler’s head makes contact with electric fence it can result in death.
You are a beautiful redhead. Very pretty
thank you
Hello. I appreciate the stories. So preditors happen in the daytime too. Wow a bald eagle. 🦅 I lost 4 chickens to a raccoon a couple of years ago. We have cages set up now. We have caught and released elsewhere lots of predators skunks, racoons and opossum. Have a blessed day. 🦝 🦨
Oh catching and releasing a skunk....that sounds like an adventure haha -Cara