I had a small mobile chicken tractor for a few years with just a solar charger on it connected all the chicken wire on the tractor, hence the nose of any animal that touched the wire was zapped. I had zero losses. Just a thought, I would run the tractor along the perimeter of the fence and just clamp the hot wire to the main fence hot wire on each move. Stay positive. Cheers.
That's a good idea since we already have the main electric fence around that area! If we ever want to try again maybe we'll do something like that as an extra layer of protection
I am led to tell you...There could be a curse on the land because of sin committed on it going all the way back to it's creation. This would give the legal right to the enemy to send foxes to devour your harvest and provision. You can take authority over this by repenting for all sin ever committed on the land(which removes the legal right of the enemy to steal your provision) and then bless the land and rededicate it back to God. Do this by taking communion on the land and pour some of the juice, symbolic of Christ's blood, into the land. I've heard many testimonies of people doing this and have seen amazing results, glory to God! This is taking dominion over the land as the Word says for us to do. God bless you, your family and land in Jesus name!
You make a very good point, this land and area must have some stories to tell. We've prayed and I've annointed our home but didn't even think about the land😮 our town has a history of burning down in the past ruining booming businesses too. You are right we need to pray over our land as well and against any people who have cursed it or currently wishing for our failure.
Sorry for your very expensive loss. Deer will be able to jump over that fence. If you run another fence a few feet inside or outside that fence, it might deter deer better as they are not sure they can jump clear over the two fences. Might be cheaper than building a taller deer fence which should be 8 ft tall at least.
I'm hoping they don't try to jump but unfortunately know they can, our perimeter fencing at our old place was 6 ft but with an additional strand of barb wire hovering a couple inches up and we'd watch the deer scale it like absolutely nothing when our dogs would chase them out😆and that was in FL where the deer are much smaller! For now we've honestly hit our spending limit for projects this year. We made the fence copying how our neighbor have theirs and they said they haven't had a deer get in their gardens for the last couple yrs🤞
aww that's so sad. but those big gaps in the wires it's not surprising. you need netting or regular fence with a dig skirt and a wire at the top, and or a lg dog.
We used to use electric netting and it worked out for a couple yrs! but we sold all that stuff before moving & we were shocked to see how much more expensive they are now🙈wish we would've kept the kit. I think the livestock guardian dogs is the best protection . Unfortunately ours just so happened to be sick right now at the worst timing so we didn't want to keep her outside unsupervised.
Get you a German shepherd and socialize them when the German Shepherd is a puppy. Nothing will bother your chickens then. NOTHING, they are the best territorial dogs there are. German shepherds can be expensive, but you have to find someone like me who doesn't breed them, we just have them as pets and work dogs. That way you're not paying $1,500 each. I rehomed my dogs offspring for a couple/few hundred each. Good luck finding the much-needed protection for your remaining chickens, if you sell them or not they will still need protection. I have had chickens now for about 3 -4 years now.
Thank you, yes we've raised birds in FL for several yrs before moving to Maine. We have a great pyranese livestock guardian but unfortunately she has a tumor and we are keeping her indoors till her surgery. Just bad timing, our other dogs are seniors 15 yrs old each so they're no help😆 we don't want anymore dogs after this.
Before opening a business it is a good idea to learn about a business, so that means learning about chickens, and how to protect chickens. In addition it would be a good idea to learn about whatever eats chickens. I think the farm lifestyle is not, for you. If a fox ate your chickens then a fox must have smelted it, and saw it as well, and maybe heard it as well. Based on what you are showing on your video your chickens were left alone, so this is your fault. If I had chickens then I would want a dog to be near them if I am nowhere near my chickens. Because foxes are scared of loud noises, and dogs can be protective. The scent of the chickens is another problem. If you look carefully at a fox then you should be able to see that it has ears, eyes, and a nose, so you would have needed to find a solution to deal with all three parts of a fox, for you to be able to keep your chickens alive! I would not want a fox to be able see my chickens if I had any, and regarding the scent well I probably would have to experiment to find a solution.
Yes we have raised many birds like chickens, turkeys and ducks successfully for a couple yrs in FL so we were comfortable but we've also always had a livestock guardian dog to help out at night which I'm sure made a huge difference. Ours is sick and being kept indoors right now (I talked about why in video) so we decided to not raise anymore chickens or other animals in the time being. Best thing to do to avoid any more losses especially since now the foxes will remember our location🦊 maybe we can revisit the idea later once we have better structures to keep the chickens in.
@@ourvisionfarm2893 Losses could have been prevented if a plan was properly made out first. You have a sick dog. What the chickens were in is concerning, and I believe the smell was another problem. If you have anything else on your farm that a fox might want to eat then I recommend quickly looking, for a solution to hide it, so a fox cannot see it, and smell it.
@@TheFineLine920 I visited farms, but not everywhere on 1 farm, and do you want to know why? I will tell you why. I felt like vomiting outside. Because I was able to smell something that disgusted me. I was not able to see, and approach what made me want to vomit. I was told what it was that made me feel like vomiting. Just imagine if a similar plan was made then I think all of the chickens would still be alive, and where they are suppose to be. Instead of focusing on me well the focus should have been redirected towards the wild life such as foxes!
The chicken wire was also torn in two areas near the bottom of the pen,I would think a human would just go in through the door. The fence was still connected and hot but a fox could easily fit between the gaps. From what I read online foxes eat a chicken or two and then kill the rest to come back later😣 our property is sort of close to the road so Im not dismissing the idea that it could have been someone but idk, the grass was so long you couldn't even see the chickens from the road, only our Facebook followers would know we had chickens .
Don't give up!!! Hide Mini camera's, and I'd almost bet it's actually not critters. Have you not seen or heard anything about private farms? Might see foxes, but who released them.
I haven't heard about private farms? What does that mean? And yes more cameras is on our agenda for sure. We use solar powered cameras that are awesome, they're motion activated and catch any movements day or night! Just need to place some on that side of the house 😁
I'm sorry you lost your chickens. It's disheartening to put in so much work only to have predators destroy it all. There are many predators that will kill chickens - Hawks, Owls, Vultures, Raccoons, Foxes, Bobcats and others. They all use various means to access the chickens so you may want to do some research on how to protect your birds. You'll always have some losses but at least you can protect the majority of them. Raccoons are particularly clever as they will dig under coops. Chicken wire is not good - raccoons will reach in and grab a chicken and pull it through - killing the chicken in the process by shredding it. My neighbors have chickens and last summer a Red-tailed Hawk sat in a tree and would swoop in and grab a chicken during the day. Joel Salatin has a good method for raising chickens and keeping them safe. You can find him on YT. He also has a website and has written many books on natural farming. Good luck with your next brood.
Thank you❤️ it's definitely a never ending battle living amongst nature. But we learn from our mistakes & hope someone else can also take something from it😊
Oh my I'm sorry. Absolutely everything eats chicken. Even bears will eat them. Don't waste your time until you can better protect them. That electric fence won't protect your garden from ground hogs and rabbits. Invest in some sturdier fencing to go with the electric fence. Maine is not Florida. It's much more intense threatwise.
In FL we had quite a bit of predators because we lived right by a state forest but we were lucky we could keep our pyranese outdoors to help. We'll have to invest in fencing for sure to be able to keep the dogs out at night😊
Yea, we decided it's best to call it quits on animals for now and focus on the orchard/gardens. We have a Great pyranese which has been super helpful in protecting the animals back in FL when we raised almost every livestock possible but now with her tumor growth we've been keeping her inside till her surgery. And we have two other dogs but both 15 yrs old😆 no more dogs for us after this❤️
I had a small mobile chicken tractor for a few years with just a solar charger on it connected all the chicken wire on the tractor, hence the nose of any animal that touched the wire was zapped. I had zero losses. Just a thought, I would run the tractor along the perimeter of the fence and just clamp the hot wire to the main fence hot wire on each move. Stay positive. Cheers.
That's a good idea since we already have the main electric fence around that area! If we ever want to try again maybe we'll do something like that as an extra layer of protection
I am led to tell you...There could be a curse on the land because of sin committed on it going all the way back to it's creation. This would give the legal right to the enemy to send foxes to devour your harvest and provision. You can take authority over this by repenting for all sin ever committed on the land(which removes the legal right of the enemy to steal your provision) and then bless the land and rededicate it back to God. Do this by taking communion on the land and pour some of the juice, symbolic of Christ's blood, into the land. I've heard many testimonies of people doing this and have seen amazing results, glory to God! This is taking dominion over the land as the Word says for us to do. God bless you, your family and land in Jesus name!
You make a very good point, this land and area must have some stories to tell. We've prayed and I've annointed our home but didn't even think about the land😮 our town has a history of burning down in the past ruining booming businesses too. You are right we need to pray over our land as well and against any people who have cursed it or currently wishing for our failure.
Sorry for your very expensive loss. Deer will be able to jump over that fence. If you run another fence a few feet inside or outside that fence, it might deter deer better as they are not sure they can jump clear over the two fences. Might be cheaper than building a taller deer fence which should be 8 ft tall at least.
I'm hoping they don't try to jump but unfortunately know they can, our perimeter fencing at our old place was 6 ft but with an additional strand of barb wire hovering a couple inches up and we'd watch the deer scale it like absolutely nothing when our dogs would chase them out😆and that was in FL where the deer are much smaller! For now we've honestly hit our spending limit for projects this year. We made the fence copying how our neighbor have theirs and they said they haven't had a deer get in their gardens for the last couple yrs🤞
aww that's so sad. but those big gaps in the wires it's not surprising. you need netting or regular fence with a dig skirt and a wire at the top, and or a lg dog.
We used to use electric netting and it worked out for a couple yrs! but we sold all that stuff before moving & we were shocked to see how much more expensive they are now🙈wish we would've kept the kit. I think the livestock guardian dogs is the best protection . Unfortunately ours just so happened to be sick right now at the worst timing so we didn't want to keep her outside unsupervised.
Get you a German shepherd and socialize them when the German Shepherd is a puppy.
Nothing will bother your chickens then. NOTHING, they are the best territorial dogs there are.
German shepherds can be expensive, but you have to find someone like me who doesn't breed them, we just have them as pets and work dogs. That way you're not paying $1,500 each.
I rehomed my dogs offspring for a couple/few hundred each.
Good luck finding the much-needed protection for your remaining chickens, if you sell them or not they will still need protection.
I have had chickens now for about 3 -4 years now.
Thank you, yes we've raised birds in FL for several yrs before moving to Maine. We have a great pyranese livestock guardian but unfortunately she has a tumor and we are keeping her indoors till her surgery. Just bad timing, our other dogs are seniors 15 yrs old each so they're no help😆 we don't want anymore dogs after this.
Before opening a business it is a good idea to learn about a business, so that means learning about chickens, and how to protect chickens. In addition it would be a good idea to learn about whatever eats chickens.
I think the farm lifestyle is not, for you. If a fox ate your chickens then a fox must have smelted it, and saw it as well, and maybe heard it as well. Based on what you are showing on your video your chickens were left alone, so this is your fault.
If I had chickens then I would want a dog to be near them if I am nowhere near my chickens. Because foxes are scared of loud noises, and dogs can be protective. The scent of the chickens is another problem. If you look carefully at a fox then you should be able to see that it has ears, eyes, and a nose, so you would have needed to find a solution to deal with all three parts of a fox, for you to be able to keep your chickens alive!
I would not want a fox to be able see my chickens if I had any, and regarding the scent well I probably would have to experiment to find a solution.
Yes we have raised many birds like chickens, turkeys and ducks successfully for a couple yrs in FL so we were comfortable but we've also always had a livestock guardian dog to help out at night which I'm sure made a huge difference. Ours is sick and being kept indoors right now (I talked about why in video) so we decided to not raise anymore chickens or other animals in the time being. Best thing to do to avoid any more losses especially since now the foxes will remember our location🦊 maybe we can revisit the idea later once we have better structures to keep the chickens in.
@@ourvisionfarm2893 Losses could have been prevented if a plan was properly made out first.
You have a sick dog. What the chickens were in is concerning, and I believe the smell was another problem.
If you have anything else on your farm that a fox might want to eat then I recommend quickly looking, for a solution to hide it, so a fox cannot see it, and smell it.
And how exactly do you hide free range chicken from sight & smell??? Inquiring minds would love to know. 🤔🤔🤔🤔
@@ourvisionfarm2893you sound like the govt that wants you to eat fake meat & be happy. Be constructive. Get out.
@@TheFineLine920 I visited farms, but not everywhere on 1 farm, and do you want to know why?
I will tell you why. I felt like vomiting outside. Because I was able to smell something that disgusted me. I was not able to see, and approach what made me want to vomit. I was told what it was that made me feel like vomiting.
Just imagine if a similar plan was made then I think all of the chickens would still be alive, and where they are suppose to be. Instead of focusing on me well the focus should have been redirected towards the wild life such as foxes!
All dead?
Sounds like human intervention....
The chicken wire was also torn in two areas near the bottom of the pen,I would think a human would just go in through the door. The fence was still connected and hot but a fox could easily fit between the gaps. From what I read online foxes eat a chicken or two and then kill the rest to come back later😣 our property is sort of close to the road so Im not dismissing the idea that it could have been someone but idk, the grass was so long you couldn't even see the chickens from the road, only our Facebook followers would know we had chickens .
Don't give up!!! Hide
Mini camera's, and I'd almost bet it's actually not critters. Have you not seen or heard anything about private farms?
Might see foxes, but who released them.
I haven't heard about private farms? What does that mean? And yes more cameras is on our agenda for sure. We use solar powered cameras that are awesome, they're motion activated and catch any movements day or night! Just need to place some on that side of the house 😁
Oh no thats awful so sorry this happened 😢
I'm sorry you lost your chickens. It's disheartening to put in so much work only to have predators destroy it all. There are many predators that will kill chickens - Hawks, Owls, Vultures, Raccoons, Foxes, Bobcats and others. They all use various means to access the chickens so you may want to do some research on how to protect your birds. You'll always have some losses but at least you can protect the majority of them. Raccoons are particularly clever as they will dig under coops. Chicken wire is not good - raccoons will reach in and grab a chicken and pull it through - killing the chicken in the process by shredding it. My neighbors have chickens and last summer a Red-tailed Hawk sat in a tree and would swoop in and grab a chicken during the day. Joel Salatin has a good method for raising chickens and keeping them safe. You can find him on YT. He also has a website and has written many books on natural farming. Good luck with your next brood.
Thank you❤️ it's definitely a never ending battle living amongst nature. But we learn from our mistakes & hope someone else can also take something from it😊
Oh my I'm sorry. Absolutely everything eats chicken. Even bears will eat them. Don't waste your time until you can better protect them. That electric fence won't protect your garden from ground hogs and rabbits. Invest in some sturdier fencing to go with the electric fence. Maine is not Florida. It's much more intense threatwise.
In FL we had quite a bit of predators because we lived right by a state forest but we were lucky we could keep our pyranese outdoors to help. We'll have to invest in fencing for sure to be able to keep the dogs out at night😊
You’re going to need a trained Fox hound or some other dog to protect your hens.
Yea, we decided it's best to call it quits on animals for now and focus on the orchard/gardens. We have a Great pyranese which has been super helpful in protecting the animals back in FL when we raised almost every livestock possible but now with her tumor growth we've been keeping her inside till her surgery. And we have two other dogs but both 15 yrs old😆 no more dogs for us after this❤️
Oh my..........owls would get them too.