We’re getting closer to
solving the rat in the
chicken coop problem.
Turns out bacon worked in
attracting the rodent within a few hours.
There’s at least one more
rat, but re-baiting with bacon didn’t work. I’m guessing because the
trap now smells like a dead rat due to a blood stain. Stay tuned to see
if a new trap with peanut butter can solve this problem just in time
for baby chick season.
Have you ever dreamed of
training your chickens to bring you shiny coins in exchange for some
kind of machine dispensed treat? Well that day may be close at hand
thanks to an exciting open source project known as the Crow
Box by writer and hacker
Joshua Klein.
It may need to be lower to
the ground, and it’s debatable if chickens are smart enough to learn
and remember a task like this, but it sure would be fun to watch.
Maybe having a group of crows
demonstrating the coin drop procedure would be enough for most chickens
to learn? Could they learn the same lesson by watching a video of the
crows doing their thing? Maybe a more practical approach would be to train chickens to bring acorns to a box that grinds it up into something the chickens can consume?
During the process of
spreading multiple chicken
pastures around our
perimeter we came up with spots that needed a door for our dog Lucy to
pass through while at the same time stopping chickens.
This new version of a dog
door to keep chickens out has been in service for close to a year
now and in all that time only one hen figured out how to push through.
I discovered in the
next version that 2 hinges work better than one. The door is made from
a plastic lattice material and cut with a coping saw.