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Good luck with it mate!
Man, sorry for the loss of your duck. Strengthening the housing for your livestock is essential. I wish you the best my friend.
Wow. That's unfortunate. Hopefully that'll be the only loss you suffer from these buggers. Where we live in Sydney, we're close enough to the bush, but you still see these guys on the nature strip in suburbia.
Can you kill those snakes? My wife would have came and got a gun dug a hole and planted flowers over it.
Awww man. I was hoping to avoid closing my run in at the top. You just convinced me!
Hello Mark, we just had this happen this last weekend. We are in the Redlands in SE Queensland and we started off with 6 pullets & 1 cockerel. We now have Jack & Jill . They are so nervous of everywhere, including their coup where the first attack happened. We even thought we lost them for one day as they hid so well in the grass. We know it is a goanna as the only tree which has branches over the chicken area had broken branches as it is not that big yet. The attacks are also happening during the day.Our solution is to put star pickets on the ground over the "poorman's dog fence wire" and pin them down with tent pegs, cut back all trees with branches over the yard, and to put barb wire on the top & middle of the fence on the outside of the yard. I will let you know how we go but so far so good.
I always recommend using 12.5mm X 12.5mm Aviary wire for any enclosure to keep out snakes, monitor lizard's or other predators. It's strong and sturdy, plus the predators can't fit through it.
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