I had the chicken cage on the back porch nicely screened with bubble wrap on 3 sides, but tonight when I went to tuck the girls in (i.e., toss a drop cloth over the remaining side) the bubble wrap was shredded. Raccoons, I'm sure. Tomorrow I put on a better latch, before they figure out how easy the makeshift one would be to open.
When we build the hen house it will be a fortress.
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During WWII, BF Skinner trained pigeons to peck buttons that fired missiles at the enemy. Perhaps you could train the chickens to peck buttons that would trigger a hose spray or an electrical shock at the raccoons. Actually, a shock pad where the raccoons approach, turned on a night, might do the trick. My dad used to run a charged wire around his vegetable garden to foil large critters...worked fine until it got the neighbors' poodle and my mom grabbed the poodle...
Raccoons haven't been a problem at the new house, but we lost several hundred bulbs to the effing nutria from the ponds nearby. Nutria are technically good eating being entirely herbivorous, but I'm sure it's going to be totally academic as they're just big rodents. They're also too dumb to be trainable and they don't take a hint that isn't at the end of a large club, so the only thing you can do is use chicken wire or other mesh that they can't dig through. Poot!
Well, at least we haven't deer in this part of Eugene. They're all up in the hills on the other side of town, eating everyone's roses.
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