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Backyard Chickens (and Other Birds)English · 10 months ago

The raccoon "proof" door on our main (chicken) house.

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The raccoon "proof" door on our main (chicken) house.

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Backyard Chickens (and Other Birds)English · 10 months ago

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At list a few chickens to raccoons early in the season. They were taken outside. When you improve security raccoons can get more aggressive so I beefed up the summer door on the house.

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I think our raccoons are too lazy and too opportunistic to worry about that. The new door has been on for months. They never took a chicken inside, only ones that managed to stay outside overnight. It’s a real concern but hasn’t been a problem yet.

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