How to Keep Predators from your Chickens! Homesteading Life Off Grid

[@OFFGRIDwithDOUGSTACY]

Morning yall, check back every day we will be here! Get your tea offgridwithdougandstacy.com

[@GoodTimesHomestead]

Nice to see ya building something. That's a Chicken Mansion!

[@teddiefrost9146]

Question: what if we live in the city, how do we go about raising chicken s?

[@dorismimiparker8632]

That is the Absolutely Best Chicken Run I've ever seen!! Fluffy Condo 101 with Gary!!! We need a new channel Homestead Projects Doug and Gary! Really we need it!!

[@cherylerabon4101]

Where can I find your chocolate tea and steeper?

[@phillipbingham487]

Are you Mennonite?

[@KAREN_FALLS]

Powdered lime gravel layered around the outside, will set up like concrete it’s not to expensive. Lay over wire on ground we did this and nothing can dig under it

[@GoodTimesHomestead]

That's a nifty tip

[@joycedwyer3799]

I love you guys. I would love to live your life. I live in Jeffersonville Indiana with my husband who has Alzheimer’s and my 93 year old mother lives with me. I would love to get away and be out by myself when they are gone but I am 70 but in very good health. I just keep moving. Keep it up cause you make my days.

[@mezenman]

I have never put juice to my chicken fences. Seen a couple raccoon prints this morning on their feeder. I’ll be charging tonight. Chickens sleep in a chickshaw. It has kept them safe.

[@WeeLee64]

Wow, those hens are living in style! Gary's such a talented builder.

[@davebrooks2942]

From the looks of it money is not an obstacle for that fellow. That's a good thing.

[@offgridwithdougandstacy1668]

from the looks of it he values his food supply, that is a good thing. Your money flows where your mind goes

[@fortitudinefarm]

It’s a matter of priorities. While I don’t have lots of money, I do have the ability to savage lumber and make things I need for my little farm. I make do as best I can and my livestock thrive

[@OFFGRIDwithDOUGSTACY]

That red coop was seconds on the tin and windows and door was laying around...people focus BY DESIGN on the wrong stuff. They should focus on the benefit if they see it then HOW TO accomplish it...✌️

[@kingscairn]

Great minds think alike

[@jaynejmj1286]

God bless your homesteads and you dear gentleman! 💥❤️🙏🏼💥

[@mpwoodworks3138]

Good to see Gary again, I got used to seeing him on Mom's cabin build.

[@nancyfahey7518]

I planted medium size mondo grass in the extra wire to keep from tunneling animals. Nothing can get thru it. That is one beautiful chicken coup.

[@shelleyparent4729]

We have put the wire down on the outside of the fence & it works good to keep critters out. Our chickens tunneled their way out, even with the deep bedding. To remedy the issue, we put wire on the ground on the inside of the fence.

[@kaydog2008]

Just remember for those who don't know. The further north you go the smaller and ferocious the predators get (like Martins, Weasels, and Shrews) so the smaller gauge openings your wire screens have to be and think of installing a solar electric barrier. Plus buried screens on the entire inside of the run as well for the shrews their like little land sharks. Lost a litter of rabbits to one of these tiny terrors here in Southern IL. 😣🤛😉

[@thomasreto2997]

We live in Pittsburgh and have 5 dual purpose Orpington hens, our predators are raccoons, skunk, feral cats, stray dogs, and bastardized children….can’t wait to move to our other house on 4 acres outside of Hilo Hawaii when our two young men graduate from college🌈😃🤙

[@silverbackag9790]

He’s got mink and weasels in his part of Missouri too. Saw one attacking a rabbit in our driveway during daylight. Also bobcats.

[@miguelpintadostanford711]

@@thomasreto2997 lol I wish you good fortune in Hawaii! And enjoyed your comment

[@denisehaley9271]

@@thomasreto2997 bastardized children ?! WOW... ok

[@christineosborne3155]

When Gary does it, he does it right!! Beautiful set-up

[@candicegaier2649]

That looks pretty darn good. You guys make it look so easy.

[@debkincaid2891]

It's nice to see that Gary is investing a good portion of his obvious financial means into a meaningful, satisfying, and rewarding lifestyle. Once he achieves all of his building projects, the hard work begins: successful, challenging, exhilarating and heartbreaking, soul nourishing homesteader lifestyle with the long view in mind. All the best to Gary & thanks, Doug, for sharing this.

[@jsmythib]

Love the channel. I ended up trenching about 18inches of fencing around my coup to stop predators- A really great idea. Now if I could keep the bear paws from ripping my 1/2 hardware cloth :) So far I have had a 100% survival rate. Thanks for all the ideas you put out.

[@jerrym1240]

Maybe create a molasses lick somewhere long apart from your coop. Using sorghum molasses (probably cheaper) it's stinky, sticky and sweet. Put a post in the ground, nail a leaning board to it with 3 sided boxes to hold the treat to the board. Might work. I know bears can smell better than a fox, a peanut butter jar inside a zip-lock @ 2 miles away.

[@vpbanjo]

@@jerrym1240 Have you considered getting an LGD?

[@jerrym1240]

@@vpbanjo LGD?

[@vpbanjo]

@@jerrym1240 Livestock Guardian Dog

[@denisehaley9271]

@@vpbanjo for a bear deterrent ? I don't know where you're at, but dogs don't do much to ward off bears in Michigan if they're hungry, especially a sow with cubs. Bears and cougars eat dogs. Better off just putting up a band of hot wire and turn it on at night.

[@ireneisbell2004]

I love it . Gary can get to come make me chicken run , lol . You guy did a good job.

[@neverenoughacresboergoats6581]

Love the chicken coop. From my experience though opossums and racoons can still get thru the wire. They will climb to the top for access the bigger holes. Putting the wire out on the ground does keep foxes and coyotes from digging under,

[@annamaybeekman5152]

THIS IS A NICE HEAVY DUTY SET UP FOR YOUR CHICKENS GARY. DOUG ITS GOOD TO SEE YOU AGAIN. LOVE YOU

[@OFFGRIDwithDOUGSTACY]

Love ya back

[@godsgreenacreshomestead708]

Good morning Doug, Stacy and Gary! Great job and thanks for sharing! Texas Deb, currently in Missouri!

[@karenbrooks9416]

I enjoy watching neighbors helping neighbors. As it should be.

[@elainecurtis3649]

Wow. Nice chicken coup! Thanks for bringing us along on this project!

[@peppernc429]

That’s a beautiful chicken coop and run! Awesome job!

[@carolnoe9037]

We had chicks and something pulled them through our chainlink. The top was covered too. There was just a few feathers nothing else. I learned the hard way about hardware cloth.

[@andrewsamanthamadison3320]

Dag on that’s a nice coop/run! He’s giving Carolina coops a run for their money! Nice straw hat Doug, I’m diggin it

[@uppanadam74]

Good too see Gary again!! Reminds me of ye old cabin building days!! Would love too see an update of Mum's cabin as we haven't heard anything about it for awhile!! :-)!!

[@christiebetts4970]

Good morning! Your music at the beginning put a spring in my step!I'm moving and need to build a new Coop asap.Thanks for the video

[@jakeschisler7525]

For cutting the tin i used a metal cutting blade in a circular saw, i started with the cutting wheel but went through them too quickly. We were redoing our building and each piece had to be cut. Then we moved from Florida to Missouri and i talked to my old neighbor and he said the new people haven't done anything on it. We had bought new sheets of metal and the frame for the structure also 2 walk doors. Oh well

[@michelewilliams6241]

Great job guys! Did Gary get hurt when he was cutting the wire? Hope he is ok

[@sueyates3555]

It's always nice watching you and Gary do a project together enjoy watching it.

[@brittawrolson5936]

Such great friends helping each other. Gary and Marg were mega big helpers with your mom’s house, so nice to return the favor where you can! They have a lovely setup like you and Stacy👍🏻 by the way, we never did see the finishing of mom’s house because of injuries, and then moving her in etc. Hope she’s well settled and happy. Also, whatever happened with your kids and the farm they built near you?

[@thewilsons9652]

Welp, now I'm in need of help! I didn't realize how important it was to not keep our chickens on the direct ground. Is there another video that might go into more detail on this topic? I feel like this should be a "Raising Chickens 101". Guess I missed the memo😞

[@brittanyash8340]

Wooh! I went on a trip back home to Saint Louis, and when I came home you all passed 700k subscribers! Awesome job. Stacy also inspired me to start fermenting, so I got a fermenting kit for mothers day! Thank you all for your videos!

[@paulschaefer5241]

I was once staying with my folks and we had an issue with one of our chickens that disappeared one day. we were sure she had been taken by a coon or something. then about a month later, we heard this clucking sound and low and behold our long lost hen was leading a brood of chicks around. it turns out thtat she was just setting somewhere in the woods.

[@mrssandlin3176]

What a mysterious blessing🥰 thank God

[@jeanburgin160]

This is really nice, Gary is good to his chickens. Nice halo around the sun. Slick way to cut the hardware cloth ... Glad you have helped Gary. Wow, that looks great!!! So pretty.

[@trashdog88]

That's a beautiful chicken coop

[@rosevinyard5679]

We (that's my grandson and I ) are working on getting a chicken coop and run done, I really like this one. Thank you for showing it.

[@gayle61766]

Looking so nice!! I’m starting to put my ideas for my chicken coop build soon. Thanks so much for all your inspiring ideas! 🐓

[@noellehedman5412]

Great to see you guys again! Beauty coop, Gary!

[@brendadulaney1519]

Hello Doug and Gary, thanks for the video, what a great chicken 🐔 coop !!!

[@davidscott8400]

Haven't seen you and Gary much lately, nice run

[@deirdrejohnson6865]

Beautiful chicken coop and run. Great job!!!

[@rickthelian2215]

Glad to see you back it’s been two weeks....😀

[@dkulikowski]

Love watching your channel. Thank you Doug for sharing Gary's homestead, very kind of you. Stacy I have made several of your medicinal recipes and I am doing sauerkraut today.

[@marykelley3806]

That was a fabulous way to protect the chickens. I liked the way the house fit in!

[@jjsadventures]

That’s exactly what we did!!! We have the hardware cloth all around the bottom of our run.

[@bonniedunkin-brady9358]

Haven't seen you in along while. Hope ya all are doing well. Thank you for sharing. Love raising meat chick's. Got 30 right now and plan on getting 30 more once these are 2 weeks before butchering

[@batpherlangkharkrang7976]

Hi.... DOUG nice to see you wow so nice beautiful chickens coop, thank you for showing your video homestead 👋 bye 👋 bye 👋 bye 👋 🌱🏡🎥👍👍👍

[@TheWonderwy]

Good to see the dynamic duo at it again. Hello Gary and Marge. Your place is looking very nice. The chicken house and new run turned out super! Nice to see you Doug. Been enjoying Stacy's videos, but you've been missed. I know, this s another busy time of year on the homestead. Still, you've been missed. Take care and God bless.

[@KansasOff-Grid]

That coop really turned out nice. Gonna build one like it. thanks for all the great videos u guys make. 😃😃🙏🙏✌

[@monicacrotty5282]

If you use painter tape(the blue stuff ) sticking it firmly to you metal before you cut it ,it saves on premature rust! The insulation he mentioned is called MBI ,which is commonly used in ceilings of metal pole barns.

[@catherinewesley6193]

That coop was so nice. What a great job and great skills there too.

[@rogerhuber3133]

Gary has a beautiful place! He sure does things with style.

[@TheRhonda1957]

I love the way you and Gary help one another. Awesome

[@stephenriley9084]

Doug, Gary, Great to see you working together on the chicken Ponderosa! Regards Stephen.

[@suzannefronzaglio2427]

Do people ever just line the entire bottom/ inside of a chicken enclosure with small holed wire (hardware cloth) and attach it to the bottom wood frame....to keep predators from burrowing down from the outside and coming up through the inside?? Would that be a solution to lay down wire/hardware cloth on the inside??? Wow, finished product is a very nice build (the large enclosure)!!! And the smaller A-frame structures are cool too! Thanks for sharing these great ideas for chicken coops/enclosures. 👍😊

[@lolasimmons9152]

Hi Doug and Stacey. I am so happy to see Gary in your video. It's been a while since you finished your mom's house, so this is a real treat. He sure has a really nice place with lots of room. God bless you from Kingston Ontario Canada

[@StoneKathryn]

Nice set-up Gary has! He and Marg are going whole hog into this homesteading stuff. It's great to see. I really like their greenhouse. That chicken run is awesome and they certainly made a nice chicken coop too. It looks gorgeous! Nice job all! Thanks for sharing this Doug!

[@kimberlydelagarza8899]

I want to make that little A frame for some chickens. I want chickens so bad!!!!

[@brendah4773]

Oh wow! The end product! Beautiful! ❤️

[@scottsmith6846]

Hey Doug hey Stacy thank you for the video I enjoyed it and it was nice to see you and Gary working together once again and it's always nice to see you back on KZbin Doug woo

[@grandmaofthree897]

I just cleaned my chicken coop today! Not quite finished. Lots of fertilizer!

[@elainedegoede6276]

Great to see Gary again. What a great chicken coop. Very nice work you two.💕🙏

[@darlingusa2pettee57]

Good to see you, Doug! Missed you and started to worry a bit. It's interesting seeing how different families have their farm-living plans set up. A lot of work, but the pay-off is tremendous. Thanks for the video and hello to Gary.

[@ladydragon3648]

Gary & Marg's place looks cool. Ouch I hope Gary is ok. That Coop looks great. Great job guys.

[@janicebrown3413]

Always good to see you & Gary working together. Gary's coop is wonderful. Say hi to Marge & Stacy.

[@danielleterry180]

I am only on a half acre BUT I built a 10x26 leanto put hardwire all around the walls with over hanging metal roof and even ran electrical to it, I raise my meat Cornish cross in there, have my hens in a 10x20 run also covered with hard wire and since run kinda chintzy I dug up 3 feet all around laid hardwire down and covered back up so nothing can dig into my hens. Use rest of back yard for my garden, started with 7 above ground beds,20 wicking tubs and 20 grow bags, 3 45lb tubs for potatos, husband said getting me more above ground beds and I am all for it 😁 I asked for pvc pipes to run water to all my above ground beds to make life easier. No bees seen or butterflies not sure what’s up with that so I am running around every morning pollinating my squash and zucchini’s, not sure why my onions are all falling over way to early no biggie still able to eat fresh and dehydrate, will amend soil with my rabbit compost and black cow and replant. Even if you just have a back yard ask yourself can you eat grass? How important is that grass when no food or to high to afford? Get it going folks unless your 500lbs and can try to survive for 95-130 days on that padding b4 your able to harvest? Good luck

[@sandramcleod9619]

Getting ready to build my chicken run...basing mine off of this video. Thanks Doug and Gary!

[@gregtisdell5747]

Great work guys. Gazza good to see you again🇦🇺🇦🇺🇦🇺🦘🦘🦘

[@monagriggs6352]

Thank ya'll for the great information on keeping your birds safe👍🥰

[@stephencudaback4548]

Nice job guys the coop is looking good love it from steve c from state Oregon thanks for the info on the tips on the coop

[@robincuellar1]

Wow that’s a nice chicken set up Gary has! Love the information that you have on your channel! Always love watching y’all’s videos! Thank Doug and Stacy!

[@claireisabell7287]

That’s a luxury palace for chickens 🐓! Great video. Lots of work!

[@moprepper5007]

Thanks for the tips!!! Gary, I hit my head, leg or arm with wire every time I cut. You’d think I’d remember to stand on the end of it, just once!

[@andrewjackson5437]

Hey sure like the chicken run. I hope you all are doing well with everything that is happening in the world. May God bless and keep you all.

[@genal5808]

Great video. Love when you all are working on projects like that chicken coop and run. Turned out great! Lots of useful nuggets!

[@pameladorn3423]

Awesome , thank you so much for being so open and willing to share everything you know! The one who watches over us has blessed your hands and a praise Him for it! All in our Messiah🙂

[@scottcraig77]

Chickens, building, and chocolate tea! All my favorite things!

[@juliad1768]

What a lovely chicken coup and run, great build xxx

[@HeidisHereAndThere]

Yep, My instincts were correct... I knew "Gary" had a few screws loose when I first saw the A-frame chicken poop coop, and I was correct when I saw how he was cutting the chicken wire. 🙄 Watch your back, fingers, toes, head... when working with Gary. 👍

[@darrinkerwin9078]

Awesome looking set-up, fantastic idea for when going on vacations.

[@susandennison2833]

I love how you guys help each other out. Thank you for sharing!!!!

[@Latebloomershow]

I remember the video where you were stretching the plastic!👏🏻👏🏻

[@donnaokeefe6463]

I love the homestead way of life and the community. I spent many summers as a kid with my grandparents that lived thru the depression and lived as you all do. I learned so much from them. I’m not physically able to do a lot of what you do but my heart is with you.

[@truckinut20]

i had wondered why no one uses a cutting wheel...thank you letting us know Gary and thank you Doug for all of yours and Stacy's informative videos...keep up the great work :P

[@peggyhaines7394]

Very nice build. I love it. God bless you and your beautiful wife and family. 🙋🏻‍♀️♥️🇺🇸

[@victoiredeleusomme4257]

really interesting with the eletric hook up.

[@carolfrecker5227]

I LOVE LOVE chickens. It makes you feel right at home, especially if there are more animals. That is some chicken coop!!

[@williambelton548]

Love yall keep up the good work yall God bless yall Doug and Stacy's yall are the Best..

[@asparks8056]

Happy to see Doug and Gary going at it again. I’m proud of Gary and Marg for getting into homesteading. I would like to see more of what they are doing. Doug your a great guy. You and Gary complete each other🤣

[@joesambrano7634]

🤠🖐 hey Gary n family , hey chickens , 💚

[@elizabethsydnor5247]

Awesome ideas, Stacy and Doug!!!

[@dundas9222]

Diablo makes a metal cutting circular blade that will cut those metal roofing panels fast and easy they are worth the 36.00 bucks. Home depot carries them...

[@sharoncorley5099]

Love when you all work together. The comradery and teasing is great

[@Latebloomershow]

Can’t believe you were just at my house!!

[@debkincaid2891]

Okay, a second comment: I just had to tell you how much I love the music. I am a banjo fan! ❤️

[@yahushaisking3606]

I just ordered all the wood I need for this build! Love the setup so much now I’m building it! Shalom

[@cherylcallahan5402]

*OFF GRID with Doug and Stacy (chicken coop) appreciate your videos Listening 🌟 from Mass USA TYVM 💙 Doug Stacy Gary*

[@joycemaurer3588]

Nice looking and functional run there!

[@aubreyward4855]

Great job! I would have added the red electrical digging tape to the top of the line though.

[@riddle8062]

That is a really nice chicken coop!! Great job guys!