How to Keep dogs away from chicken scraps
It's been almost a year since
we
installed the Zereba K9 pet, lawn, and garden electric fence controller and we couldn't be happier with
the results.
First off I should say that
it only took Lucy about 10 minutes to learn when we first got chickens
that all poultry on the farm belonged to us and she was to never even
try to eat a chicken.
Food scraps in the new
pasture was another issue. She
kept being a bad girl, and I tried to plead with her
and build a better fence, but she was better at breaking in.
And then one day I saw the
Zereba K9 electric solution at a local hardware store and dared to
dream that this could send the clear message that I was unable to
articulate.
It only took her one shock to
realize any food scraps near the chickens were out of bounds. We moved
the flock to another pasture but did not need to install the K9 this
time as Lucy had clearly learned to keep a respectable distance.
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About us: Anna Hess and Mark Hamilton spent over a decade living self-sufficiently in the mountains of Virginia before moving north to start over from scratch in the foothills of Ohio. They've experimented with permaculture, no-till gardening, trailersteading, home-based microbusinesses and much more, writing about their adventures in both blogs and books.
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