> > Do you close them in a henhouse of sorts at night to minimize fox or coyote
> > or similar? I think that is the idea of the word roost.
> no coyotes or foxes where I live. However, there is a marsupial rodent
> that can sometimes eat chickens
> http://www.zoologiarn.hpg.ig.com.br/pgz7a.jpg
> and lizards
> http://fotos.sapo.pt/1eCA8lhz0V26hcFvCB0N/340x255
> that can attack then.
> I keep on a chicken house, yes... But just because I also do gardening
> in the small lot I have (25x30 meters, little urban lot in the middle
> of the concrete jungle) and chickens and gardening (and dogs) are
> mutually exclusive. The house I got for then won't protect against the
> big rodent or the lizards... Good I'm on the middle of a city, these
> predators aren't very common.
> -- T
That critter looks like an opossum (also a marsupial) with attitude.
http://www.insidesocal.com/pets/Opossum_md.jpg
http://farm1.static.flickr.com/23/24359966_819581de1c.jpg
http://gallery.photo.net/photo/7049901-lg.jpg
Dave
> > or similar? I think that is the idea of the word roost.
> no coyotes or foxes where I live. However, there is a marsupial rodent
> that can sometimes eat chickens
> http://www.zoologiarn.hpg.ig.com.br/pgz7a.jpg
> and lizards
> http://fotos.sapo.pt/1eCA8lhz0V26hcFvCB0N/340x255
> that can attack then.
> I keep on a chicken house, yes... But just because I also do gardening
> in the small lot I have (25x30 meters, little urban lot in the middle
> of the concrete jungle) and chickens and gardening (and dogs) are
> mutually exclusive. The house I got for then won't protect against the
> big rodent or the lizards... Good I'm on the middle of a city, these
> predators aren't very common.
> -- T