My neighbors chicken coop is a regular source of rats in our yard. it helps to keep our yard clean of anything they can hide under. we’ve also used stone underneath our shed and at other key locations as a foundation. we’ve found if we put a foundation about 10-inches down in the ground, rats don’t dig deeper than that, and they go away.. My next encounter with a weasel occurred 10 years later and didn’t involve actually seeing one — dead or alive, but waking up to find half my chickens dead. yup, a case of a weasel killing chickens from my coop. they had been dragged to all corners of the chicken coop — not eaten, but nearly decapitated. (naturally, hens and not roosters.). This has been a particularly bad year for voles on south dakota prairies! as bothersome as they have been, nothing is as bad as the badgers that have moved in! voles are a particular favorite of badgers! the badgers burrowed into the chicken coop killing more than half of our flock! had i left my barn cats out, they'd have killed them as well!.
Right now the local coyotes are busy with the dense rabbit population and the mink busy fishing out in the creek during these summer months. the biggest problem i have is an invasion of moles and i’m worried that they might harm my chickens. the moles are not very close to my coop, so i’m considering myself lucky.. They will learn to drink out of whatever a chicken drinks out of. the only way to make sure mice don't drink out of the chickens water overnight, is to dump it. step 2, get rid of the current rodent population: snap traps: i use these in my garage anytime i think there might be a mouse hanging around.. A chicken coop should not be heavily insulated from the cold, but rather be a dry place with very little draft. as proof of a bird’s capability in the cold, think of a chickadee. those little birds are a fraction of the size of a chicken, and yet can be found chirping merrily away in even the worst of snow storms..
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