posted 1 year ago
Is it best to not have any large bushy or climbable trees (ex. hazelnut or mulberry) inside a chicken yard? Does it attract raccoons to hide or sleep in the branches? It would be almonds, plums, hazelnut bushes, mulberry bushes or tree, loquat. The rest of the yards (including immediately outside of the chicken yard) definitely will be planted with many small fruit and nut trees and bushes.
I'm curious because when my 1/4 acre property was bare with only some ornamentals, I was the only chicken owner not encountering raccoons in my yard. We even sometimes left their coop open slightly after dark. Now that I have some fruit trees but no chickens anymore, we have raccoons coming every night to eat and poop.