Do you think if I hung something hard, like dowels or paint stir sticks, in place of soft mop strings and sail cloth, it might discourage them? Maybe danglies should be HARD?
CHICKEN QUESTION: Do chickens manipulate with their feet like parrots, sun conures, parakeets? Maybe to hang upside down on the opening of the hole and pull themselves in? Or fly high enough to boost themselves in with their feet?
To add onto the tunnel idea; if you raise the boxes up a bit, and just put a carpet covered (on the inside) tube, straight down below the entrance, small enough where the chickens couldn't flap and long enough they couldn't jump (maybe 10in diameter by 3ft long), a cat would be able to climb up the carpet but a chicken would not be able to.
Mick Fisch wrote:
To add onto the tunnel idea; if you raise the boxes up a bit, and just put a carpet covered (on the inside) tube, straight down below the entrance, small enough where the chickens couldn't flap and long enough they couldn't jump (maybe 10in diameter by 3ft long), a cat would be able to climb up the carpet but a chicken would not be able to.
Miranda, I think you have taken my suggestion from something vaguely sort of possible to something clear, concise and easy to implement. You are brilliant. To steal a phrase from Winnie the Pooh, I think you deserve a Hero Party!!!
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