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Predator Strikes The Farm From Above! What would you do? #chickens #farming #homesteading

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Stoney Ridge Farmer

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This video segment introduces a farmer's challenge with raptor predation on his pasture-raised chickens, referred to as his 'pasture sanitation crew.' It highlights that while ground predators like foxes are deterred by existing poultry netting, aerial predators (raptors) pose a significant threat to these biological control agents, emphasizing a gap in current protective measures.

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The real problem we're experiencing right now is I have a raptor issue and I don't know what to do. I'm going to take you guys over here to the coupe and show you um what's going on with this raptor issue. So, if you don't know about the pasture sanitation crew, this is around 30ome chickens that I hatched out from eggs. So, I harvested the eggs. I harvested the eggs and uh hatched them out in the incubator here in the house. All these birds were born right here on the Stony Ridge Farm. We have some Starkline poultry netting surrounding this entire area and it's approximately yeah an acre, maybe 3/4 of an acre, maybe an acre and and a quarter. I don't really know. Uh it's a very large area so far. No issues with foxes because of this awesome poultry netting. However, I cannot protect the birds from above. But I'm going to show you guys what's been going

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