07-02-2007, 10:29 PM
Aloha,
This really interests me. I planned on having a few free range chickens in Fern Forest when I move there.
Are mongooses at all the altitudes? I have seen them when I was there in Kapoho.
I planned on having a chicken coop for about half a dozen chickens. I saw an article in MotherEarth News about one using a dog house with an area surrounded by chicken wire that you can drag to different locations and the chickens would be safe, never leaving the coop, but I forgot about mongooses.
I know that squirrels here in NC chew right through aluminum to get where they want to go, so I suppose a mongoose looking into a coop with baby chicks and eggs would be tempting enough for him to start chewing the chicken wire. How cunning are they?
Jean Hopper
This really interests me. I planned on having a few free range chickens in Fern Forest when I move there.
Are mongooses at all the altitudes? I have seen them when I was there in Kapoho.
I planned on having a chicken coop for about half a dozen chickens. I saw an article in MotherEarth News about one using a dog house with an area surrounded by chicken wire that you can drag to different locations and the chickens would be safe, never leaving the coop, but I forgot about mongooses.
I know that squirrels here in NC chew right through aluminum to get where they want to go, so I suppose a mongoose looking into a coop with baby chicks and eggs would be tempting enough for him to start chewing the chicken wire. How cunning are they?
Jean Hopper
Jean Hopper