What are the natural enemies of chickens? Chicken keepers need to guard against them in advance
Chickens are one of the important types of poultry in our country, and almost every household raises them, especially free-range chickens, which are now very popular in the market. However, when raising chickens, you must pay attention to natural enemies. So what are the natural enemies of chickens?
1. What are the natural enemies of chickens?
The natural enemies of chickens include weasels, cats, eagles, foxes, snakes, wild dogs, rats, and so on. Generally, carnivorous and omnivorous animals will eat chickens, so when raising them, you can keep a few native dogs or geese to guard against these natural enemies.
2. How can chicken keepers guard against weasels?
1. Keep geese
Some people may be confused when they see the words "keep geese." What does that have to do with raising geese? That is right: if we keep a few geese among the flock of chickens, it is very helpful for guarding against weasels, because as soon as a goose sees a weasel, it will immediately honk loudly, and not only honk, it will also call the others to join in and drive the weasel away, so keeping a few geese among the chickens is very effective.
2. Keep native dogs
Some people say that native dogs are the natural enemies of weasels. Although weasels can climb walls and dogs may not be able to catch up with them, having one is still better than not having one, because a weasel will definitely be afraid when it sees a dog. So you can keep a native dog, but if you keep a native dog, it must be tied up; otherwise, if the weasel does not get caught but the chicken gets eaten instead, that would be a bad bargain. However, generally speaking, dogs do not eat chickens.
3. Weasel traps
There are generally tools on the market for catching weasels. For example, you can buy some mousetraps and place them at the entrances and exits of the chicken coop. As long as a weasel comes to steal chickens, it will definitely step on a trap and be unable to move. Moreover, the traps do not have lethal force, but they are already enough to scare the weasel away. Besides traps, hidden devices such as glue traps can also be tried. After doing this a few times, the weasel will not dare to come again.
4. Fresh pig blood
Mix some fresh pig blood with poison and hang it near the village. Sometimes when weasels eat chickens, it is actually rats that have drawn them over, so you can first deal with the rats, and then there may be fewer weasels. There are many ways to kill rats, so I will not say more about them here.