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Chooks

Keeping chickens beside the bush: quoll-proof pens, night shut-in and automatic coop doors, with advice from Australian agencies.

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Night camera-trap style image of a spotted-tailed quoll sniffing the fine mesh wall of a chicken pen while hens roost inside

Welded-mesh pen

How do you protect chickens from quolls without harming a rare species?

Quolls climb, dig and squeeze through chicken wire, and they are protected. How to build a pen that keeps them out, using NSW, Tasmanian and WA advice.

Sheet 04 · 6 min read

Night camera-trap style image of a small sliding door partly lowered on a timber chicken coop with hens on a perch inside

Automatic door

Do automatic coop doors keep chickens safe at night?

An automatic door fixes the evening nobody is home to shut the coop. It will not fix a weak coop. How the doors work, and what they can't do.

Sheet 06 · 6 min read