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Our rooster does a good job of protection against Hawks during daylight hours. He makes a strange noise and his ladies either hide under pines or run into the pen.@FarmerTan I need you over at our house, I've got a ground hog living under barn for longer than I've lived here [and he's huge ]. There is some minimum acreage for shooting things though which I think we are under (we are a bit under 3) but to be honest.. all my attempts at ground hog bribery have come to nothing so right now we have a detente
I love the idea of chickens, I am next to positive most people in our area use chickens for tick control with the added bonus of free food more than anything. We do have foxes and hawks (and owls?) in this area so the coops get a bit complicated as you have to protect from the sky and bury the sides to prevent borrowing, all told the practical upshot is we lazily mooch neighbors bringing by eggs
Ooops to your main point : Beer == good?
I've read that the best way to catch a ground hog is to use a snow fence to "funnel" them into a live trap.
The thing that they supposedly will go into a trap for is musk melon/cantelope because they like the smell/taste.
The few I've trapped I caught going through a culvert on my property.
They are extremely cautious AND intelligent. Just like my wife!