Few Returns = Good Product

By now most of us have received our chicks and are on the way to having a fresh source of high quality eggs. The coop is built and the feeders and waterers are in place and you may have even set up the nesting box even though your chickens won’t be laying for a few more months. It really is a good idea to get everything together now why you still have daylight in the evenings to work with and before you start encountering any predator problems, it’s probably a good idea to start implementing precautionary measures to ward off a possible future threat to your chickens. We all do the best we can to predator proof our chicken coops so our hens can rest peacefully at night from a long day of foraging and egg laying but you don’t have to give a predator the opportunity to test your workmanship. Most of you are probably familiar with the Nite Guard product that has been advertised for a few years with an owl being shot in the eye with a red laser. This isn’t quite how it works but the bottom line is it does work. The manufacturer states that is will stop raccoons, owls, foxes, coyotes, cougars, and most other nighttime predators. The only real threat I have here in my part of Texas are raccoons, which although fairly cute are mean little suckers that have no problem with taking down your whole flock just to eat one bird. I have been fortunate enough to avoid any conflicts with the raccoons since I started using the Nite Guard but I also think my coop is designed rather well so my argument for the Nite Guard may not be exactly concrete. I will tell you this however, we have more repeat customers for this product who want to use them in other locations or for other applications such as protecting their gardens. We have shipped thousands of the Nite Guards out and rarely ever receive a negative comment or complaint from customers about the product. This makes me inclined to believe that it really does work. How does it work? The Nite Guard is simply a solar powered red blinking light that makes hungry nighttime predators feel uncomfortable because they feel they are being watched by something that might make them the prey. To be honest with you, when you see a Nite Guard for the first time your mind will probably be filled with doubt as you ponder how this tiny contraption could ever scare off a hungry coyote but think of this way; if you walked up to someone’s home at night and saw a tiny red blinking light on the porch you would probably ask yourself all sorts of questions. Is that part of the alarm system? Am I being video taped? Is someone pointing a gun at me? Come to think of it, they may make a decent theft deterrent as well (although I don’t think the manufacturer makes any guarantees for that purpose). If I were rate the Nite Guard on a scale of 1 to 10 I would have to give it a 10. Americans aren’t afraid to return a product when they are unsatisfied but they just don’t return this product and that alone speaks volumes.