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The issue is there seem to be animals - I suspect raccoons, much as I love them breaching the perimeter. So every day it's a potential surprise, a new escape spot. It's quite awhile to do a full perimeter check, and even when I have, I've missed some hard to see spots.
The solution we're going with is cameras. They don't wander far quickly. All I need to do is as soon as I find they are missing (things get quiet out my window) roll back the cameras and see how they got out.
Edit: They are remarkably stupid animals, with very short memories, and gluttony overrides any good sense they might otherwise have. Ergo, it is easy to lure them back with dried grubs. 
To err is human. Fortune favors the monsters.
modified 3-May-23 16:08pm.
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I all seriousness, CodeProject AI Server connected to one of several home automation applications might solve your problem. @sean-ewington has written several such articles.
I have one that trained a model that detected Racoons, Skunks, Dogs, Cats, Squirrels, ...
With the right configuration, you could turn on a bright light, sound a siren, or make a Scarecrow move. The possibilities are limited by your imagination as I believe your fabrication and programming skills are up to the task.
My article:
How to Train a Custom YOLOv5 Model to Detect Objects
Sean's bucket load of articles
Sean's CodeProject.AI Articles
"Mistakes are prevented by Experience. Experience is gained by making mistakes."
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honey the codewitch wrote: I suspect raccoons
Racoons will kill chickens. Which would be obvious. But perhaps they are going for the feed instead. Although seems like that would be obvious as well.
honey the codewitch wrote: The solution we're going with is cameras. They don't wander far quickly.
You would rather chase them around once a week versus just insuring they don't get out in the first place?
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jschell wrote: Racoons will kill chickens
Right but the chickens are locked up in the coop at night when the raccoons are about. I think they're just breaking into the run itself.
jschell wrote: You would rather chase them around once a week versus just insuring they don't get out in the first place?
Ensuring they don't get out in the first place is easier said than done.
To err is human. Fortune favors the monsters.
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Did they saw see Chicken Run (2000) - IMDb[^] by chance?
M.D.V. 
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modified 4-May-23 17:32pm.
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Is there a scarecrow to keep chickens in and varmints out?
"A little time, a little trouble, your better day"
Badfinger
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Build a second fence around the coop, and then loose a dog in the outer run.
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Ugh, but then we'd need a dog. The cats would protest, and so would Himself. So would I for that matter. But otherwise, solid plan. 
To err is human. Fortune favors the monsters.
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honey the codewitch wrote: Wyze only works on Android or iOS
The beginning of the end. Simple example, maybe, but it shows that Windows is becoming less and less relevant as time goes by.
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dandy72 wrote: it shows that Windows is becoming less and less relevant as time goes by.
And it is mostly due to windows (owner company) itself
M.D.V.
If something has a solution... Why do we have to worry about?. If it has no solution... For what reason do we have to worry about?
Help me to understand what I'm saying, and I'll explain it better to you
Rating helpful answers is nice, but saying thanks can be even nicer.
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My 5G speed is off the scale, but I am now so magnetic I cannot get out of the car.
To err is human. Fortune favors the monsters.
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"A little time, a little trouble, your better day"
Badfinger
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Unfit home fit (13)
In a closed society where everybody's guilty, the only crime is getting caught. In a world of thieves, the only final sin is stupidity. - Hunter S Thompson - RIP
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Unfit
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"I have no idea what I did, but I'm taking full credit for it." - ThisOldTony
"Common sense is so rare these days, it should be classified as a super power" - Random T-shirt
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In a closed society where everybody's guilty, the only crime is getting caught. In a world of thieves, the only final sin is stupidity. - Hunter S Thompson - RIP
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Argh! My mind went to uninhabitable which is 13 letters and I couldn't shake that line of thought even though I couldn't get it to fit the clue. It was just too close, in my mind anyway.
Even so, nice clue.
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Maybe if you can delay posting the CCC to 1PM your time, people from the US can also participate  Just a thought...
Happiness will never come to those who fail to appreciate what they already have. -Anon
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And if we posted it at midnight, those in Oz could have a go as well.
You can't please everybody! 
"I have no idea what I did, but I'm taking full credit for it." - ThisOldTony
"Common sense is so rare these days, it should be classified as a super power" - Random T-shirt
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Well if all you foreigners use the correct time that problem would not exist. 
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The Correct Time right now is "Time for more coffee".
Isn't that universal time? ![Java | [Coffee]](https://codeproject.freetls.fastly.net/script/Forums/Images/coffee.gif)
Best wishes to everyone from Minnesota.
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long live Google search. /s
They have finally managed to make verbatim search unusable. F*** all the executives with their fingers in that decision.
(They probably did this months ago, but today was the first time I've had reason to try finding something specific. Now impossible.)
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Not sure what you were searching for, but I have had no problems. I typically use duckduckgo, my search engine of choice because they claim minimal tracking. But after your description of an issue, I searched for self rising flour (pretty specific). Google search worked just fine.
"A little time, a little trouble, your better day"
Badfinger
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I was trying to remember the ARM project Microsoft cancelled. 'Microsoft cancelled ARM' would have brought it up quickly with the old verbatim search. Not with the new algorithm. DuckDuckGo has never been as good as the old verbatim search was. I tried it multiple times and gave up on it. Now they all suck.
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understood.
sometimes its better than nothing.
Given Microsoft's reach, search results of its activities may be tainted.
"A little time, a little trouble, your better day"
Badfinger
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