The Prepper Broadcasting Network - The Prepper Tip of the Day: Mr. Ocax & Backyard Chickens

Episode Date: August 25, 2025

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which today we're going to talk about a solar powered owl that we call Mr. Oax. If you keep chickens, if you keep quail, if you keep anything along those lines, then you know that predation is a thing. Right? Predators are real. They are a problem. I have had massacres in my backyard. Absolute massacres. And they're always watching. One thing about predators you have to know, they're always watching. They are waiting for the night that you slip up. The night that you forget to lock up, the night that you forget to, you know, put that bungee cord on, lock that fence, whatever it is that you do every night. So many times it's been that one night for me where they've gotten. me one of the techniques one of the things that we employed years ago was a an owl essentially like a scarecrow type owl garden owl that sits in the chicken coop on a post and this owl in particular is solar powered and its eyes light up at dusk and they stay on throughout the night And we've never had an issue when Mr. O'Cax is up.

Now, Mr. O'Cax, sometime, this is what we call him. Some of you may know the reference, very few, but I don't know. You might know that. Who knows? We read a book when my son, my oldest, was in elementary school called Poppy, the school sent it home. And they said, read Poppy. Actually, I think it might have been during COVID. And it was an assigned book.

So we read it together at nighttime before bed. And Mr. O'Cax was the antagonist. He was the, well, essentially the owl who was eating all the field mice in the family. Poppy was about a field mouse. So we called it Mr. O'Cax, and Mr. O'Cack sits up on his perch and is powered by the sun and his lights come on at night. And it gives predators, at least in our area, just enough pause to say, I don't know if I want to go meet Mr. O'Cax. Now, we also move it, you know, we move it from time to time because you got to make things, you got to switch things up or the predators. We'll get used to it and they'll get a little closer and get a little closer and then they'll realize, oh, Mr. O'Kax is fake.

So that's my prepper tip for the day, folks. Get yourself one of these owls that you can stick in your yard somewhere, whatever you're protecting. They work in the garden too. But somewhere you need to protect things, I think Mr. O'Kax, don't search it up that way. It's just an owl with solar-powered eyes, LED lights for eyes. I'll link to it down in the description. I think that this is, well, this has been one of the most effective ways of deterring predators that we've used, okay? And we see a difference when he's up, you know, compared to when we're replacing him or when he breaks or something along those lines.

So give it a whirl, protect them yard birds, keep those eggs flowing and meat birds, keep them nice and plump. That is a huge part of self-reliance and independence. And don't forget to visit PBNFamily.com to become a member at the Prepper Broadcasting Network. Get a whole host of goodies on the other side of that membership. PBNFamily.com. Talk to you soon.