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Thank you both for your replies. This is very helpful and it makes me rethink my plan for using poultry netting.

I'm trying to set up a winter- time run for my chickens. They are typically in an a-frame chicken tractor but for winter, we need to park it and set up a fence around it. Originally, I was thinking of going with Premier 1 poultry netting but my brother told me that in the winter, any snow will...

I meant to attach a picture of the tractor.... We have plans to put polycarbonate where all the fencing is, except for some for ventilation - will remove the tarp. This will shield them from the elements and allow sunlight in so should help with heating it too. The run is 80 sq feet but I...

Thanks for posting back - this will help me if I decide to go that route.

Thanks! We are in mid-Missouri. We get colder than NC where you are but not a whole lot of snow most years. Last year, definitely more than usual. What electric fencing do you have? I was also thinking of these benefits as well. My husband, understandably, is looking at the $$. Like many...

We use an A-Frame Chicken Tractor (coop up top) for our hens but in the winter, we need to park it and add additional space for them to have a run (I think). So now is the time for us to decide how to go about this. My husband wants to repurpose fencing materials we have already and use...

After just losing 8 of my 19 last night to one predator, I will not free range mine again. We were only doing it for a couple of hours each night (they are in an A-Frame Chicken Tractor all day that's awesome), thinking it would be ok. Something took their heads off and only 1 was fully...

Thank you both. I'm grateful that I still have my 11 girls left. I'm going to look into getting a trap. We'll also be locking our hens up as soon as they are in at night and they won't be free ranging unless we are out there, so not very often.

Feeling really sad and stupid right now. We live on a 2 acre fenced in property. Our 19 girls have been in a chicken tractor most of the day, to be let out in the evening for free ranging 1-2 hours. We lock up after dark. Kids went out this morning and found 8 dead chickens, each in...