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post #11 of 16

Fox in the daytime, coons in the night. I've lost chicks to both. If you're not locking them in at night, every night, you will need to use hardware cloth. Raccoons will reach through a chicken wire fence and rip their heads off. They will also climb a fence and get into your run and coop. Hence, I have a mesh fence over the run. I had a raccoon squeeze through a 3x5 inch opening.

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Pictures Dawg53?


It's buried under the grass, wanna pic of the grass lol?

 


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post #13 of 16

Well if you want to show off your coop or anything...

 

I' sure your grass is beautiful-

 

My yard is like:

 

"What's grass?"

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Well if you want to show off your coop or anything...

 

I' sure your grass is beautiful-

 

My yard is like:

 

"What's grass?"


Come on up and I'll show you!
 

 


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post #15 of 16

I hope our run is very secure.  It is built between a paved walk, paved driveway, and two buildings.  We dug a two foot deep trench around the perimeter and buried hardware cloth that far down even under the buildings.  We filled about a foot with stone and then dirt on top.  The top is covered with hardware cloth also.  Predators would have to dig under the driveway, walk, or building before they could even reach the hardware cloth.  We have every predator known to man.  Fox, Hawks, Eagles, Owls, Coons, Possums, Coyotes, Weasels, etc.  We live in the middle of a state park on Mink Road and the creek that runs through the back yard is Mink Run.  So needless to say we also have Minks.

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Come on up and I'll show you!
 

 



*looks at location* well it's not like it's going to be far... 

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