Thank you for the help Missi & Terri.
I'm pretty sure we'll have to put something over the top of our new pen too. There are also plenty of hawks in the area though we haven't seen any around the new place yet.
I haven't had the opportunity to read through all 94 pages of this thread yet, but wanted to say "Hey!"
We live near Lake Charles in the southwest corner of the state. We had chickens years ago but got discouraged when we kept loosing them to the coyotes no matter what we did. We're fixing to...