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that's a great idea!

It could have been a raccoon, we definitely have plenty of them around here. When I found our birds, two of them were torn up and mostly eaten, and the rest were killed with bite marks on the neck/head or gashes on the stomach, and a few of their heads were missing. They were all pullets, fully...

ours is skirted about 18 inches out from the bottom of the run and coop. Does that seem like far enough? we're getting more woven wire fencing to reinforce the bottom few feet of the wall, and we may use that to extend the skirt, too.

Thank you! these are VERY helpful! i'm thinking autolocking carabiners on our latches. About the coop window, I thought the idea was to have a dark coop, since they just stay in there for sleeping and laying. We definitely have some higher up windows for ventilation, but I wasn't aware of the...

this is great. i think we will definitely try this.

ooo, how does the hot wire set-up work? that sounds promising! We may have enough metal sheeting around here to roof the run. I wonder if we would still need hardware cloth under it to keep anything from slipping under the edges though, since the metal is corrugated.

Hey friends! New member here and brand new chicken keeper. My husband and I live at a camp in central Kentucky and our house and yard are surrounded by woods--lots of predator pressure. This summer we built our first coop for our first little flock, but lost all 10 of them last week, the first...