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I bought hardware cloth and cut it to fit the run - dumb question, but can I attach it to the run bars with zip ties or is there something better? Thanks!!

Holy cow - you have ALL sorts of chicken eaters!!! Maybe I need to hire armed guards to sit outside of this coop...insane how many animals out there try to eat chickens!!

I have the hardware cloth on my list to buy - the chicks are still in a playpen in my office so I have time to make updates to their coop before they live out there. I was planning on locking them inside each night and letting them out in the morning...the coop is a few steps away from our back...

That is very helpful, thank you!! I never - ever - realized that there were so many predators to defend against! Raccoons? I thought they were just garbage can pests! I mean, the old saying “fox in the henhouse” was the only thing I was thinking about...but there are climbers and diggers and...

We recently bought a house with an acre and a half and decided we wanted to own chickens. Our back yard is mostly wooded, and the front is grass - I figured I’d keep the hens in the coop and run during the day, and let them free range when I’m with them. During the night they’d be locked in the...