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I just wanted to make sure you realized the risk. We belong to a local poultry group, and we've met so many folks there who are really, genuinely surprised and upset when their birds are picked off by predators. I guess many people living in the suburbs have forgotten that it really is a jungle...

If I understand you correctly, you're planning to put a nest for your hen out in the open, with no solid walls, wire or security of any kind from predators? Um, yikes. Hens will often stay on their nests to protect their eggs or chicks rather than flee from predators. A friend of ours lost...