Advice needed on burying hardware cloth around perimeter or beneath run

[McChooky]

There is pressure treated wood that is intended for ground contact. I'm assuming they built it with this? It's super common.



I'm on 24 acres in super rural North Carolina and I've got *way less a predator load* that people in the suburbs. Animals out here have easy pickings and don't want to work too hard to get their food. They completely ignore my coop(s).

I get lots of visitors but none of them have tried to dig underneath mine yet but it only takes once.Wishing you the best of luck on your chicken coop!

 

[thistlewick]

I get lots of visitors but none of them have tried to dig underneath mine yet but it only takes once.Wishing you the best of luck on your chicken coop!

They'd have amazing luck if they managed to get under the 2 feet of hwc skirt I have around the hen house. Also the entire house is raised, so, they'd dig up... to a wood floor.

Just because I don't have predator pressure, doesn't mean I didn't build for it.

 

[McChooky]

They'd have amazing luck if they managed to get under the 2 feet of hwc skirt I have around the hen house. Also the entire house is raised, so, they'd dig up... to a wood floor.
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Just because I don't have predator pressure, doesn't mean I didn't build for it.

I can get by with using 1 x 1 inch hw cloth on my outdoor cat enclosures but all my coops have 1/2" hw cloth. Theres a huge difference in the two.