Barbed wire for run roof?

[Corsair]

For any of you that have experience with birds of prey, would barbed wire be an acceptable roof cover? My run is 50 feet by 20 feet and I want to run a few strands of wire maybe 8 inches apart across the top. Would it keep out hawks?

 

[ReadingRAEnBo]

I'd think that it would discourage them. But I'd like to say that if your babies are anything like mine, they like to get a little crazy and fly about.

 

[SueT]

I use bird netting. It will stretch a 20' span, and keep hawks out, chickens in.

 

[David61]

https://pinnonhatch.com/Poultry-Supplies/Poultry-Protection-Netting-and-Fencing/
Heavy duty, snow load, 7-10 ten year polypropylene. Its the bomb.
https://pinnonhatch.com/Poultry-Supplies/Poultry-Protection-Netting-2inch-Heavy-Knotted.html

 

[Corsair]

Thanks, I’ll take a look around for netting

 

[aart]

Thanks, I’ll take a look around for netting

Might use regular wire to set up a grid to hold the netting.
Do you have snow load to deal with?

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[David61]

They sell heavy monofilament line to hang the net as well as the hardware.

 

[Corsair]

Might use regular wire to set up a grid to hold the netting.
Do you have snow load to deal with?

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Snow load, yes. Northern Alberta Canada here.

 

[SueT]

Well, bird netting might not work in Alberta winters. Here in the South, our netting has held up to ice and snow, it stretches and sags, but then it bounces back. Here it is coated w ice over a 25' span and a close-up. Snow, I have to shake it to get it to fall thru. I don't let it pile up, but again, our latitude is 37ºnorth. Snow and ice don't last for long here, just days at worst.