Great idea! Thanks!hello and welcome
perhaps you can start a thread with the title coyote rollers do they work? In the predators and pests forum. not everyone reads the introductions, but your title there could catch the right personās attention.
Ah, okay. Guess it's not a raccoon then! Hopefully you won't have predator issues again.We are pretty sure it was a coyote because we saw foot prints that looked like a canine print in the area of attack. We live in Las Vegas so we donāt have any raccoons here but maybe bobcat or mountain lion.We are kind of out by the mountains and there is some desert around us although it is all getting developed now. I have seen coyote in our area before and I have heard they can jump 6ft walls and have seen video of it but didnāt think our 8 ft wall they could get over. Our chickens were in our backyard free ranging, and when it happened we were not home at the time. We think they couldāve gotten over one of the areas our wall that is only 6ft high. Whatever it was only left pieces of a few of them and then just killed the other two but didnāt eat it. My husband is going to build and install coyote rollers on the āshorterā areas of our walls and gates and we are going to build a run to keep them in when we are not home and able to keep an eye on them when they free range. I will definitely have to look into the hardware cloth for our enclosure for sure!
We had shopped around for it when we recently bought some for a temp coop pen. We found the best deal we could for 1/2" hardware cloth x 3' x 100' on Amazon $109 and have about half of it left. We'll use some of it to strengthen concrete instead of rebar when we put in a patio next year.
A couple weeks ago I actually got 1/2" x 48" x 100' hardware cloth on Amazon warehouse for $100, best deal I could find. It was in "Acceptable" condition, but it's fine and not really damaged.
