bottom of the run hardware cloth necessary?

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2 grand! wow lucky I just got my budget raised to $200 by my parents

Well, we have to look at it from our deck, our kitchen and our bedroom, so we wanted it to be eye appealing. Someday, it will probably be turned into a garden shed, or
playhouse for little kids when we don't live here anymore...... but for the here and now, it's ours. The price tag did include the materials for the run as well. Good luck,
and I am sure you will do just fine with your $200 budget. We tend to get carried away with our projects. We have 30 chickens (babies) right now and aren't sure
how many we will get down to. We know of at least 2 or 3 roosters at this point, time will tell.