Building run/coop with hawks and eagles in mind

[CoyoteMagic]

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It's not purty, but it works!

http://www.plamondon.com/hoop-coop.html

 

[plapczynski]

Run a sturdy fence. At least welded wire, but maybe a goat or horse fence. I use a horse fence with 2x4 holes. You can run chicken wire along the bottom if you feel the need. I run 2x4 boards along the top and bottom of the fence to keep it from being pushed in or out.

The roof should be a netting that is hog ringed to the fence. I think it comes in 2" or 1" squares.

Run electric fence. Run a hot wire bout 6" up and another along the top. You can also run another about 12-18" up as well. The electric will stop the diggers and climbers.

HTH

Paul

 

[Eggseronious]

Hi Ginbart, How much smaller are U talking about? The one in the pic is about 20 feet wide.

 

[Cetawin]

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As we are only renting this property and looking for own to buy, I am going to do a smaller version of that coop. I have my plans for my coop and a smaller run. Valerie's just really impressed me.

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We have a mother and her one year old that come through our yard every night and every morning. They come over the ridge we live on and cross through our yard and over to the river...then they come back through early morning going to den.

 

[Maidservant]

All of these links and ideas sound wonderful! We don't have enough money for electric fencing, but our landowner may let us hook into one of her fences. She said that they don't have many ground dwelling predators, they know that if they wander out of the park, they are killed. There are many deer (which means a fenced and covered garden is in my future), but not much else on the ground. There are electric fences crisscrossing everywhere on her property plus 6 horses who hate dogs/coyotes/foxes and will kill them when they can. I'm thinking of building a hoop house (with wire out on the sides, just in case), or building a coop and covering the open section with poultry netting.

I built a small (relatively) tractor for the 5 week old chicks while we are at my parents house. It's big enough to house my 15 silkies, but now I've got to figure out how to attatch a door. The tractor itself is made of scrounged 1/2 inch hardware cloth and pvc in a triangle (open bottom). We have one end covered in hardware cloth, but I want one end as a door. Any ideas?

Thanks,
Emily

 

[ginbart]

Hi, It looked a lot bigger on the picture. 20 feet is not that big. I think I'm going to try it. I am soooo dumm. I could not post a reply and didn't know I was not logged in. How dumm am I?

Ginger

 

[FarmerMack]

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I love this run design!! I was originally going to let my brids free range but a neighbor told me about the chicken killing dog down the road. The owner put a gps on the dog so he knows where it's been but that does those of us with chickens no good

. Of course after I shoot the darn dog because of the stupid owner he can easily track the dead freakin dawg to where I buried it hehe JK maybe The dog will meet up with the sting of Daisy the pellet gun first before I take more drastic measures.

the bear last year didnt like daisy nor the crazy man yelling at him. He visited the neighborhood last spring but avoided my place, smart bear

how deep did you dig the edges of the fencing into the ground. It's mud season in New hampshire great time to be digging in the dirt , mud LOL

Farmer Mack

 

[Dawn419]

Hey Farmer Mack!

We're totally happy with this run, especially since we've not suffered any predator losses. We decided to go this route since our land lady (who farms behind us) always complains about her predator losses.

Skip SawzAll'ed two short sections from the bottom of the panels, which basically gave us 16" "stakes" to pound into the ground.

We were under drought conditions when we built this and the red clay resembled concrete. Whenever I knew we'd be erecting panels, I'd run a length of soaker hose along that area to make the job easier. Sometimes it worked smoothly, other times it didn't.

Here's a link to some of the problems we ran into...

http://bantams.shutterfly.com?a=1

Hope this helps!

Dawn

 

[FarmerMack]

Well I got the early stages of my predator prevetative run up. I have to think about the design close to the coop

as the windows crank out. Good ventalation and easy cleaning right now

http://s242.photobucket.com/albums/ff285/FarmerMack/?action=view&current=ee20d2ff.pbw

Farmer Mack