Can a bear get through Hardware cloth?

[ahart99]

 

[quigley257]

All day long like it's not even there. They'll more likely just rip the door open though or peel back a corner of the wall. A word of warning on the outside roost... If your chickens are not inside the coop at night, raccoons will reach through the 2"x4" mesh on top and do terrible things to them. Nice looking coop!

 

[Blue CopperHen]

Ive raised and kept a couple black bears and I can tell you the only thing that will keep them in or out of anything is a 10 foot tall heavy gage chain link fence, posts concreted into the ground, with an inward slanted top, with a row of high voltage electric fence on top of the inward slanted top.

 

[Blue CopperHen]

We also used one strip of electric fencing strung just inside the chain link fence, about one foot off the ground, to discourage them from even trying.

 

[quigley257]

The cub in the pic looks like he might have just had his first electric fence encounter.

 

[chickortreat]

Can a bear get through hardware cloth? In four words....NOT AT MY HOUSE!!! We don't ahave bears around here, but if we did, I'd treat them the same as any predator threatening my livestock.

 

[drumstick diva]

A bear can go anywhere he pleases, they tear apart steel sheds, rip car doors off to get at a donut on the front seat, etc. etc.

 

[WalkingOnSunshine]

There are all kinds of scientists trying to come up with bear-proof food boxes for campers. They haven't done it yet. Bears can rip apart solid steel.

 

[chickengeorgeto]

In the above picture It looks to me like there are two bears looking at the menu.

 

[CowGrrrl]

bears can even break through solid steel. Hardware cloth is a piece of cake for them. And chickens TASTE like a piece of cake to bears..