Chicken Rules in Question

[Pickensandchigs]

You can't just staple it down to a weak frame, but chicken wire is a good material for chicken coops. Always has been. You need good fasteners too, that goes for the beloved hardware cloth as well.

 

[igorsMistress]

Here's a thread for sharing your experiences with finding that "Internet Chicken Facts" weren't completely right.

For example..

Did your heat light burn out and no chicks died, heck they were thriving?

Did you feed only corn and nothing bad happened?

Did you build a coop of chicken wire and it raised 1000 birds with no awful predator attacks?

Maybe you get the idea of this thread.. If you do, share these experiences and lets keep the discussion alive.

Thanks.

I think the chicken wire coop with no predator attacks is possible depending on your environment. I could likely have done it here, at least for a few years. We do have raccoons in the valley, but none have been reported in my neighborhood to date; however knowing they’re here is why we used 1/2” HWC and padlocks on the doors.

 

[raingarden]

So pebbles and such will eventually dissolve inside a chicken? That's an interesting thing to consider.

Granite dissolves very slowly. The chicken would die of old age first. Something like marble, limestone or shell can be eroded somewhat more quickly.

Acid rain has a pH similar to a chicken gut and there are concerns about the effect of acid rain on our marble monuments.

 

[raingarden]

You can't just staple it down to a weak frame, but chicken wire is a good material for chicken coops. Always has been. You need good fasteners too, that goes for the beloved hardware cloth as well.

I notice you use white cable ties to make tractors. The pastic ties with get brittle from UV exposure and break after a few years. You should look into 3/8" stainless hog ring crimps.

 

[igorsMistress]

Wow, I feel like I just opened the door on a food fight in the kindergarten cafeteria.

 

[Isadora]

Wow, I feel like I just opened the door on a food fight in the kindergarten cafeteria.

Back away slowly...

 

[igorsMistress]

Back away slowly...

And close the door very quietly!

 

[SilverBirds]

I've only ever used chicken wire. Never once had a problem with predator's breaking through it (knock on wood).

 

[tripletfeb]

Wow, I feel like I just opened the door on a food fight in the kindergarten cafeteria.

You've been to my job?

 

[MysteryChicken]

I use chicken wire yes. Have I ever had predator attacks yes. Wire has never been broken through.

Had a Skunk tunnel into the coop from the ground. Killed my New Hampshire pullet.

An unidentified Raptor killed a Guinea.

5 pullets were killed by a weasel, & one rooster had some skin bitten of his face.