Chicken Run help

[LarryBirds]

I am trying to decide on building our run out of wood or just buying one of these metal runs im seeing on wayfair.com or amazon. I am trying to stay cost effective as the hardware cloth seems expensive to buy and be time consuming building from scratch. Any advice?

 

[Cyprus]

From someone who tried to avoid Hardware Cloth due to the cost let me tell you -get it. Yeah, it's an investment but a worthwhile one. It has deterred my most persistent predators and holds up really well.

 

[Steven Bussell]

I think the metal kennel run with hardwire over is the way to go..I think the time I saved covered the cost of the extra wire

 

[karrie1052]

A used dog kennel is easy and cheap and you can adjust the size and I lined the inside of mine with large rocks to

 

[LarryBirds]

From someone who tried to avoid Hardware Cloth due to the cost let me tell you -get it. Yeah, it's an investment but a worthwhile one. It has deterred my most persistent predators and holds up really well.

It looked like the hardware cloth came with the metal run. It just seems like such an undertaking building this wooden run from scratch. For 11 chickens I need a decent sized run... So Im basically considering dumping $400 into a large metal run.

 

[aart]

It looked like the hardware cloth came with the metal run.

Post a link to the specific product you want to buy.
Many of the metal framed runs do not have HC, look closely at the product descriptions.