DH Will Not Bury HW Cloth - PICS

[LynneP]

Mine started to fly out of the brooder at two weeks! I'm sure you'll get this solved. Think like a weasel, too, any opening that would let a hot dog through...we have hoards of raccoons, foxes, bears, mink, fishers, bobcats, coyotes and our own feral cats.

Yikes, I HEAR you!

 

[m_herrington]

I have heard of someone using metal stakes and hammering them into the ground every couple inches around the run... It should be easier than digging, but it might damage more tree roots.

I am sure that would get expensive though, unless you know of a construction sight or someone that works in construction that could get extra pieces of rebar and use those...

 

[cluckychick]

In the areas where we didn't bury wire we put concrete blocks on both sides of the fence around the base with the wire bent outwards.

Your DH did an awesome job on your new coop

It's gorgeous!!

 

[derby]

Your siding looks like the same thing we are using on our henhouse. it is OSB on one side and that pressed siding on the other. Do you know what it is called? Does it have to be painted?

Thanks,
Derby

 

[mmajw]

That is a great coop. Can something get under the coop and into the run. It looks open from the pics???

 

[bionic_chicken]

Yes, it is an OSB siding.

And, yes, a predator can indeed get under the coop and into the run. We are sealing all the way around the base of the coop with hardware cloth, bent out a foot, and covered with dirt, large rocks, bricks and landmines.

 

[asher]

I used garden pins to hold my hardware cloth down all around the runs. Worked great for us and grass grows up through it after a while so you can't even tell it's there.

 

[RhodeIslandRed]

I dug down about 6 inches and poured 20 lbs. of nails in the trench before I filled it. You can also used broken glass.

 

[Stumpy]

That is a great-looking coop! Oh, just be sure that big dog from the pound isn't a predator himself.

 

[Hangin Wit My Peeps]

A raccoon opened a cooler we had closed like that very easily! I would reinforce that for sure

Good luck!