Dog Kennel wire roofing and preditor proofing questions

[patandchickens]

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In most situations it's better to have the chickenwire INSIDE of the stronger-but-larger-holes fence. If it is on the outside, it is easier for raccoons or dogs to rip holes in the chickenwire at which point only the stronger fencing is keeping them out.

HOWEVER it does not really matter very much in reality, if your run is well built... the reason for putting chickenwire over stronger-but-larger-holes fence is basically just to keep chickens from pokin' their heads out or raccoons from seeing a sleeping chicken located within grabbing range. As long as you eyeball the run fence daily when you're out at the coop, and the chickens are shut indoors at night, not much mischief will happen *even if* something rips a bit of a hole in the reinforcing chickenwire.

Pat

 

[genabeana]

Hi! I also have a dog run cage. Mine is 8 feet high and a fox scaled a tree next to it and jumped in. He/she killed all the chickens. A new batch of chickens has survived the fox with a 2" coated chicken wire roof. I used plasti-ties from the hardware store to attatch it to the cage, and to wire close subsequent parallel pieces of the chicken wire.

It's worked GREAT - there's no way a raccoon could break the plasti-ties, and there are no holes big enough for a fox to slip in.

 

[Alley]

Foxes climb? See I learn something new on here every day!

I already put the hardware cloth on the outside of the kennel. I guess I could take it off and put it inside. I'm more worried about the digging and the top.

 

[2txmedics]

Patty: thats how mine is...chicken wire ontop but I dont have predators other than squirrels which is amazingn since I live on 4 acres....but ALLISON...do you see your gate door? well I have the 10x10 dog kennel run...and that darn squirrel squeezed in between the poles to the gate and the door frame!!!!

like I said in my earlier post in here, it scared me as all I saw was fur running at top speed in the run, and Im in it!!!

so how did we fix it,...havent really, cant figure out how, on our buffs pen, we did put boards nailed together and then braced up against the poles of the kennel at the door area so they were ok. since they are 1mo old...

sorry but Im not a carpenter...lol

 

[patandchickens]

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Raccoons and other things can get in there too. Dog kennels are fine as runs but it is HIGHLY worthwhile blocking up those corner gaps (also some have largeish gaps around the doorframe) with lumber, as 2txmedics says. Better to do it *before* the predators notice than after.

Pat

 

[CelticOaksFarm]

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Raccoon can bite through a wite tie, sorry to tell ya lol mine did when I had them.


Yes Fox climb, not well and not straight up but they can climb if low enough branches are around.

 

[allison finch]

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Yup, my squirrels squeezed through there too, the buggers. I put a folded piece of chicken wire that fills the gap. Makes closing the gate a bit harder, but it is harder to open, too, by those nimble fingered critters.

Also, my pen does NOT have the rounded corners of the other pens. There are no gaps there as they fit together better. Check the photo of my pen in the earlier post. I have plugged all holes bigger than the hole in the chicken wire, now.