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Ordinary chicken wire is great for keeping birds out including hawks and owls. You can order it in 6 ft tall rolls of 100 ft at your co-op or tractor supply store. Buy some small gauge soft tie wire to lace it together, and come up with a pressure treated pine support structure to run down the middle of the run to keep the chicken wire from sagging down. Some netting comes in 25 ft widths, but it is not as durable as chicken wire.
Gerry
Another option to the soft tie wire is zip ties. We just overlapped the chicken wire by about a foot and put a couple of rows of zip ties every few inches. It is tight and high enough up that nothing is coming through. And it was super easy. Once they are secure, you just clip off the extra and you don't even notice they are there.
Ordinary chicken wire is great for keeping birds out including hawks and owls. You can order it in 6 ft tall rolls of 100 ft at your co-op or tractor supply store. Buy some small gauge soft tie wire to lace it together, and come up with a pressure treated pine support structure to run down the middle of the run to keep the chicken wire from sagging down. Some netting comes in 25 ft widths, but it is not as durable as chicken wire.
Gerry
Another option to the soft tie wire is zip ties. We just overlapped the chicken wire by about a foot and put a couple of rows of zip ties every few inches. It is tight and high enough up that nothing is coming through. And it was super easy. Once they are secure, you just clip off the extra and you don't even notice they are there.
