Enclosure ideas please?

[duckcreekfarm]

Can I get some assistance on ideas for a duck enclosure?
I got my ducklings before I built an enclosure... ignoring all advice about how stinky they are lol.
So now I am frantically building a duck pen. What I am currently setting up is a 6' by 20' chain-link run with an old goat shed on one end. The shed is homemade, about 4' by 8'. The run is covered with a long chain link panel.
My plan was to put 1"x 2" welded wire around the bottom of the run, about 2' high, with a skirt to keep out digging predators. But will this be enough to keep the bad guys out??

 

[cymbaline]

I covered mine top to bottom, with an underground apron, out of 1/2" hardware cloth, because predators absolutely can rip through poultry wire (I know you're not using that, but for anyone else who's reading), and because I'd seen stories on here about a raccoon or something reaching through a 1" or so opening and clawing at their ducks...one even said their duck's neck was snapped.
However... I don't lock my ducks up at night - they are free to roam their pen 24/7, which I feel good about. So if this is just a day pen you may be fine with what you're planning, I dunno...hopefully others will a similar setup will chime in. But I've had zero issues with predators with my pen for over 2.5 years now, which I think means I made pretty good design decisions.

 

[Amiga]

Just want to emphasize that the hardware cloth cymbaline uses is metal.

Years ago I discovered that some plastic poultry fence is labeled "hardware cloth." That caused the death of some ducks - not mine, but someone who had read that hardware cloth was a good fence for ducks.

 

[cymbaline]

Oh goodness, thank you Amiga! I didn't know that they were labeled the same. I'll be sure to specify in the future.

 

[BigWeenMachine]

Put railroad ties around the inside of your pen, right next to the fence. Helps to keep digging predators out cos they have to dig farther to get in. I also put awnings around the top of the pen. I bolted cut up pieces of t-posts to each fence post in my pen at a 45 degree angle pointing outwards from the fence. Then I ran about a 2 foot wide string of chicken wire around those t posts. It looks almost like a prison except its keeping things out instead of in. Never had anything get in, even the fence climbing tom cat that eats everything in sight....