Escapest chicken

[ukrkoz]

Ok, is there any way to somehow track a chicken when she escapes the run? That being said, my run is FULLY fenced with chicken wire 2 inch mesh PLUS technically entire lower border of it is covered in fine mesh bird netting AND it's completely covered from the top with bird netting.
Yet, here we are. about 5 weeks old chicken is out there behind it just like that. I spent two days of my weekend finding any holes or byways or else. Everything is sealed tight. Boom, she's out there! Does not go far, mama is inside, but runs outside and cries out loud. Made it a point to do so, I guess. Used to be 4 of them, now it's one. I can only think of it squeezing through 2 inch mesh out, but, like I said - it's all fine mesh about foot up from the ground.
No idea.

 

[chiques chicks]

Ok, is there any way to somehow track a chicken when she escapes the run? That being said, my run is FULLY fenced with chicken wire 2 inch mesh PLUS technically entire lower border of it is covered in fine mesh bird netting AND it's completely covered from the top with bird netting.
Yet, here we are. about 5 weeks old chicken is out there behind it just like that. I spent two days of my weekend finding any holes or byways or else. Everything is sealed tight. Boom, she's out there! Does not go far, mama is inside, but runs outside and cries out loud. Made it a point to do so, I guess. Used to be 4 of them, now it's one. I can only think of it squeezing through 2 inch mesh out, but, like I said - it's all fine mesh about foot up from the ground.
No idea.

Odd's are good it's finding a way under the fence. Look for a dusting hole.

 

[ukrkoz]

Was first thing I looked for.

 

[PapaChaz]

5 week olds should be too big to squeeze through a 2" mesh, there has to be something loose somewhere for her to be getting through.

Put her back in, get a chair and a cold drink and sit in the shade and watch.....and let us know what you find out, LOL

 

[ukrkoz]

Sounds like a plan though I'm out to work before 7and back by 6.
Yes she don't fit through the chicken wire I actually tried. And it's in same corner every time, next to firepit where they grew before placed in the main run. There's ample green grass behind the fence in that corner and I see why she wants to get there.
But it's same one every time. Must be Houdini's soul.
Truly don't matter that much, problem is if she gets out - a baddie may get in same way.
Last resort I have bird netting leftover enough to cover that fence corner from ground up, but this starts being insane, you know.

 

[aart]

Do you have an apron around your run?
Buried a few inches and going out 12-18".
Corner mesh is out of scale in this graphic, but don't forget the corners!

 

[ukrkoz]

Cool idea. No, I am fully fenced property, never even crossed my mind. Also, DIGGING here is out of question. I am next to old gravel pit. No digging. I have an inner chicken wire fence "apron" though, from about foot tall fine plastic mesh.
Wife told me not to worry about it though. She said that escapests simply go back the way they got out. She also doesn't know where they escape. Fine by me.

 

[ukrkoz]

Got it, I think.
They were running out underneath the coop itself. Come to find, leveling blocks I used for the coop frame - it's 10x10 shad - were not solid single piece on the run side, so they escaped under the frame and between the blocks. Even though I "sealed" the bottom gap with plastic fine mesh, two pieces of it overlapped with gap enough for them to escape.
Zip tied gap together. So far no escapes.