I have an approximately 50 x 8' run with hardware cloth around entire thing. What I did at the ground, many here will consider inadequate, but it's done now and my fingers are crossed.
I trenched the entire perimeter including elevated coop (about 130 inches of trenching) down about 10-12 inches... sometimes less, sometimes more depending on what the grade of slope was like. Set cloth in there for each section. Stapled it in to outside of 4x4 posts and 2x4 cross members, and then into the trench went a 2x8 with about 2" exposed above the soil, and then packed soil back in. All of the hardware cloth seams occur at wood members of the run, and I'll be sandwiching them with 1x trim.
The run and coop are inside a privacy fenced piece of property. Coons and possums are the only mammal critters I need to worry about. I don't see either one digging 10-12" straight down, then under the hardware cloth and then 10-12" back up to get in. H Hope I'm right.
I trenched the entire perimeter including elevated coop (about 130 inches of trenching) down about 10-12 inches... sometimes less, sometimes more depending on what the grade of slope was like. Set cloth in there for each section. Stapled it in to outside of 4x4 posts and 2x4 cross members, and then into the trench went a 2x8 with about 2" exposed above the soil, and then packed soil back in. All of the hardware cloth seams occur at wood members of the run, and I'll be sandwiching them with 1x trim.
The run and coop are inside a privacy fenced piece of property. Coons and possums are the only mammal critters I need to worry about. I don't see either one digging 10-12" straight down, then under the hardware cloth and then 10-12" back up to get in. H Hope I'm right.
