I'm working on the tunnel (its only 3 feet high on the low side and about 30 inches wide with a slant roof) that will bring the girls from the back of the coop where their chicken door is to the run in the front that is under reconstruction and I decided to use some galvanized roof panel, this kind of metal roofing to help keep the rain out and shed some snow away from the coop. One side will be against the coop shed. I was just getting ready to install it on the framing I constructed and I can't help but wonder if the wave, it's 1/2 inch, could allow predators in. I was looking under there and it seems like the rib gap could allow something to crawl in. I'm locking everything down from a recent weasel attack, so it seems silly to go to all the trouble of dismantling what I had, redesign, and install hardware cloth on everything and then leave all these holes under the roofline.
I've seen these panels on several other runs, how do you deal with the openings the ribs cause, is it large enough to make a difference? What do you plug them up with? I saw some foam closures at lowes next to the panels that belonged to a different kind of roof but nothing for this kind I bought. Besides, I would think something would make short work of foam to get in.
I'm thinking about just running hardware cloth on the top and throw a tarp over it like someone suggested in another of my posts asking if snow would make the hardware cloth sag on the larger lean to run I am looking at building. I thought the metal roof would look snazzy on the tunnel since the coop is right next to the drive and would give me some experience installing it at ground level before thinking about using it on the larger run, it would provide shade and keep the snow and rain away from the coop and keep the mud down, but I am worried about weasel infiltration so much.
I've seen these panels on several other runs, how do you deal with the openings the ribs cause, is it large enough to make a difference? What do you plug them up with? I saw some foam closures at lowes next to the panels that belonged to a different kind of roof but nothing for this kind I bought. Besides, I would think something would make short work of foam to get in.
I'm thinking about just running hardware cloth on the top and throw a tarp over it like someone suggested in another of my posts asking if snow would make the hardware cloth sag on the larger lean to run I am looking at building. I thought the metal roof would look snazzy on the tunnel since the coop is right next to the drive and would give me some experience installing it at ground level before thinking about using it on the larger run, it would provide shade and keep the snow and rain away from the coop and keep the mud down, but I am worried about weasel infiltration so much.
