Hawk attack?

[Criticalicious]

Rather than chicken wire over chain link, you should use 1/4" hardware cloth for the first 4" from the ground and higher than that you can use something else like 1/2" hardware cloth or the chicken wire. Raccoons can tear chicken wire like tissue paper.

 

[Folly's place]

Forget the chicken wire and use hardware cloth, 1/2" will do, everywhere.
Mary

 

[termeerchick]

Forget the chicken wire and use hardware cloth, 1/2" will do, everywhere.
Mary

Oh my gosh thank you soooo much!!! I’ll absolutely use the 1/2” hardware cloth. Do I get it from the hardware store? Also what would you use to secure it to the chain link fence? @Criticalicious and @Folly's place
I had no idea that the raccoons could get through chicken wire!!! My poor girls have been through the ringer and are so stressed. I feel so bad for them.

 

[Folly's place]

I haven't done it over chainlink, but there's a thread here, I think in the coops section, about it. Make it secure, raccoons and dogs are amazing.
Mary

 

[termeerchick]

I haven't done it over chainlink, but there's a thread here, I think in the coops section, about it. Make it secure, raccoons and dogs are amazing.
Mary

I’ll look for it. Thank you soooo much again!

 

[cmom]

I have chicken wire with welded wire and so far nothing has gotten through it. My pens are quite large so the birds aren't close enough to the fence for a coon to reach through and grab them. I couldn't afford to use hardware cloth with the size of my pens. I do have electric wire going around all of the coops and pens and netting over the tops. I think the hawk got in through a breach in the netting. My pens are 60 feet deep. The netting I bought was 200 feet x 50 feet so I was short 10 feet so I bought a couple of packages of deer netting which was 150 feet x 14 feet. A place where I overlapped the netting came loose so I think the hawk got in through the gap. I fixed it now.

 

[GC-Raptor]

I’ll absolutely use the 1/2” hardware cloth. Do I get it from the hardware store?

1/2 inch hardware cloth is much stronger than 1/4 inch.
I got mine at TSC, Tractor Supply Co. GC

 

[termeerchick]

1/2 inch hardware cloth is much stronger than 1/4 inch.
I got mine at TSC, Tractor Supply Co. GC

Thank you! Yes that’s what I am planning on using, 1/2 inch hardware cloth. Do you know what would work best to secure it to the chain link fence?

 

[cmom]

I use hog rings.

 

[termeerchick]

I use hog rings.

Ok thank you!! I’ll get some of those too.