Help - how to keep raccoons from climbing the coop and jumping in the run with electric poultry net?

[shinealot]

Hi, we've built a coop and are about to set up the run with 100 feet of poultry netting from Premier 1. The fence will connect to 2 corners of the coop so that we can access the coop/nesting boxes without going into the run. We just realized that a raccoon would be able to avoid the electric fence by climbing up the side of the coop and dropping into the run. Is there a way to avoid this scenario? We talked about running a hot wire around the coop itself. Any advice is appreciated.

 

[pibb]

Pics would help but unless you have a bare metal or galvanized coop there will be no ground up higher to shock the critter. Running the hot wire near the ground (where there is a ground) allows the raccoon to jump over it onto the coop and bypass the hot wire.

You could cut a piece of galvanized fencing, ground it, and attach it to the side of the coop and then you will have a ground up higher where you can run another hot wire.

 

[centrarchid]

I have entertained raccoons by setting up a wire about 4" above ground on approach raccoon uses to coop / barn. Initially I always made area was completely encircled. Now I just put a wire around about 90% of enclosure so I can walk in and out without having to turn off fence or step over it. To make work I had to know route raccoons typically used when visiting and made sure the single strand of hot wire was there. The raccoons quickly learn where their trail is blocked and usually go elsewhere. I also graduated to trapping the same approach so raccoons less inclined to probe for the 10% opening.