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[Dingleberry]

 

[3KillerBs]

Looks good, I'm sure mine wish they had all that shade.

But you're going to want to put hardware cloth around at least the bottom several feet to keep rats, weasels, and snakes out and to keep raccoons from reaching through.

 

[Dingleberry]

Looks good, I'm sure mine wish they had all that shade.

But you're going to want to put hardware cloth around at least the bottom several feet to keep rats, weasels, and snakes out and to keep raccoons from reaching through.

We don't have snakes that bother the chickens here in WA. I will line the bottom under the fence with rocks as our land has plentiful.

 

[Aunt Angus]

Pretty area!

I second the hardware cloth. I live in CA, so admittedly a different state, but my run (also a dog kennel) has been visited by rats, raccoons, cats, foxes... Everything wants to eat your flock. Everything.

 

[Dingleberry]

We have Bears, Cayotes, Cougars, Trash pandas (racoons) Weasels, rats and mice,, Snakes I have seen 1 alive here in 13 years and it was a Gardner snake. The rocks have done good in the past but I can easily line the bottom part with hardwire cloth. Thanks for the input

 

[Aunt Angus]

We have Bears, Cayotes, Cougars, Trash pandas (racoons) Weasels, rats and mice,, Snakes I have seen 1 alive here in 13 years and it was a Gardner snake. The rocks have done good in the past but I can easily line the bottom part with hardwire cloth. Thanks for the input

I love trash pandas (the term)! And snakes are nope ropes. Haha!

 

[rosemarythyme]

We have Bears, Cayotes, Cougars, Trash pandas (racoons) Weasels, rats and mice,, Snakes I have seen 1 alive here in 13 years and it was a Gardner snake. The rocks have done good in the past but I can easily line the bottom part with hardwire cloth. Thanks for the input

Another vote for hardware cloth. My run is chain link so without the extra protection raccoons can easily reach through that and nab a chicken. I know it works because the raccoons left tufts of their fut where they tried to pull hardware cloth off the run wall (and failed).

Other predators are bobcats and of course, stray dogs. At least you have the run covered against birds of prey.