The coop I built a few months ago has a covered built in run, by its only 8x4 which isn't really big enough for my 5 hens, who I have to keep them in there most the day due to many predators in my area. So I want to build an 8x4 addition on to it that's not going to be covered. I pretty much have the framing well planned out, 2x4s are relatively inexpensive, but I'm concerned about what to use as a substitution to hardware cloth which I used for my built in run. It would cost around $100 for hardware cloth alone in this addition. I wàs thinking about chicken wire but I heard that's almost useless if a predator comes along. This is only a day time thing by the way too, the chickens get locked up in the coop at night. So any ideas or suggestions?
