I'm working on prediator proofing my coop. Can anyone help?

[Cowgirl75446]

I would suggest using hardware cloth also.

 

[Scooter&Suzie]

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Please notice my note below the picture. That will let you rest more easily. I have another coop I can use, but the hens get along so well I hate to separate them. Until I can find a bigger coop, they will either just have to stay in the current one, which they are very happy, and get along just fine with no pecking or bullying, or they will need to be separated in the two different coops until I can find a bigger one. I could go one explaining, but since this has nothing to do with predators... We had better keep it out of the predators & pests section of the forum. Thanks for being concerned though.

Also, even the raccoon did pull apart the run, the door is shut.

 

[Scooter&Suzie]

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X2 on replacing all of the chicken wire with hardware cloth EVEN THE TOP. A coon would jump up on that run and reach down in easily.

So the Raccoons will be working on eating my chickens during the day? Even so, I would think my girls are smart enough to either crouch, or run back into the coop.

I know what you mean with hawk problems... Lost 3 bantams to hawks. I now only let them run around the yard when I am right with them... Even then I am careful, since they will still try to grab my chickens with me right there.

 

[comobirder]

Unless you are wiling to have a fixed coop/run, you would be better served with the hardware cloth others have mentioned.

The real problem is now oyu have a critter with a taste for chicken and is currently being provide with a steady supply of chicken. Until you get rid of it, permanently, it will return. You can try trapping and moving but unless you take the critter across county lines it will likely come back.

Good luck

Myself I chose fox hound, fixed coop/run with chicken wire 8 inches into soil, locks & wire over all holes/vents.

Plus a pellet gun, can't go wrong with a pellet gun..........

 

[Ole rooster]

When a chicken is scared and the culprit doing the scaring is at the coop, they will not run to the coop to get in. Unless your chickens are smarter the mine. They will huddle in a corner of that dwarf run you have and the one closest to the wire is the one to die. Cover the entire run with HC. On top of the chicken wire will work fine.

Do you let the chickens out during the day. I nearly suffocate looking at that run and chickens.

 

[OldGuy43]

I vote for the electric fence, 6 - 8" off the ground.