yes... right now I have it so they can always get under cover with bushes and shrubs... even planted clusters of rhododendrons for them.... which I do think helps because I actually only lost two chickens to the hawks last year... both lemon cuckoo orpingtons... I figured they were just too big, brightly colored and slow for free ranging so I am not going to try that breed again. I have a mixed flock of marans, barneveldors and easter eggers now which all seem quicker on their toes... they high tail it for the bushes and squawk like crazy when the hawks show up. We hear the ruckus and can walk out to chase them off. I know I am kidding myself to think they are absolutely safe... but other then penning them in and not letting them forage its pretty hard to keep them perfectly safe... and that would defeat the purpose of why I got the birds. We shall see. We are going to have to move over the next year so after the move I can re-evaluate.