need ideas for run fencing material

[The Fairy Godmartyr]

Even though I live in an area with a lot of predators, I don't worry about them during the day since my coop is right by the house and I have 4 dogs. So mine is chicken wire. I just found hardware cloth for the run to be too prohibitively expensive. That said, my chickens go in as soon as it is dark and my coop is totally secure with hardware cloth on all windows and vents.

They've been out there since early summer, and I haven't had any problems yet.

 

[gsim]

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Just leave the dogs out at night, and you will never have a problem. But, dogs can and do rip through chicken wire.

 

[KC n KY]

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2 x 4 welded wire, set in cement. See "My BYC Page' Add a run of hardware cloth all around the perimeter 24" tall. Keeps out weasels and keep the chooks from poking their heads out to nibble grass. (Coons will decapitate one if they see it doing that.) Since it is such a small run, do cover the top with chicken wire. Electrify the run with minimum 4 courses of hot wire. If not electrified, then do the 2x4 welded wire all across the top too. Will keep out coons and even maybe cougars.

Gerry

Diddo