Need to secure my chain link fence run tomorrow, what should i buy?

[ReillyJ]

it's covered with a fiberglass roof but i know i need to secure that chain link fence (first time owning chickens!) and husband thinks 2" chicken wire is fine and i said NO, coons can reach through from what i've read.

What's the least expensive material i should be buying to secure over my chain link fence run?

Is it necessary to buy hardware cloth if it's going over chain link fencing? Can i just buy 1" chicken wire, i really need to keep the cost down.

Thanks for any and all help!!

Also, should i keep the food in the run or in the chicken coop? (the chickens will free range during the day)

Susie

 

[bigmrg74]

expensiveness payed now will buy you piece of mind later on. Hardware cloth is about 99.9* percent raccoon proof. * somebody somewhere has got to have a story about how some big monster coon the size of a small bear tore thru hardware, but I haven't quite read that story yet. Just taking about some two foot width stuff along the bottom of that chain link will decrease your worries about a raccoon reaching in and getting your girls. I would also suggest a good roost bar that the girls physically can't sit close enough to the fence for a raccoon to reach in and snatch one.

 

[ReillyJ]

Thanks, you're right. I'll spring for the hardware cloth and put it at least 2 feet up.