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[FlyingNunFarm]

It's really hard to get a flat picture of grid fencing.

So it's bent at that first green post. So hard it popped the ties off. Then creased around the leg of the carport frame. The fence was hooked just past the red on the building.

All 4 hooks look like that.

You can see the boulder shaped indent in the fence. And the lake from all the snow melting.

 

[21hens-incharge]

WOW Nunny!

I can see where the ground stakes didn't hold too. That looks to me like dog damage.

Our old Malamute was destructive to chain link even. He would bow it and distort the fence badly.

Are those straightened out pieces on the building aluminum or steel?

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These stakes work much better than the wide top ones.

I actually used rebar and a welder to make hooks to hold a galvanized pipe to the ground on part of the kennel. Extreme measures for extreme dogs.

I am so glad your birds weren't in the run when all that went down.

Any prints in the snow or mud at all?

I would back up the metal holding the wire to the posts with bailing wire double folded.
That is some serious attempt to get in the run.

 

[21hens-incharge]

Just another thought........

Attaching to the building will be much more secure if you sandwich the wire between a 1x4 and the building.

Whatever gave your run the pred test is big enough to tater it up good.

 

[FlyingNunFarm]

So the hooks were meant to be temporary.

This is how the back is on. I didn't get all the fencing done before I could no longer use my hands in the cold. I have never seen a fence bent like that. I will definitely be keeping an eye out and working on it any chance I get.

 

[Chickassan]

Ok, Negan is not a chicken he's a reincarnated fat guy. I gave him banana bread at dinner he's never had it,instantly i'm the best thing walking. Couldn't sit down he'd be in my lap, at first I thought it was sweet then he put his head in my treat pocket! Just loving me for banana bread. I feel so USED.

 

[21hens-incharge]

So the hooks were meant to be temporary. View attachment 1615458
This is how the back is on. I didn't get all the fencing done before I could no longer use my hands in the cold. I have never seen a fence bent like that. I will definitely be keeping an eye out and working on it any chance I get.

ahhh I see. Nice use of J clips.

I wish I could send you my old fence charger from the bull pen. That would knock whatever is trying the fence into the next county!


Yup it kept the bulls in the pen.

 

[Chickassan]

I swear I heard a fart. I'm alone and it wasn't me. Ghosts are getting creative.

 

[FlyingNunFarm]

ahhh I see. Nice use of J clips.

I wish I could send you my old fence charger from the bull pen. That would knock whatever is trying the fence into the next county!


Yup it kept the bulls in the pen.

Those little clips are awesome. But also what stalled fence installation. It was so hard to wrangle them where I wanted and clip them with half numb fingers. LOL

 

[Chickassan]

Nevermind, wasn't a fart. It was a pine tree falling. So if a tree falls in the woods it DOES make a sound after all.

I swear I heard a fart. I'm alone and it wasn't me. Ghosts are getting creative.

 

[CapricornFarm]

Quite the start to my day.... something bowled through the chicken fence. It's bent pretty good and the hooks I was using are straight out the wrong direction. So what I hoped would be the first day they would come out in about a week is another day of lockdown in the coop. I knew I needed to finish the fence but I wasn't expecting it to be completely torn off the building. Reassures my instinct to do a door from the coop to the run not a gate on the run.
Lost another hen too. The 2nd Cuckoo Marans. Another Necropsy is in order. I'm guessing much the same as her sister. She was walking around, if a bit subdued, yesterday.

So sorry you lost another one!