Security ideas?

Would you be able to post pictures? it would help us to see what you already have?

 

Install and electric barrier.

 

Let me tell you the electric wire really works. I had it around my barn to keep aggressive livestock out of the feed room. One day I was taking a calf to the auction barn and he wouldn't load. So I made me an off the wall electric poker by attaching a piece of the barbed wire I used run through a piece of hose for the handle. I just knew it would work. Time came, I stuck it to the calf, about 500 lbs, and he jumped but the wrong way. The bugger backed up, ran over me and got me all tangled up in the darn wire. I was bouncing all over the holding pen with the fine bard wire transfering the shock to more than 5 or 6 places. So yep, electric wire works, on us anyway. I don't remember how I ever got out of that wire, but I do remember I was cut up.

 

You can buy small fence chargers at farm supply stores for $25. You will also need some plastic insulators along with the wire..

The first picture on this page has a helpful view... the little yelow things are the plstic insulators the wire needs to run through to prevent getting shorted out.
https://www.backyardchickens.com/web/viewblog.php?id=42454-permanent-hoop-coop-guide


You can get creative - - just make sure you build a "strong perimeter", because bad critters will try to find the weak areas!!!

 

Quote:I can really picture that! I bet the calf laughed is ass off!

 

Quote:We might be kinda lame, but all our pens/coops could probably be accessed by predators if they actually got into our yard.

We have coyotes, foxes, raccoons, hawks, and black bears also in our neck of the woods (we are up in the Sierras). However, our yard is well-fenced, and we have a big, brown dog in the yard. We've only lived her a few months, and the foxes and raccoons circle our yard but don't come over the fence… they're scared of Ginger (the dog).

Good girl, Ginger. Here's a treat. (And she is a GOOD flock dog!)