I alternate between our house in Houston and our farm in Hallettsville. I fight a continuing battle with the coons, possums and bobcat to keep my chickens. I won the battle with the hawks by putting strips of plastic construction netting across the top of my large pen. At present I have 12 RIR's (some mixed production reds, I think). My grandparents lived in Northeast Texas and my henhouse looks almost like my grandmothers except it is tin instead of roughcut lumber.