Thoughts on Safety

[llombardo]

I got little boobie traps everywhere. Some areas are overlapped with the cloth, some area move slightly so climbing can be difficult. Some of the stuff happened on accident but I left it because it actually made sense....lol

 

[PirateGirl]

A coyote or a dog would have leverage there to break the gate. That is all.

 

[llombardo]

A coyote or a dog would have leverage there to break the gate. That is all.

Got it. I'm going to test it. That hate is aluminum and not easy to drill.

 

[PirateGirl]

You could just bungee the corner.

 

[llombardo]

You could just bungee the corner.

I got plenty of bungees

 

[Soon2BChixMom]

I had that coop. If the outside is secure, they should be fine. Any predator that could get in through the extras that you set up, can get in through the pop door unless you lock it too. The wood on the coop is pretty flimsy. I was always worried that a raccoon could pull the nest door off. So, installed extra latches and carabiners with hook and eye screws.
On that model on the inside above the pop door is an open triangle for ventilation - I never put hw cloth there, but figured if somehow a weasel got in, my chickens would be goners for sure. But, I trusted that I had put enough extra layers of hw cloth as well as adding latches that they should be fine.
We eventually built our own coop.