NHCraigT
NES Member
I call ours Fort Knox Chicken coop. There is a trench filled with rocks and layered with hardware cloth under ground around the perimeter of the coop. No gaps and hardware cloth around the run and over the windows.
Below is what Cowgirlup was referring to. IMHO, I don't think its possible for a predator to dig through this set-up, with 4x4 posts in 10" x 4' deep concrete piers:
Stay away from "chicken wire mesh" = it works to keep chickens in, but is 100% useless for protecting chickens from predators.
We keep a 10/22 with a suppressor handy, whenever the chickens are out roaming the yard (we live in the sticks with no neighbors).
(We've since added-on an extension to the coop & run, to make it larger)
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