Cat tunnels for catio wanted

[alligg]

Hi

I have not been on the site much since loosing all my chooks to Mr Fox over a year ago.

We have been working on the garden getting it ready for when the time came that I felt ready to get some more.

We now have a lovely big area and we are just deciding on how to enclose it. We have fencing on 3 sides and a dense hedge with mesh fencing growing in the middle so it is just really the front that we need to sort,we thought about having aviary panels and a gate with mesh sunk underneath and paving slabs either side of the panels(if that makes sense)and then aviary mesh covering the top of the area to make it a little harder if the fox was to come over the top of the fence.our coop is on order from Solway recycling and would be big enough for 4-6 hens.

do you think this set up sounds ok? we were new chicken owners the first time round and although we have learnt a lot since then I want to get it right to avoid as much as possible the same thing happening.

any advice or pics on run set ups would be much appreciated.

Thanks

Alli

[sadietoo]

Hi there..glad to hear you are considering getting new girls again.

 

Please excuse me if I have misunderstood your post but are you intending to let your girls free range all day unsupervised? If you have a known fox problem, personally I wouldn't without electrifying my boundaries...The last fox we spotted in our garden made his escape by jumping up at least 8 feet on to the top of our garden shed.....and then over the back into the next garden.... Sadly fences are no barrier....