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[williamspencer98]

We have a sleeper bed in our garden which we want use as the 'Chicken Area'!

So if we built a run on top of the wooden sleepers, would it be foxproof? Would we need to concrete block below? I'm going to buy a house to put in it as well.

 

Above the house, would it be useful to put a perch in the run, so they can roost there and something to climb on?

Would branches of trees work as well to entertain them? <---- (That's what we did last time)

 

 

Will

[LottyJ1]

Hi Will,

 

I think they would be able to still dig under the sleepers? - you could put a mesh skirt round the sleepers or paving slabs?

[Melbourne12]

You need at least a weldmesh skirt. It can be buried so that it doesn't get in the way of lawn mowing and suchlike.

 

We've used sleepers, but buried weldmesh underneath the entire run. But we live in a suburban area where sentimentalists actually feed and encourage the foxes. So far, the fox poo has stayed strictly outside the run. When the hens free range, they're always supervised, and of course protected by an electric fence.