Sorry, my 'puter skills suck. Study the image.

Sand bags, concentration tower, surface to air defenses, raydar, machine gun turrents, great white sharks in the chicken coop moat.

The image really needs to be enlarged.

That is about right. I have a friend that lives in the foothills. He has an enclosed area for his chickens behind chicken wire. He still has to put his chickens inside the coop every night and lock them in. Every time he forgets to do it, a mountain lion or bobcat tears a hole in the chicken wire and makes off with one or two of his chickens. The chickens are too dumb to run into the coop when a predator comes for them.

quote Originally posted by Doug85GT: That is about right. I have a friend that lives in the foothills. He has an enclosed area for his chickens behind chicken wire. He still has to put his chickens inside the coop every night and lock them in. Every time he forgets to do it, a mountain lion or bobcat tears a hole in the chicken wire and makes off with one or two of his chickens. The chickens are too dumb to run into the coop when a predator comes for them.

Based on my limited experience, predators will enter the coop to get that dinner. There are wire fences that are pretty secure as far as keeping predators out but, chicken wire is pretty much for keeping the chickens in.
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Rams

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