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    Hawk-proofing a run that’s in the woods and need recommendations for your favorite netting!!

    When I posted this a year ago, someone mentioned the electrical tape. I didn’t end up using it so I’m not familiar with it. It’s been a year now, I have 17 chickens and have not had one hawk bobcat, raccoon incident sense. I have the fenced area around that is three strings of electric fence...
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    Hawk-proofing a run that’s in the woods and need recommendations for your favorite netting!!

    The battle goes on. My previous post of pictures for overhead fish lineKept the hawks from “diving “into my run. I didn’t take into account that hawks could sit on trees outside the run. Observe the birds, then fly down to the surrounding fence and just hop into the run.Back to the hardware...
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    Hawk-proofing a run that’s in the woods and need recommendations for your favorite netting!!

    The line doesn’t show up very well on the camera but it’s quite visible outside and I’ve never had a bird flying into it. It’s hard to see the line attached from the house across to the trees but that covers in the open area.
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    Hawk-proofing a run that’s in the woods and need recommendations for your favorite netting!!

    We have virtually the same set up that you do with all the trees in the run. We bought the strongest fishing line we could find ( 100-150 lb test)Then we used 2 ladders to tie the line from branch to branch repeating to make a patterned cover. Sometimes we tied it off at each branch and...
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