Anyone built a coop that is semi Bear proof?

[perchie.girl]

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Ooh they have those containers that are about eight by ten for onsite storage.... made of twelve gauge material. The bears may be able to dent it but wouldnt be able to break in.

Make your vents and windows up out of reach... Here you can get 40 foot storage containers for around 1000 plus a delivery fee. Do the pop door with an air lock. So they go in but have to turn to get into the coop. The air lock part could be made of twelve gauge welded in place.

 

[The Driver]

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X2 on the Conex!

 

[perchie.girl]

I was just surfing around and found a Bear thread on the Preditors and pests index....

https://www.backyardchickens.com/forum/viewtopic.php?id=479495

so sad....

 

[valley ranch]

Greetings, We have big bear problems here in the mountains, we've lost two goats to them last year. We installed a 9 strand electric fence, the charger is 9.3 joules [the manufactures say that is 15,000 Volts]. This has worked great, plus a dog that is in the fenced area at night.

We had to kill the bear that killed our does. The bear population has exploded here in the west. They, bear, are breaking into houses sometimes when the people are home. One lady called the sheriff,. she and her children were traped in the house while the bear looked for more to eat, the sheriff had to shoot the bear because it wouldn't leave.
Nuts were calling the sheriff's home with death threats for having saved the family.

The electric fence, with a good ground, has worked wonders but when a bear stakes out our place so that we are afraid to let the girls out of the house, it's SSS! Good luck.

Richard

 

[perchie.girl]

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Gosh how scary I am so glad I only have to contend with mountain lion and bob cat....

Around here the style is to build a solid fence traditionally it was made of Adobe but modern construction is stucco. The idea origionally was for rattle snake exclusion. Even those I have faced but not bear.....

 

[ChooksChick]

Ummm...we have raccoons and the occasional stray dog. Seems really tame!

 

[cowdogcadillac]

a conex would be cool but it would cook the chickens most of the year when it is hot. I like the idea of a fence charger that would put a hurt on a bear. Maybe a perimeter fence that is charged too will deter them. They eat my feeders when we hog and deer hunt,and have eaten my trail cameras . We really need to open up a season in Florida.

 

[Weiden Farm]

We have Bears on our property and i have found that unless you leave food around, they will generally look for the easy meal as opposed to breaking into coops. And as long as the coop and more importantly the run is well secured - you could be OK. If you make it easy for them - they will be happy to walk right into your home.

The little guy in the picture attached stumbled accross our deck while we were building our house and was being kind enough to try and cook dinner - unfortunalty we didn't take him up on that offer.

https://www.backyardchickens.com/forum/uploads/79289_gedc0017.jpg

 

[River Rats]

This is bear proof.

 

[perchie.girl]

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Maybe not.... I have a forty footer here in the desert and we get temps upwards to 110 degrees. It sits in full sun and is painted that kind of Rust red. There are very few vents and the ones that are there are covered with a flap of steel with an air gap. Full sun high noon and you go inside and its a full ten degrees cooler in there. If you were to do your vents right and put a shade roof over it I suspect it would be quite comfotable in there. I think what keeps it cooler is that square corrugated wall. The vertical edges shade the valleys so only 30 percent of the sides are not shaded.

you could do your vents with quarter inch diameter holes through the side up at a level above where the bear can reach. Also actually putting a shed roof on it will keep it cooler and warmer in winter. You definately could put some vents up there too.

again just some thoughts...