Response to Chicken Pen that Works?

Ah chickens....boy do I miss 'em! Have been trying to talk hubby into letting me get some more for three years now - hadn't had time to care for them properly though, so didn't push too hard. I have had several chicken pens: 8 foot tall chicken wire with no footing, 6 foot tall woven wire with the bottom tucken under railroad ties, and 4 foot snow fence fastened to metal T posts with electical tie-wraps. They all worked okay. We have coyotes, skunks, coons, possums, hawks and all the other assorted midwestern fauna. Only critters I ever had trouble with with the chickens was one Labrador Retriever (he always looked guilty) and the darn possums (live trapped and hauled 'em off). Coyotes did get in and kill a bunch of my rabbits one time, but the chickens were shut up at night so they couldn't get in to them.

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