Yes string, fishing line, or the like is available to me. I can do that. Do you tie it to posts or staple?
We used to have a covered run, but our property has a lot of trees and the trees kept tearing up the netting. I tore it down and moved the chicken yard enlarging it in the process. I saved the netting to be used more for keeping flying chickens in than predators out. It's deer netting and I'm not pleased with it. It tears easily. I don't think it would keep a hawk out. The only good it might do with a hawk is get it tangled up.
I've become very inventive in the last couple years. According to my husband I've done thousands of dollars in improvements on our acre lot during that time and spent less than $50 in supplies. I'm sure I could invent something. My wheels are spinning.
Thank you all for the ideas.
Marla
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Subject: [CHICKENS-101] Re: Coopers hawk
Folks have reported Old CD/DVD's also work well for "shiny dangles". Suspend them with monofilament fishing line.
I note you cannot afford netting across the top of your pen - you probably can afford a ball of string and weave across the pen at 6 inch intervals.
Another ploy that has worked is to construct a device to make a lot of racket.
One of my clients hung an old style round tin wash basin from a beam and a heavy fishing sinker pendulum style from the edge of the basin. The sinker was attached to a long string that went through a hole in the middle of the bottom of the basin. When the owl in this case arrived on top of the coop Roy jerked the string rapidly back and forth - made a hellva racket and scared off the owl. Took it almost 2 weeks to return and one more treatment made absence permanent.
Good Luck
Prof
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