Assistance/Advice: Reinforcement for a 20x10ft area (lemmy.world)

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Basic: 20ft x 10ft chicken coop being attacked by loose blue pit bulls. (Weight 60,80 lbs malle and female). I'm trying to address the problem by finding the owners and what not but I first saw them 3 weeks ago. Tried to break in and I told them to stop, they listened and left. They came back today between 2-4pm and broke in and the one rooster that was there (missexed at birth) fought them off, died doing so. It is a very low gauge wire surround the pen, chickens aren't to strong. After the situation I reinforced the entrance where they broke in with higher(lower) gauge wire to about 2.5 ft it's what I had available. They came back at 11pm and broke in above it. I had to let one of the dogs out of the door so they could leave. I don't wish to shoot the dogs, and am dealing with it on other fronts... I was hoping maybe someone had cheap ideas I could use to reinforce the pen in case they come back before the issue is sorted. As a gun owner, I never want guns to be the answer

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[-] jubilationtcornpone@sh.itjust.works 5 points 6 days ago

My MIL has a pen that's slightly bigger than yours . I drove 8 ft. tee posts and erected a 6 ft. welded wire fence. Haven't had any serious problems with predators aside from snakes getting into the eggs.

Something like that would stop those dogs and they're big enough that you need a 'heavy duty' solution because now they've figured out where the fun is.

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