Well I will just have to make it 6 ft I guess on both sides. I do have hawks here, but I never thought of them getting a full grown chicken?! I always thought they caught smaller things like mice and lizards and maybe squirrels. We do have owls, but they just come out at night of course, well dusk. I do worry about my 4 lb poodle getting caught by an owl so I am cautious when letting him out at night. I know a lady whose cat was taken by an owl, so it does happen. Yeah, the idea of the trees is to offer some protection eventually, but for a while of course the trees will be too small to be of any use for that. I know I won't do free range because I will have vegetable gardens and my daylily beds. But I do want to make a sizable enough pen for them that are not cramped.
