Bird Netting for Chicken Coop - 50x50ft Poultry Netting Over Chicken Run & Chicken Pen, Heavy Duty 2.4” Mesh Garden Net for Blueberry Bushes, Fruit Trees and Vegetable Against Birds, Deer, Squirrels

This stuff seems good. It feels very thin but others have noted it works well. We have a hawk problem we hope to solve with this. Time will tell. As others have stated, it sticks to everything and grabs onto everything. My gloves were stuck and tangled in it several times. With a few people, we got it installed.This won't work for everyone but for our run (14ft x 20ft with a perimeter of 1x4s on face at the top) we first laid out the entire 25ft x 50ft net on the snowy ground and then folded it over on itself one time to create a 25ft x 25ft net, 2 layers thick. Then we rolled that onto a 2x4x16. With two of us on either side of the run (14ft side), we placed the board with the rolled up net on top of one end of the run and then rolled it out, being mindful to ensure both layers of netting were together and hanging over all sides as we went down the run. We rolled it a few feet, moved the ladders and continued to the end. Without doing this, it would have been an absolute nightmare with wire fencing, staples and boards catching it all the way. Once it was all laid out, rather than stapling it to the side boards all around the run, we cut 1x2s down to around 18" long and screwed those down every few feet all the way around the perimeter with the netting underneath. The netting catches seemingly everything so the thought is if a hawk or owl gets snarled in it, I can easily remove a few of those boards to let the netting down to ground level to remove the bird. For anyone with bird banding experience, this stuff is like a slightly thicker mist netting so my fear is the hawk or owl is not going to just bounce off, they'll probably get caught in it. Again, time will tell.

Netting was much finer/lightweight than I expected, though it seemed pretty resilient as I installed it over our chicken coop. The roof provided many places for the net to snag or tear on screws or edges of the metal roof, but it held together fine. How long will it last? Don’t know, but I’m optimistic based on the resilience i see. Also, I like how it was shipped: a fifty foot long “pony tail” of netting tied every five feet with ribbon. I laid it down the along the peak/roofline of the coop, untied the ribbons, and pulled half down one side, half down the other. No tangles, etc.

This thing looks like it doesn’t, but definitely works. Unfortunately caught birds I didn’t even want to catch, but I got it to protect my ducks and chickens, and the tons of hawks that fly over can’t get through it, so they gave up. It’s so hard to put up, but cheap and effective- I’d buy again and again.

I ordered this to go over my chicken run that's ~40ft x 20ft to help shield them from hawks and owls. I read a lot of the reviews ahead of time so knew to watch out for tangling and only unroll what I needed. I set it out the width of the run and immediately tied and cut off the section of net I knew I wouldn't need before I started to unroll it.There's no way to properly express (like the other reviews) just how much this net gets tangled on anything it touches. I planned an hour to cover the run and it took just over that because every twig, leaf, and blade of grass got tangled in this thing. The biggest headache was starting over a gutter system because this was tangled for all eternity on every part of the gutter. Every millimeter high lip caused it to snag. Hindsight, I should have laid a tarp down over everything this net needed to cover... but I'm sure somehow it would've gotten tangled in that.I'm super happy with the netting though. I've had a lot of cottonwood branches fall on it with no damage. It tangled in EVERYTHING during installation and none of the squares tore. I knew the installation would be rough and planned time for it accordingly, but it's been a dream since then so I'm not upset at all. I plan on using more of it to make additional chicken areas around my property.I added a couple temporary vertical posts to help keep the height up (still snags peoples' hats off) and after a few weeks it's still as taught and unbroken as day 1.

No directions. No telling which corner is length or width. Irregular measurements. Then after hours of a horrible, frustrating job of trial and error, we finally got it stretched and stapled up--to see that there were multiple ugly tears with threads hanging down that we did not put there. The stuff is very strong and almost impossible to tear, so the holes were there from the factory (some show signs of attempted repair from the factory). The tears are not going to allow a bird through, so the net will still function. But we're enclosing a beautiful garden with bench and arbor, and since human eyes are naturally drawn to any break in pattern, it just looks ugly. LATER: To add to my review...It ended up impossible to install because it was definitely NOT 25'x50'. After spending hours in the hot sun stapling the 50'' side on its very edge, the 25' side was only about 20' wide. It was not regctangular and the 50' side was more like 60'. It got returned razored off our new fence. This is the worst review I've ever left any product.

This netting is a challenge to work with, but easy to cut in pieces and use many times for the same project. Very effective in preventing other birds from preying on my chicks when I put them out in the yard in a small fenced area. Required a little training, so my chicks did not fly into it themselves. “They only did it once.”

STICKY!!! Not literally, but it will grab everything it comes into contact with! Definitely clear your work area of twigs, dead leaves, etc before laying this down or it grabs them and becomes very tangled, very quickly! Don’t untie any sections earlier than you have to while working with it. Also, the 50x50 ft piece we ordered was definitely NOT 50 x 50 but was much longer! Not even sure of finished dimensions because we didn’t unroll more than necessary to install it.This will likely trap any predators trying to get our chickens with as easily as things snag in it. If that happens, we’ll have to figure out how to manage releasing them from it.