Predator Mesh and Coop Hardware Kit

Mongoose-grade mesh, rust-treated hinges and shade cloth fittings

This kit gathers the parts that give out first on a coop that works every day: hinges that have rusted through, latch plates that bend when a jackal leans on the door, and mesh with a weave loose enough for a mongoose to squeeze past. The galvanised mesh is cut for vents and the low gaps along the base rail, where caracal and jackal test the frame before they commit. Hinges are sized for timber doors that swing open morning and evening, and the shade cloth clips hold a run roof steady through a Highveld January.

It suits keepers in Gauteng and the Cape who lose birds to wildlife and heat rather than to illness. Fitting notes cover burying the mesh skirt into the ground and keeping shade cloth clear of the nest boxes so the air still moves.

What is in the kit

01Galvanised predator mesh with a tight weave, cut for vents and low gaps along the base rail.
02Rust-treated hinges sized for timber doors that open daily, plus heavy latch plates.
03Shade cloth clips for the run roof, so the cloth stays put in wind and does not sag onto the birds.
04Fitting notes on burying the mesh skirt and routing the shade cloth clear of the nest boxes.

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Galvanised predator mesh and rust-treated hinges fitted to a timber chicken coop

Condition

New stock, galvanised and rust-treated before it leaves the shop. Mesh arrives flat and rolls out clean, so it can be cut to the vent size on site.

Fitting notes

Bury the mesh skirt a hand's depth into the ground and pin it outward, so a digging animal meets steel before it meets the coop floor.

Where it fits

Smallstands and farm werf coops in Gauteng, the Free State and the Cape, where mongoose, caracal and summer sun do the damage.

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Predator Mesh and Coop Hardware Kit

Coop hardware and flock care

Nomsa runs the hardware bench at Gotchickens and keeps a mixed yard of layers and bantams on a smallstand outside Pretoria. She fits predator mesh, hangs gates and replaces hinges on coops that take real weather, and she writes the fitting notes that ship with this kit.

Why this kit exists

Most coop failures we see are not about disease. They are about a hinge that rusted through, a latch a mongoose learned to lift, or mesh with a weave wide enough to push a shoulder through. Nomsa has walked through yards in Gauteng and the Cape where birds were lost to caracal and jackal at night, and where shade cloth sagged onto nest boxes by February. The parts in this kit are the ones she keeps replacing on her own coops.

Field experience: Predator-proofing timber coops on smallstands and farm werfs, from mesh skirts to latch plates.
Fitting notes: Written from jobs she has done, including burying mesh and keeping shade cloth clear of nest boxes.
Ask about your coop: Send a photo of the gap or the door and she will tell you what to seal it with.
Reach her: info@gotchickens.com
+27314007870
470 Cronje Trafficway Apt. 069, Baloyishire, WC 8080