Fab set up, we don’t have the netting!
Was thrilled this evening as we chicken TV watch and they both came out 
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one thing I would say Tory, I would have chicken wire up as a wiesel or stoat would easily be able to get through the welded grid fencing you have, just a thought.
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It is their day run I’m not to bothered in the day as the dog next door is usually out and we’ve never had a problem, touch wood!!!
Also they can get through normal chicken wire too. Apparently anything bigger than a wedding ring!
That could make for a rather expensive chicken run 
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My pen is 20 year old wire netting salvaged from a previous now long gone hen run, tiny birds can get through it so I have no doubt weasels etc can too but I’m hoping none are around. I used some new, some recycled posts - and bought the green netting for the top at gamm vert, raptors are definitely the biggest threat here (apart from people and the killer German shepherd bitch a couple of km away).
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I have watched one trying to get into ours for 2 hours and failing miserably and we have had our coup up for 5 years without any problems, ours get shut in the main pen at night but not into the coups, the time we lost 3 to a fox and cubs was in the main paddock.
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I shut the house up at night, it has an integral floor which reassures me.
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We lost ours to buzzards when they were free range in the orchard.
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Millie and Mabel both out and happily scratching around in the grass clippings making us compost bless them they’ve worked out how to be chickens!
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I have no idea why I came to be following this thread but I’m enjoying it immensely. Thanks to all who are contributing.
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It’s that time of the year again, wing feather clipping time 
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I don’t clip them, they are so sweet when they fly (to get eg mealworms).
As a followup to my earlier comment, I’m in the UK at the moment and went out for a curry. I just had to have the Tandoori Chicken Chaat. Thing is, they spell it Chat. It made me smile 
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They fly over the fence into the potager and proceed to wreck it by digging everything up, if I don’t clip their wings my wife would quickly turn them into Sunday roast if that happens again 
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There’s a restaurant in Brick Lane in London that offers Brinjal Bhaji which it describes as ‘succulent and spicy fried aborigines’.
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Nutguts 
don’t sound very appetising.
I saw sausage and (French) beans in Spain on the menu, salchichas con judías as you might expect but translated into German they had put Wurst mit Juden.
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Looks like they were thinking “nuggets” à le MacDo
