Recent content by BECCS2014

12/12 and 28 degrees outside, has been varying between 11/12 and 12/12 every day. GOOD CHICKENS!!!!!!

12/12 every day for the last week :-) extra treats for the ladies. Still expecting the luck bubble to burst

Low impedance high voltage low amperage, AND make sure your fencer is a pulse charger and not continuous. If it is continuous anything that touches the netting will fry and in turn burn right through your poly rope wire. Rendering the fence useless. Wet and damp feathers and farm pond frogs have...

Today we found a dead chipmunk in our fence, wanted it to deter not kill

I also have touched the fence which is .7 joules and putting out 5000 volts, so I'm sure having that fence around her neck was not pleasant for my chicken

Chiming in on the poultry netting, I'm a newbie to chicken farming, but after having my poultry netting up for 2 weeks, I can say without a doubt it works against ground predators my 110 pound yellow lab pup got educated in 2 encounters with the fence. My 70 pound redbone hound/lab pup did the...

12 RIRs. The coop is approximately 7ft by 7 1/2 feet inside. I totally agree on the ventilation needing to be increased. Nights here have still been in the 40s, but improving. We added some big vents on the front if the coop and some welded hardware cloth vents to the side this morning, the...

The ridge vent on mine is in the front facing side, it's a saltbox, my coop is still a work in progress.

My 8 week old RIR chicks are out in the coop. It's a damp windy blustery day here in Maine. Wondering wether I should open the ridge vents and leave the doors shut for the day. Or open the doors and let them do their thing. Concern is the wind blowing the rain in through the doors and making a...

This first flock of chicks has been great fun. I guess first and foremost chicks grow fast!!! We started the brooding process with a small Rubbermaid tote switched to a couple larger size totes and finished with a 6 foot x 3 foot brooder box that we built. Prepare ahead of time, build something...

I'm beginning to think they did just that, coop is wide open and no one has stepped a foot out the door today. Would love to free range them without the fence but with that huge forest out there I may as well just go buy rotisserie chickens at the supermarket for the predators

Picture if the fence netting, I'm wondering if it's going to be just a learning period?? They've only been outside since Monday. But I can't stand watching them all day waiting to rescue them from the fence. I'm quite sure that one of them would have died in the fence had we not been right here...

We spent quite a bit of time watching them, and they walk up and peck at the netting, get zapped and run right into the fence, one was scary because I was inside the house and she was caught around her neck in the fence.[/IMG]

Oh they are in the coop at night, it's locked down. I let the out around 7 am to free range within the fenced area, then they go back in at dusk. They are getting caught in the fence during the daytime.

I purchased a 165 foot roll of poultry netting and set it up around the coop. It's working great, both our dogs have gotten the education that the chickens bite , so does the fence. We heard something get learned around 2:30am the other morning and it sounded like a whale call crashing through...