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post #11 of 15
5/17/12 at 9:51am

Yes..only 164 ft.  My solar charger was around $100 back when I bought it at a local hardware store several years back.  I don't remember the name brand. 
 

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post #12 of 15
5/17/12 at 10:14am
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I am curious if the two of you use it for meaties. I have premiers from before I had my dogs for my layers. I have always questioned the practicality of using it for meat birds, because of the size of the squares. By the time the birds get big enough for it to be useful, they only have a couple of weeks before processing. So, what's the point?
I do see some are using it, however.

 

I should follow up on this and mention I have since put my meaties inside my Premier1 netting and it is working great.

 

164' isn't nearly enough though. I'm going to run two nets for meaties, and at least 4 for my layers once I move them to the back pasture. Right now we are just exiting (we hope) a drought, and my pasture is subpar, so they go through the smaller section way too fast. Three or four days max and I have to move it. Hope it will be better when our pastures recover.

 

On energizers, joules are what matter. For chickens .05 should be fine. For goats, you need something with more kick, so I have a 3 joule charger that I also have my poultry netting attached to. But gauge your rating to what you want to keep out as well as keep in.

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"There are too many books in the world to read in a single lifetime; you have to draw the line somewhere." --Diane Setterfield, The Thirteenth Tale

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post #13 of 15
5/21/12 at 8:39pm
I have the Kencove for my freedom rangers. My main gripe is that the bottom sags and folds a lot. I have to put T-posts along the entire bottom to keep it from folding over and not touching the ground. We lost 15 chickens because something (weasel?) got through the net. We have the bottom wire unhooked. We have it hooked to our cattle fence that has a 100 mile fencer on it and at most 10 miles of wire, so it has one hell of a punch! And I know this first hand. smile.png
I am not sure if the Premier has the same problem and would be interested to know as I want to buy more. We have a 10x12 tractor and can get 6 moves out of the 165' fencing. We have 100 birds and move in the morning and at night, so in 3 days, we have to move the whole thing. Not so bad if we didn't have to lug the t-posts with us and a bunch of bricks to make up for uneven ground. Last year we mowed a grid in the pasture so we didn't have to do it every move.
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post #14 of 15
5/22/12 at 4:54am

I use the Premiere Poultry Net Plus netting from Premiere 1. I use it for ducks, laying hens/roosters and meat birds. I keep the meat birds in a 10x10 pvc/chickenwire pen and move that every day inside of the netting. It works quite well.

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post #15 of 15
5/22/12 at 5:54am

I keep my CX in a hoop house tractor but ring it with the 164' Kencove net for predator control.  I have a .35joule charger and a Rayovac 6v fence battery I picked up super cheap at TSC.  I only turn it on at night since we don't seem to have problems during the day, so the battery lasts without a solar charger. 
 

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