I have a brand new “square foot garden” that is 4x8 not very big.
I have always free ranged my chickens 1-3 times a week for a few hours at a time. After chasing the first group into my property a couple of times, in 2 years they’ve never again left my 1.3 acre lot even when I’ve left them out from 9-5 on a weekend. It’s really been awesome, I love watching the hens work.
since building my garden I have been totally paranoid about letting them out. And because I need to put them away before going inside, when they do get out it’s while I am grilling etc so only for an hour maybe and they are not nearly as easy to lure back to the run with treats, because being outside Is now a rare luxury. Used to be shaking the corn can easily extremely easy way to get them back into the run and lock them up as long as they had 90 mins or so before I tried that.
what is the most cost effective way for me to build a portable fence, my garden doesn’t get enough sunlight for me to want to permanently wrap it in hardware cloth etc. I am envisioning something more like PVC and fabric netting that I just put out when I want the chickens to be allowed out. It has to go around the back trellis as pictured. How tall a fence do you think is needed just to keep them more interested in the grass?0
Thanks for any ideas, my flock will be very happy to be allowed out when I get home from work againin evenings and weekends!
I have always free ranged my chickens 1-3 times a week for a few hours at a time. After chasing the first group into my property a couple of times, in 2 years they’ve never again left my 1.3 acre lot even when I’ve left them out from 9-5 on a weekend. It’s really been awesome, I love watching the hens work.
since building my garden I have been totally paranoid about letting them out. And because I need to put them away before going inside, when they do get out it’s while I am grilling etc so only for an hour maybe and they are not nearly as easy to lure back to the run with treats, because being outside Is now a rare luxury. Used to be shaking the corn can easily extremely easy way to get them back into the run and lock them up as long as they had 90 mins or so before I tried that.
what is the most cost effective way for me to build a portable fence, my garden doesn’t get enough sunlight for me to want to permanently wrap it in hardware cloth etc. I am envisioning something more like PVC and fabric netting that I just put out when I want the chickens to be allowed out. It has to go around the back trellis as pictured. How tall a fence do you think is needed just to keep them more interested in the grass?0
Thanks for any ideas, my flock will be very happy to be allowed out when I get home from work againin evenings and weekends!