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    How to shorten electric netting?

    Looked into it and law states ‘electric fence shall be a legal fence when agreed to in writing by the adjoining property owners.’ Thankfully were very close with our only neighbors (corner lot) and they love our girls. Looks like I’m baking cookies and asking them to agree to it in writing!
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    How to shorten electric netting?

    Thanks for the tip! We’re going to head to fleet farm and pick up some extra step in posts tonight now :)
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    How to shorten electric netting?

    We’re actually using: https://www.premier1supplies.com/p/poultrynet-plus-48-inch-starter-kit?gclid=EAIaIQobChMIu6nnr_W35AIVkYbACh2gLgxuEAQYASABEgJ-svD_BwE So I’ve created a ‘gate’ just by tying the 2 end posts together and when we want to get in we just turn off the energizer, untie and walk...
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    How to shorten electric netting?

    Well hopefully it decides not to come back *fingers crossed* But in the chance it does we added protection for them. We also have raccoons, badgers etc so its a good overall predator deterrent
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    How to shorten electric netting?

    There’s no netting above. The max height here is also 6’ but I’m not changing the height. We’ve just run netting inside our fenced yard creating a free range area inside of our yard.
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    How to shorten electric netting?

    I probably didn’t make this clear. I’m not running this all around our property. We’ve created a free range area within our 1/4 acre fully fenced yard (6’ wood).
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    How to shorten electric netting?

    Why wouldn’t it be? It’s not a full on electric fence it’s electric poultry netting basically an electric dog fence which for sure is used all over the city.
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    How to shorten electric netting?

    He was jumping on our cans as well, they were pushed up against the fence up until we realized how he was getting in and out. We’ve since moved them far away from the fence.
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    How to shorten electric netting?

    Thank you so much! So sorry for the delayed reply we’ve been so busy trying to order all the parts for this fence (living in a city not near farming supplies makes it tough). Just shortened it today by cutting the horizontal wires and reconnecting the hot wires with a mending kit. Thank you...
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    How to shorten electric netting?

    Hello fellow BYC folks Sadly, last week we lost one of our 4 sweet girls to a fox with severe mange during the middle of the day. I know this is part of the risk we take in owning chickens but it’s been devastating for me and husband. We’re urban chicken keepers with about 1/4 acre of a...
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    Trying to identify this beaut

    Thank you! Just googled and you're right on the money :)
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    Trying to identify this beaut

    Hello, My name is Rachel and my husband and I recently attended the Wisconsin State fair. While there we saw a gorgeous rooster but sady my hubby forgot to take a picture of the name card and only got a picture of the rooster. Can anyone else us identify his breed? Thank you so much!
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