....I know you have to watch heelers, their nature is to control at all cost and chickens don't herd too well.. Grandparents free roamed maybe a hundred egg layers and had a large old shepherd breed dog, not German Shepherd,...he took the task of keeping the birds off the porch and out of a...
...I find that the light gauge chicken wire, 1 in, is great for overhead netting on my 50'X50' run. I placed 3 strategically located 8' T posts and support the overhead netting with fencing wire strung from perimeter posts to center posts. My perimeter fence is 6' welded wire in two 3'...