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There is only a very small percentage of bears who become a problem. My motto is live and let live. Keep a safe distance, don't try to touch or feed it, don't threathen it especially if it has cubs. In other words, use your common sense! We moved into their habitat, after all. I have...
The netting is useless in the winter as it will short under the snow. Mine sagged and some poles fell. I had to walk along the perimeter today and shore up what had fallen, and take off branches that fell on the net. Not a big deal but I haven't plugged it in all winter because of this. The...
But it isn't and my chickens are not pet chickens.
Discussion closed as far as I am concerned. I am not going to respond to any other posts on this topic.
That would have been both illegal and unnecessary. The bear was not bothering anyone, it was just curious and I prevented that it would become a problem by putting up the electro net, which also, by the way stopped a fox, who we have never seen again.
Yes, I have 4 poultry nets from Premier chained together, enclosing about an acre. Coupled with a heavy duty energizer and the net will deliver a 7000 volt shock. Our property is heavily wooded and the only thing you have to consider is tree limbs falling on the netting and shorting it out...