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  1. Shezadandy

    Official BYC Poll: How Do You Protect Your Chickens From Predators?

    Yes! Generally we'll get a day or two of snow or none at all. When the Arctic does it's drop into the US trick is when we get nailed. I've had ice, then snow, then ice - this is the first time it's been ice only. The net held up REALLY well. It only ripped in 2 spots where big branches...
  2. Shezadandy

    Official BYC Poll: How Do You Protect Your Chickens From Predators?

    That is the worst sound. Boy, 5 weeks, happily we're still in week 1 - still no power yet. We're last on the list because of our (lack of) population density. Before we lost internet access, there had been 1200 individual either breaks or trees on line reported on the electric grid. We...
  3. Shezadandy

    Official BYC Poll: How Do You Protect Your Chickens From Predators?

    I found the limits for aviary netting. We're finally at the tail end of a horrible ice storm that's gone from Thursday until today. I've got so many downed trees that all I can do is start at the shop to get the tractor out and try to clear the driveway first. For days we've had no power...
  4. Shezadandy

    Official BYC Poll: How Do You Protect Your Chickens From Predators?

    I think the biggest sheet is 50 x 100ft -- (edited to add: There are 100x100ft ones for a lot more $$) my run is also very large and extends well past the rain shelter on both sides - I used zip ties (the smallest version, 4" I think) to stitch them together at the seams. You wouldn't want to...
  5. Shezadandy

    Official BYC Poll: How Do You Protect Your Chickens From Predators?

    You must have timid hawks! Around here I had a hawk try and dive on a broody hen with chicks no more than 10 feet away from where I was standing. The aviary netting is what saved her.
  6. Shezadandy

    Official BYC Poll: How Do You Protect Your Chickens From Predators?

    Aviary netting (nylon not plastic) is pretty cost effective. The bigger cost was putting 12ft posts into the ground to keep the net up nice and high.
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