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Just wanted to provide some updates. I have now staked down the entire fenced area with plastic stakes -- there is NO WAY any chicken is able to crawl underneath now. Yet, there have been 2 escapes in the past few weeks! So, my suspicion is that they are still somehow flying over. I'm...

wamtazlady -- That's something that always confused me. I know that the bottom strand isn't electrified -- what prevents a predator from crawling underneath the bottom strand if it isn't electrified? Also, I assume you are using plastic stakes to pin the fence down (as opposed to metal) due to...

I'm afraid my declaration of victory was premature. My chickens started escaping again a few weeks ago. I thought it was no big deal since I had only clipped the flight feathers on just one wing -- the solution would be to also clip the feathers on the other wing. So, I did that, and things...

I just wanted to follow-up and declare victory here. It looks like the feather-clipping was successful. Today is the 6th day with no escaping, which is a record. Thank you for all the helpful replies. One follow-up question -- do I need to keep an eye on things and clip these feathers again...

Thank you for all the helpful replies. I just clipped the flight feathers of each of their left wings, and if that doesn't work, I will clip the right wings as well. I will let you all know if it works!

Thanks to both of you for your very helpful replies. It seems likely that I will have to clip feathers. 2 questions: 1.) I know I could just Google it, but do you have any tried and true resources for how to do this? I've never done it before, so I don't want to mess anything up and hurt...

A little background here...I had a small flock (4 chickens) that I used to let free-range, but 2 of them got picked off by predators, so now I have created a large run area using electric fencing for the remaining 2. However, I am now running into issues with these remaining 2 chickens. Let me...