electric fence

  1. R

    Backyard coyotes

    We lost two of our sweet pullets yesterday to neighborhood coyotes. We believe a coyote jumped our back chain link fence (the rest of the perimeter is a 6 ft tall wooden fence). I didn't think a coyote could jump a fence, but the feathers on the grass / coyote peeking in proved me wrong! We...
  2. hypnozze

    Electric fencing for chickens and dogs

    Hello everyone! I am new to electric fencing and would like to install one in our property in order to keep my chickens and dogs inside of it. We have foxes and hawks and at the moment our chickens free range on 4 acres around our house. One of our dogs is also free ranging and does not wander...
  3. Willowspirit

    Mountain Lion?

    The only predator that I know of for sure that has attacked on our property is a mountain lion. A couple of years ago before we owned the place, a cat attacked one of the horses here. It did not end well for the horse. Can chicken coops be made safe from cougars? Will electricity do it?
  4. J

    Electric fence wire around chicken coop

    Has anyone used an electric wire around their chicken coop? We are building our coop and run now and we have many predators where we live. We live in northern Minnesota, and just recently we have had a 350-400lb black bear come to our front porch twice in search of bird seed. We take all our...
  5. GinaTheDuck

    Electric wire for a duck coop?

    I was thinking of adding an electric wire around the base of my duck's coop/run to keep raccoons out. I had one eat an egg that I had forgotten on top of the coop and it rattled my duck pretty bad, plus I'm worried now that they've found food there that they'll keep bothering her. Would an...
  6. PennysHennys

    Is the fence on? Is the coop door closed?

    I live on a rural property in the neighborhood of most predators in the southeast. Although I check on my girls and gather eggs several times throughout the day, it makes me feel better for their wellbeing to do one last check after dark. (I have been known to forget to push the button on the...
  7. SniperGoose

    Electric fencing?

    This is gonna be a long post, so please bare with me lol So we have around 1 acre fenced off for our chickens, geese, and ducks. The fence itself is 4 feet tall, and is chicken wire with metal fence posts. Since fencing that area off, I haven't lost any flock members to predators. However, I...
  8. CanadaEh

    protecting existing fence with hot electric wire from raccoon/mink

    We have raccoon frequenting chicken run at night in search for food scraps (the run doubles as a compost pile). I don't like that proximity of raccoon to chickens (locked in the coop at night, but still) + possibility of decease transmission via food sharing or feces. I recon it is time to spend...
  9. K

    Electric fences and pet dogs

    Hi BYC!! We are moving our flock to bear country . We have an 8 foot chain link perimeter fence around part of the property. We want to add an electric fence to the perimeter fence. We are worried about our pet dogs, how can we set this up so that nothing gets in from the outside, but if our...
  10. MeowPonyMix

    Polytape Electric Fencing, will it fry my chickens?

    Presently working on putting together an area for chickens for supervised free ranging. Area will be approximately 40'X40', can easily go larger if necessary. Planning on utilizing some existing fencing that I use for my horses, which includes 6' capped t posts, and no climb wire (buried some as...
  11. k2panman

    two layers of 2"x4" electrified mesh?

    I'm thinking about building my first chicken coop - a newbie to chickens, but I've been doing a lot of reading here on BYC (Mahalo nui loa to everyone who contributes here - fantastic information!) I have built houses, parts for rocket ships, etc, and have lots of tools, so construction is not...
  12. Jennyrose1127

    Hello

    Hello there. I’ve come across Backyard Chickens many times over the last year but haven’t joined until today. I had a mixed flock of 10 sweet, beautiful chickens. They were just over a year old when I lost them all to a daytime raccoon attack on March 31. I’m devastated by the loss. Their run...
  13. Joeschooks

    Permanent electric fence set-up with gate

    I built another run last year and predator proofing took a surprising amount of thought. By far our biggest problem is foxes. It was too expensive to put a fox proof roof on the whole area so it had to be open top and protected by electric fence. But poultry netting seemed like a somewhat...
  14. Erik the epic

    If anyone knows anything about goats and electric fences, I need your help

    I Know this is not chicken related but I need help. What you need to know is that we have an electric fence dividing a pasture in two. I just came home and saw that my goat was on the other side of the fence and the wires were hanging down,they were not super tight to start with but they are...
  15. ovniologo

    Benson, Arizona Coop design, free range or not, DLM or not

    I'm new in this I order 8 chicks they are arriving next week. I'm now looking around for the coop design I guess I have 6 weeks to have it ready because base of what I have read they are big enough for the coop. I been weeks reading and I have an information overflow and the sky is the limit...
  16. R Victoria Peterson

    Electric Fencing/Netting That is at Least 5 Feet High?

    I have an awesome coop which is super secure for the girls at night . . I have had no issues at night while they are sleeping BUT I had a coyote show up in broad daylight a few days ago while they were free-ranging and I have been since researching semi-permanent fencing for them so they may...
  17. user452147

    Electric Fences and Rabbits

    I recently set up an electric fence to keep my chickens off the porch, the fence had multiple strands of the 1/2 inch polly tape and with in a day, the chickens figured out the fence isn't something you want to touch. The electric fence works great for the chickens they don't ever go through it...
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  18. goldeaglenest

    Checking my Electric Fence setup

    I would be so grateful if some of you could comment on my electric fence setup. I am not entirely confident in what I am doing, but have read many things online and I still have some questions! Here is what I have: -Kencove electric netting, 48 inches tall and I believe about 140 ft. Long -A...
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