Best fencing for a combined garden/chicken run?

[Keggen]

We have a large fenced area for our chickens that is about 6 ft high. Doesn't matter to some of them, the lighter breeds like white leghorns and California white are notorious for flying up and over. Most of the others are too heavy to be able to fly over though.

 

[4 the Birds]

We have a large fenced area for our chickens that is about 6 ft high. Doesn't matter to some of them, the lighter breeds like white leghorns and California white are notorious for flying up and over. Most of the others are too heavy to be able to fly over though.

Leghorns are known to be a "flighty" breed but VERY good egg layers. Good point that certain breeds are much easier to stay fenced. We don't have any Leghorns due to their flighty nature and they are not great for northern cold extremes.

 

[cloudwalker1]

Thanks for the feedback. I think we have decided to go with the paddock idea, with a 100' square of 5' fence combined with electric fence, and section it into 4 paddocks with cheaper chicken wire on the inside. That would give us 4, 50' square sections to rotate the chickens in. Any idea how many chickens this would support, or has anyone else tried this? We live in north Georgia.

 

[HaplessRunner]

My garden is approximately 40' x 60' with a bump out for a compost area. Because of the severe deer problem in Virginia, I built a 6 ft high welded wire fence to keep the deer out and to reduce the ground hogs and rabbits. The mesh size was 2" x 4". I have found that while deer can get over a 6' fence, they will not even try unless they are desperate and being chased. Occasionally rabbits and a ground hog will find its way into the garden but a 20 gauge shotgun and tightening up the fence usually resolves the problem without too much loss of veggies.

I allowed my chickens access to the garden over the fall and winter. The absolutely destroyed the compost pile! I use 4' high electric netting for my main chicken fencing. I also use the Nite Guard solar powered LEDs around the coop area for predators. While I cannot attest to its effectiveness, I can say that I have not lost a chicken to s predator since I started using this in June 2012.

There are proably a number of ways that you can use to make this work for you. This is what works for me.

 

[PacasNChicks]

I'm just bumping this thread up, in hopes of some answers. I'm still concerned about what I have to do to keep chickens from escaping the large garden area I plan to enclose with deer fencing...will the chickens just fly right over it?

Any thoughts appreciated!

by now you probly have your answers about your flying chickens ... I didn't look further but in case you didn't find an answer... all you need to do is clip the feathers on one side of your chickens. they can't fly that way. I have had parakeets and would clip their wings and my dad told me its the same idea with chickens. except you only need to clip one side