Chicken yard using woven aviary netting? HELP

[Tricknf8]

Got 150' of woven plastic aviary netting. Cannot for the life of me get it to stretch properly to attach to the posts - it sags at the top, badly; I want to use it for the sides as well as top of a yard for my layers

Anyone else do this before? do the posts have to be really close together or something? the fencing is 6' high. THanks much!!!

 

[jjamerb]

I used butt tabs for roofing paper. They are nails with round plastic tab. It helps hold netting in place.

 

[patandchickens]

It will sag unless you have something rigid along the top holding it up. Either a top wooden board (recommended), or at least a very tightly strung HEAVY GAUGE wire or rope (which, beware, will cause your corner posts to keel over unless they are extra-well properly braced, which hardly anybody's ever are).

You know that the aviary netting is not predatorproof in any way whatsoever, right? So, this is in a truly totally all-possible-predatory-mammal-proof larger enclosure, yes?

Good luck, have fun,

Pat