Chickens in the rafters... Deer netting or poultry netting?

[Fenderville]

Chickens in the rafters... Deer netting or plastic poultry netting?

The hens are about 8 weeks old now and I went out lastnight to lock them up... LOL and i didn't see any hens around.. OMG!

They were all up in the rafters.. They didn't make a sound so it took a while to find them...

Anyway, I knew they would get up there just not this soon...

If I staple Deer Netting up there will that keep them out or do I need something stronger like Poultry Netting or the Plastic Poultry Netting?

Thanks all!

 

[Dogfish]

Why do you not want them up there?

 

[Bear Foot Farm]

I'd try deer netting first simply because it's cheaper and much easier to work with

 

[Bear Foot Farm]

Why do you not want them up there?

Would you want to be walking around UNDER a bunch of chickens?

 

[Lesa]

Sounds like the perfect place for roosting to me?? I am afraid my chickens would get tangled up in that deer netting- I mean I get tangled up in it!!!

 

[patandchickens]

I'd suggest something fairly flimsy (plastic netting) and small-mesh, so chickens are more apt to just bounce off rather than get entangled.

That said, people use all sorts of things and I'm not sure I've heard of a chicken getting stuck in it, so I don't think it's a BIG risk.

(Although I did just this morning have my good Sussex roo get stuck by both feet in the newly-reinstalled chickenwire pen divider, he flew into it without rememebering/seeing it was there

)

Pat

 

[Fenderville]

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The big problem is the poop gets EVERYWHERE.. I need them to use their roosts and the poo board..