Chickens not stopped by electric netting

[Penpal]

Ridgerunner, I was looking at the photo posted. The netting does not look like the poultry netting I have used. If it is as short as it looks, it is too short. If it as short as it looks, or much taller, a chick will be able to walk through for quite some time. Poultry netting has smaller squares/rectangles nearer the ground. I have used poultry netting and it is 48" high.

 

[3KillerBs]

Ridgerunner, I was looking at the photo posted. The netting does not look like the poultry netting I have used. If it is as short as it looks, it is too short. If it as short as it looks, or much taller, a chick will be able to walk through for quite some time. Poultry netting has smaller squares/rectangles nearer the ground. I have used poultry netting and it is 48" high.

You may be right. That doesn't look like the Premier 1 poultry netting. When I expanded the photo it seems to be something with a different sized mesh that must be made for a different kind of animal.

 

[JeffandLori]

How old are they?

After a while they get too big to go through the netting.

*Most* fly-overs can be stopped by clipping the flight feathers on one wing.

They are full grown and laying. I think they figured out if they put their head directly through the center it won't touch their comb and get zapped.

 

[JeffandLori]

You may be right. That doesn't look like the Premier 1 poultry netting. When I expanded the photo it seems to be something with a different sized mesh that must be made for a different kind of animal.

It is this Starkline netting:
https://www.amazon.com/gp/product/B07S3886XZ/ref=ppx_yo_dt_b_asin_title_o03_s00?ie=UTF8&psc=1

The bottom rows are shorter than the top ones.

 

[JeffandLori]

I'm thinking either tape with more juice so it's something they are curious of and get zapped and don't like it. Maybe. Or I redo the netting to keep them out of the melon patch and declare a truce.

 

[3KillerBs]

It is this Starkline netting:
https://www.amazon.com/gp/product/B07S3886XZ/ref=ppx_yo_dt_b_asin_title_o03_s00?ie=UTF8&psc=1

The bottom rows are shorter than the top ones.

The description says "Deters Foxes, Coyotes, Stray Dogs, Skunks, Bears, Raccoons, and Deer" and the photo shows a goat so it's probably anti-predator netting with the larger mesh rather than chicken-containment netting with the smaller mesh.

 

[JeffandLori]

Yep. You guys are right. I bought the wrong fence. It worked fine for the older ones, but I think because they went from coop/run to coop/run/fenced run they were happy to have the room. The new ones came from a place where the run was a solid 1/4 acre.

The vertical stringers are spaced 6 3/4". The horizontal ones are about 3 1/2 at the bottom. So, $150 down the drain. Maybe I can use it around the garden later for possums and such.

Or....just tolerate them having the freedom like so many "free range" chickens do.