Electric netting question

kelseyk

Free Ranging
Apr 11, 2017
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Right now I have a chicken wire fenced in day-time run that is attached to an old dog kennel that I have "Fort Knoxed" as a night-time run. The chicken shed is connected to the old dog kennel. I have a couple extra roosters from my last hatch that are getting to a mature age and am hatching out a bunch of eggs now, so sure I will end up with more roosters (too many for the number of chickens I will have). Anyway, I am looking for a way to separate the roosters into their own pen. I have been looking at the electric netting and was wondering if that will work as both a day-time and night-time run? Or do I risk anything getting in and getting them by not having a really secure pen to put them in at night?
 
They would need some sort of shelter to get out of the rain. It's not ideal but my husband said they never had a chicken house growing up, they were entirely free ranging and of course they lost chickens to predators. How attached are you to these roosters?
 
Okay thanks! They would still have a small shed to go into at night/for shelter. I am not really attached to them. The ones that we are attached to would stay in the pen with the hens. The others that would go in this pen would be ones I would try to sell or would be meat roosters.
 
I used electric netting for several years, never lost a chicken to a ground based predator. But I lost one to a hawk during the day and one to an owl at night. That owl walked into the shelter where I had them and pulled a juvenile out when I was not there to lock them up that night.

Electric netting will make them a lot safer at night but locking them in a secure shelter at night greatly increases security. With cockerels I say "shelter" you don't really need a "coop".
 
I used electric netting for several years, never lost a chicken to a ground based predator. But I lost one to a hawk during the day and one to an owl at night. That owl walked into the shelter where I had them and pulled a juvenile out when I was not there to lock them up that night.

Electric netting will make them a lot safer at night but locking them in a secure shelter at night greatly increases security. With cockerels I say "shelter" you don't really need a "coop".

Thanks so much!
 

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