Electric Poultry Netting??

[jaku]

Does this work pretty good? How does it compare to a tractor? As far as Cornish X's, how caked in poo would a 40' x 40' area be after 5 weeks with 50-100 of them? What happens when a bird touches the electrified part? I found it pretty cheap for a large area, but not sure how well it works.

 

[Burbs]

I am definitely interested in this too. I like the tractor for small batches, but leaning toward the idea of raising a bunch at once and being done with it for the year.

 

[Le Canard de Barbarie]

I have Premier 1's Permanet for poultry with doublespike posts. Won't work for young chicks or ducklings. My muscovy ducklings had to be four weeks old before they were too big to go through the fence.

When they hit the fence with their head they will make a noise. Nothing serious. The charger I use is the Patriot P5. Meanwhile my LGD puppy squeals for a good ten seconds. The neighborhood must think I am abusing her.

 

[DonnaBelle]

We have 2 40' x 40' put together to make a huge run for our grown chickens. about 35 of them.

We have a large chicken house for them to be in at night, but the electric fenced in area is where they are during the day. We have about 30 hens, 1 RIR roo, 1 EE roo, and 3 banty roos. They keep a close eye on the flying predators, and herd everyone in if they see/hear any.

There is a pecan tree and a large plum thicket also in the run.

We love the electric fence. I think 4 legged predators can sense the electric fencing. We have never seen any sign of digging or anything.

I backed into it while mowing and believe me, that won't happen again. OUCH!!! My DH laughed for a week.

PS I ordered the fence from Kencove, nice folks.

Donna

 

[Burbs]

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This is really the part that I am most interested in.

 

[Buster52]

Electric netting is in our future. I'm finding the tractors to be just too hot in our Oklahoma summers, and too much work to move every day. I'm building a portable coop on the back of an old 1 ton truck I got cheap at an auction, and going to run the netting around that. I've seen this stuff moved pretty easily, so we would rotate it around the truck every so often, with the truck coop in the corner. After all that ground is covered, we will take down the netting while the birds are still in the coop, fire up the truck and move to new pasture, then set back up again.

That's the plan anyway.

Babarie, are you keeping that LDG inside the perimeter of the netting with the birds, or on the outside?

 

[jaku]

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This is really the part that I am most interested in.

Ditto- I wouldn't mind NOT moving a tractor every day- could you keep them in that area their entire lives, or do people with meaties have to move the enclosure at some point to fresh ground?

 

[Le Canard de Barbarie]

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The LDG puppy is inside the perimeter of the netting with the ducks. She is only two months old so far.

You can almost view the movable fencing as a chicken tractor, only much bigger. The dog is there to act as a further deterrent to any predators.

 

[farmboy238]

Burbs,
The Cornish are MUCH better used with a chicken tractor. If you want to use a day range model ,(Poultry Net), I have had better luck using S&G's Johnny Gray. The Grays will forage MUCH better than the Cornish and will still give you an accelerated growth that isn't quite as good as the Cornish but is still impressive. I doubt if the Cornish would ever see most of a 40x40 foot area!

 

[jaku]

No one able to weigh in on the poo-probability question?