Electric Poultry Netting??

[brandywine]

I should have mentioned that the range broilers' shelter within the electronet was a 10' x 10' EZ-up nylon canopy.

This worked fine in the mild, dry weather we were having. If I'd needed it, I could have added a 7' x 3' tractor for them.

 

[Buster52]

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That would be so nice to able to do. Unfortunately that canopy would make a gigantic kite where the wind comes sweepin' down the plain (Oklahoma!).

 

[brandywine]

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That would be so nice to able to do. Unfortunately that canopy would make a gigantic kite where the wind comes sweepin' down the plain (Oklahoma!).

We get some doozies here, as our western exposure is open hayfield. The wind tends to be a lot less in the summer, and we've got the topography to provide shelter from the summer wind, though not once it really picks up in the fall and starts pitching shingles off the barn, knocking over the weathervane, and depositing my neighbors' political yard signs on my porch.

I raised the canopy only a couple of feet, and staked it down like Dracula. Sited it so it would be behind a wall, hillock, clump of trees from the prevailing wind. No problems.

 

[Harp Turkey Ranch]

We use the premeir 1 fence for our broiler operation. We use a 1/8 acre for 100 birds. which is 2 rolls of fence. We move the water and feeders every morning before we let the birds out. After 30 days we put more back on. The poop levels are were they eat and sleep. We add a new layer of bedding to their house every 3 days or so and that seems to work good. But we steer our around the area with the food and water and they spread the manure great at the end we clean out the bedding in the house and compost it man is it great stuff. Plus the birds can not eat the grass faster then it grows around here when its growing and so I have to run the goats thru the chicken area after they are done.

 

[chickenannie]

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Keep us posted on your results!

 

[cw]

we use the net from kencove, and is pretty pleased, and it was priced better then the premeir fence

 

[Mr. Peepers]

Tried electric netting, but it didn't work for my flock. My birds flew over the net at the slightest provocation. While clipping wings might solve that problem sometimes there are just too many birds to hassle with. Worse still, some of my birds flew into the net and became entangled in it. It wasn't pretty and could happen even with clipped wings. The other serious problem I encountered was winged predators. Electric netting does nothing to keep them out.

 

[chickenannie]

Mr. Peepers :

Tried electric netting, but it didn't work for my flock. My birds flew over the net at the slightest provocation. While clipping wings might solve that problem sometimes there are just too many birds to hassle with. Worse still, some of my birds flew into the net and became entangled in it. It wasn't pretty and could happen even with clipped wings. The other serious problem I encountered was winged predators. Electric netting does nothing to keep them out.

which height netting did you use?​

 

[greyfields]

It works brilliantly and is far easier than using tractors. Photos of my broiler set-up somewhere towards the last page here:

https://www.backyardchickens.com/forum/viewtopic.php?id=212412

If you get the netting, buy from Premier. Then you'll only have to buy it once, rather than twice because you got the cheap stuff.

I try to keep the netting running in the 4.0 kV range. That keeps the birds in; and the geese, goats, ducks, racoons, sheep, etc. out. The advantage of this system is that you only need to move the tractor once if you use two 162' rolls of the stuff; rather than daily.

 

[Brunty_Farms]

That's funny because I really don't like the stuff all that much. It sags if you have any kind of terrain. Flat property like you have works fine. Any kind of hill makes the bottom wires touch the ground.

Any kind of wind.... blows the netting and again makes it sag really bad.

Birds do not stay in at all, I use it for layers and turkeys. I stoped using it for layers because they fly right over the stuff. Clipping wings isn't an option as they fly to roost and fly to get away from hawks as like stated... it doesn't do much for the predators in the sky. Which is usually the biggest problem with poultry anyway as most of true predators are at night.

Turkeys are too dumb to realize that the stuff is hurting them and just get tangled in it.

I'm sure it works great for broilers as they don't fly.... don't really have the ambition to see what's on the other side of the fence like a layer would. Frankly they are quite content to whats right in front of them so the fence makes a good addition for a broiler operation that free ranges. I think the fence is designed more for keeping out predators than keeping poultry in.

I bought two rolls.... won't buy any more. I'm looking more for a higher, more permanent fence that can withstand some duration instead of being moved every few days.