Electric wire to keep chickens on our block of land

[GallowayFarms]

If your neighbors garden isn't too big, help him by building a fence around his garden if they don't mind the chickens being in the rest of their yard. some steel "t" post and 4' chicken wire around a small garden shouldn't cost that much.

Either that or put 4' feet of fence on your side. If you have stuff to eat the chickens prob won't put in the effort to fly over the fence.

Or you can solve the prob by making a portable pen.

Cheers and good luck

Nick

 

[patandchickens]

I just want you to know that I now have the theme song from "Skippy the Bush Kangaroo" stuck in my head and will probably be tortured by it all day. Thanks a lot

lol,


Pat, who would prefer to at least have something with more than seven words to its lyrics, if I *have* to have *some* song stuck in my head

 

[jnjross]

how about a mesh fence? those plastic kind they use on construction sites. here it's cheaper to buy ag fencing than all those parts for a electric fence,

 

[skippy1969]

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Hi all

I realise it's been over a month since my last posting - but thought I'd give you one last update. We looked into the electric wire option but there seemed to be too many people saying there's only a 50% chance of it working due to many different reasons so we didn't want to spend money on a solution that might not work.

I tried to re-train the chickens by keeping them in their run until about 1-2pm and letting them out later in the day, and that worked but I made the mistake of letting them out at 12 noon last Sunday because we were going out for the day and I think with the extra time for them to get into mischief and the fact we were not around to keep an eye on them - 2 of the hens went wondering and dug up the neighbours garden AGAIN - oops. I have lovely neighbours and they are being very patient with me (they used to own chickens many yrs ago).

Therefore, we have now decided to put up either a proper wire fence just along one side of our block (or some plasitc construction mesh might even do the trick and work out cheaper - I wonder if it comes in other colours, other than fluro orange - hehe). We'd only put it just along the area where they go over, so we're not fencing the whole block so that should still allow the other wildlife to go back and forth. I don't think they will fly over because they don't fly over our veggie garden fence which is only about 4 feet high so I think that's our solution.

There is a slight chance that they will go "around" the fence but I think it's unlikely because they would have to go out of their way, a long way up or down the block to go around it.

Thanks for all your advise and opinions

D