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[chickenpapa]

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Oops! Misread the OP! My apologies. That is plenty of space for 25 chickens. I've edited my reply above.

 

[Junkmanme]

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You'd be better-off with electric fence wire on the chicken-wire fence One down low and one about mid-way up.
(Coyotes are smart enough to figure out that "barking-dog thing". And it would probably drive YOU crazy!!!)

-Junkmanme-

 

[Stevenson]

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Oops! Misread the OP! My apologies. That is plenty of space for 25 chickens. I've edited my reply above.

No Problem!

Another problem is that I have no electric where the chickens will be...so electric fence is out. I guess maybe I'll just have to buck up and spend a little more money. This fencing looks great (http://www.amazon.com/Keystone-Stee...1?ie=UTF8&s=home-garden&qid=1297377245&sr=8-1), but it also seems a bit more expensive than what I have been looking at. 8' Tposts run about $6 each from what I have seen...and I figure I'll have to at least get a few corner posts.

This may be turning out to be more expensive than what I had first hoped!! LOL but isn't that how hobbies go!

 

[Junkmanme]

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Oops! Misread the OP! My apologies. That is plenty of space for 25 chickens. I've edited my reply above.

No Problem!

Another problem is that I have no electric where the chickens will be...so electric fence is out. I guess maybe I'll just have to buck up and spend a little more money. This fencing looks great (http://www.amazon.com/Keystone-Stee...1?ie=UTF8&s=home-garden&qid=1297377245&sr=8-1), but it also seems a bit more expensive than what I have been looking at. 8' Tposts run about $6 each from what I have seen...and I figure I'll have to at least get a few corner posts.

This may be turning out to be more expensive than what I had first hoped!! LOL but isn't that how hobbies go!

I'm pretty sure that they make an "Electric Fence" set-up that will operate off of a car battery. You would just need to re-charge the battery occasionally. It's worth checking into. A "trickle-charger" to recharge a battery overnight is very inexpensive.

just a thought.
-Junkmanme-

 

[perchie.girl]

You could put in Tpost and field fence bout the cheapest to do. All you need is a post pounder or a sledge hammer to put the posts in. Then line the field fence on the inside with chicken wire. The field fence is to keep dogs out the chicken wire is to keep chickens in. Last time I priced tpost and field fence it was about 89 cents a linear foot. A roll of field fence is about 300 feet I believe and its around 150 bucks. The Tposts are around 5-7 bucks each. Then top with netting to keep the flying preditors out. I would then run a strand of electric wire around the base to help discourage canine diggers.

I am doing dog kennel panels. The run is going to be 24 x 60. We have Bobcat Mountain lion Feral Dogs and Coyotes. The Kennel panels are six by six. And No I didnt just go out and buy them I had them already. Long story. I will have to run a center line of posts along with a bar to connect them to support the netting.