Fencing

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LOVE this! do you have building plans for it? Would love to use that idea in my yard!
 
Bairo,
Last summer I had one hen who was going over the fence. And she would not go back over to get back inside, just run along it looking for a way in. And funny enough it was my biggest heaviest hen. I just clipped her flight feathers, takes only a couple of seconds and the problem was solved. Her flight feathers are grown back in now and she doesn't go over the fence any more.

12henfun,
We don't have any plans for the fence. I just drew on paper what I wanted and my husband had a builder build it for us. I had to stain it , took me like 3 week ends to get it stained. My husband and I work long hours and so my husband thought it was best to pay a builder to make it. We had him replace the rails on our porch too so that they all matched. Our chicken yard is right outside our door so I wanted it to look nice. The black hardware was an expensive part of it, there were cheaper options but I wanted black hardware.

If you or your husband were handy it wouldn't be hard to build, but for my husband to take a week away from his truck ( he owns a semi truck) when we weren't going on a vacation seemed a waste. And when we priced getting everything from the building center plus a weeks profit from the truck it was half of that to just have a builder build it. The builder has worked for us before and we like his work, the fence turned out exactly like what I drew for them.
I will post some more pictures for you so you can see some of the details. The order the builder did it in was 1. stakes and string for where it would go. 2. posts put into the ground with cement. They are deep due to Michigan frost. 3. build the wood parts after the posts set up for a couple days. then last they put the wire on and built the gates.

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This last one is while it was being built.
 
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How about plain old white picket fencing? Reminds me of the "American Dream" setting. Our fencing has plastic coated wire stapled to the inside, to prevent the chickens from walking through the planks, and it looks pretty. (and Sweet Peas like to travel up the wire) There's green vinyl coated chicken wire, or 1# black vinyl square "rabbit fencing" and green vinyl hardware cloth, etc............

My favorite feature of this fence is the FLAT TOP posts, so you can set your cups of coffee on there while visiting neighbors.

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Good luck. People get so creative with chicken fencing. I bet you'll think up something great
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very nice 6chickens. The plantings look good too, I have had good luck with evergreens in the chicken yard. So far anything I plant outside the fence but right up next to it gets eat up. I will try sweet peas this spring.
 
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But be warned: plenty of people still do the stinkeye at my chickens. Some have complained. Even if it's pretty, conservative, designed professionally, landscaped professionally, people sometimes dislike anybody different from themselves, and they will be insulting, belligerent and loud about it.

Even if you built a cathedral for your chickens and handed cash to onlookers, the complainy people will still complain. That's just the way they are.

I have had lovely visitors who like living by chickens, and I have had belligerent complainers who dose out words like "hillbilly", "stink" or "illegal" (its not illegal). I wish I had a better internal filter for negative feedback, but I feel the insults far greater than I feel the compliments. Try not to be like me, OK? Just do like my chicken lovin' neighbor who doses out "...like I care" to nay-sayers. She doesn't care. She just likes her chickens and goes on.
 

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