Lovely. Is that an electric fence?
Yes, the white netting is an "electronet" Poultry Plus moveable fence. Powered by a solar/chargeable 12 volt battery. Remember Peanut got zapped a while ago? I got a non-electric fence ready to go as an inner barrier, but ended up never setting it up because they all avoided the fence after two more zap incidents shortly after Peanut's. It's been clear they know about the fence and where they can be. They will forage about a foot from it at the closest point, and they don't stay there long. I think they've learned from eachother about it. Maybe they hear the slight click it makes and that reinforces the training. They don't "free range" outside their moveable runs without me nearby due to hawks, so they can't be near it without me around anyway.

I pick dandelion leaves near to the fence for them and they watch me while foraging some waiting for me to bring them over to them. Whereas when I pick from other places they come running over by me and also pick.
 
It's Friday!

Watching Phyllis' molt got me thinking about Patsy's molt, which got me looking at old photos. In the old photos I also came across photos of Daisy, the greatest hen ever, molting. Daisy molted slowly and the only way you knew was that her feathers went from yellow to bright white and you could see the yellow patches on her. This photo shows how awful Patsy's molt was while you can see both the old and new feathers on Daisy.

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In celebration of Friday, here is Daisy post molt. Look at how bright and shiny her new white feathers are. 🥰
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I truly believe that if I had better photography skills Hattie would have run away with this. I'm sorry Hattie.
And so begins the quest (which we will all enjoy) to get the perfect Hattie picture. That pose really was special so maybe try and recreate it for Hattie.
 
Yes, the white netting is an "electronet" Poultry Plus moveable fence. Powered by a solar/chargeable 12 volt battery. Remember Peanut got zapped a while ago? I got a non-electric fence ready to go as an inner barrier, but ended up never setting it up because they all avoided the fence after two more zap incidents shortly after Peanut's. It's been clear they know about the fence and where they can be. They will forage about a foot from it at the closest point, and they don't stay there long. I think they've learned from eachother about it. Maybe they hear the slight click it makes and that reinforces the training. They don't "free range" outside their moveable runs without me nearby due to hawks, so they can't be near it without me around anyway.

I pick dandelion leaves near to the fence for them and they watch me while foraging some waiting for me to bring them over to them. Whereas when I pick from other places they come running over by me and also pick.
That is exactly why I was asking. At the moment I have only the non-electric version set up. They don't go over it but it would delay a fox maybe all of 2 minutes!
I was going to set up just a single hot wire outside it - but I do have about 100' of electric netting similar to yours. Maybe I use that instead of a single or double hot wire. Mind you, I need more than 100'. Hmmm.
I was delaying connecting anything just because I still have to dig the drainage ditch around where the ground wire is but maybe I should just put the fence up and be done.
 

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