bluemerle
Songster
My "babies" are now a month old & getting big - time for them to move outside. Not a problem! They have the run of a chainlink fence backyard and almost zero predator pressure in the daytime. Except ... sometimes I have to be out of town, all day and sometimes well into the next morning, and night time is when the friendly neighborhood goose eaters are looking for dinner.
I have a duck run I built cheaply and quickly when I had them: it's a square made out of t-posts with hardware cloth wired to them with regular old bailing wire. Worked great for the ducks: they never bothered the wire that secures the fence to the t-posts. But now I have geese who need to occupy it while I'm gone, and they put their mouths on EVERYTHING. I'm very concerned about them breaking off a piece of wire (because it's secured on the bottom, and is therefor at mouth-level) and dying from hardware poisoning.
What's the most sensible thing to do? Just double-fence it with some tarp so they can't access the wire (but sacrifice visibility)? Is there something safer (but inexpensive) I can replace the bailing wire ties with? I know the ideal option is building with lumber and screwing the fencing down, but that's not a feasible financial option right now.
I have a duck run I built cheaply and quickly when I had them: it's a square made out of t-posts with hardware cloth wired to them with regular old bailing wire. Worked great for the ducks: they never bothered the wire that secures the fence to the t-posts. But now I have geese who need to occupy it while I'm gone, and they put their mouths on EVERYTHING. I'm very concerned about them breaking off a piece of wire (because it's secured on the bottom, and is therefor at mouth-level) and dying from hardware poisoning.
What's the most sensible thing to do? Just double-fence it with some tarp so they can't access the wire (but sacrifice visibility)? Is there something safer (but inexpensive) I can replace the bailing wire ties with? I know the ideal option is building with lumber and screwing the fencing down, but that's not a feasible financial option right now.
