Is a 3 foot high fence tall enough for bantams?

[perrym1962]

Mine could clear a 6 foot fence no problem. Then I clipped their wings and slowed them tremendously.....

 

[Tala]

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I may have to do that!

BUT if you do it that way, then you'll have all the downsides that come with a run that you can't walk through.

My chicken tractor's detached run is 27" high, but I can simply flip it over to access the underbelly of it, or move it out of the way to get at the ground underneath. If you put up an actual fence with fence posts then you are gonna have troubles if you need to do any cleaning or maintaining, or even chicken catching....

 

[millie481]

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I may have to do that!

BUT if you do it that way, then you'll have all the downsides that come with a run that you can't walk through.

My chicken tractor's detached run is 27" high, but I can simply flip it over to access the underbelly of it, or move it out of the way to get at the ground underneath. If you put up an actual fence with fence posts then you are gonna have troubles if you need to do any cleaning or maintaining, or even chicken catching....

True...so, then make it so that you can just flip it over like Tala's. instead of digging posts into the ground, make a base frame.

 

[millie481]

An other plus to that is that you can move them around, fertilize here, then fertilize there....

 

[Jmurcks]

I guess I never thought of getting in there much and it would be a pretty large area fenced in... about 25'x25' divided down the middle.
I have my coop built in a way I can seperate it down the middle and that is where the divided section of the fence comes in.
I was just thinking of seperating my two breeding pairs on either side of the coop but I didn't want the roos jumping in with the other hen.

 

[pbjmaker]

I find my feather footed d'uccles on top of my garage roof sometimes...

My frizzled cochins couldn't get over three foot but my smooth feathered ones - no problem.

I have a three foot fence around my flower garden and they were in there often anyway. The standards just smashed it down to get in and the banties flew over.

Just depends on if there is some kind reason they want to jump the fence.

 

[LizFM]

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I may have to do that!

If you do, make sure that the top of the run can withstand the weight of a dog (unless the area where the run will be is Fort Knox and no large dogs or other predators can get in). I say dogs because they are probably hands down the most common predator BYC folk contend with.

I don't know a whole lot of dogs that could jump on top of a six foot run. (my own dog probably could if she was motivated, but she's unusually athletic) Climb maybe.

But a 3 foot run? Most bigger dogs could probably get on top of that pretty easily. Would netting hold a dog on top of it?

Maybe I just have a gift for visualizing stuff that could go wrong.

 

[KCNC06]

We have a 5 foot fence that makes our chicken/guinea yard, and it seems like some birds have more interest in getting out than others. If your bantams aren't interested in getting out, the height of the fence might not matter. Our Leghorn learned how to jump the fence faster than anyone else. It took a few months for our EE to learn, and another month for our Barred Rock to figure it out and she still has plenty of days that she just can't figure out how to jump. Plus, none of them actually jump over the fence - they go over the gate.

Our two Seabright's (bantams) have no interest in leaving the comfort of their yard. Even when we leave the gate open these girls have absolutely no interest in leaving.

 

[Jmurcks]

Yeah this really has me stumped... I thought the coop was going to be the hard part!
What if I do wing clipping?
Do you think they would stay in that way?

 

[skovats]

Mine fly over 3 feet so that wont work