Keeping chicken out of plant bed

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I have a large 60x80 asparagus horseradish bed I would like keep chickens out of in spring during harvest and planting season . I was thinking of putting up a chicken wire but seems like electric netting might be about the same price and could be used other places when not using for keeping chicken out . I just don't know much about what I would need. And what it would cost ?

 

[res]

Cost wise, 24" chicken wire and a 36" garden stake every 10' or so will be WAY cheaper than electric netting. I priced netting this spring, and the cheapest I found was still ~$200 and that didn't include a charger. You would need 2 sets of netting to surround that size garden bed.

We finally got fed up with our flock destroying our landscaping and put up electric fencing. Chicken netting was just too darn expensive for us, and we wanted the fencing to be as "invisible" as possible.

What we ended up with is this:





Cost was extremely low. We used 24" small-diameter rebar for posts, with round post screw-on insulators and push on caps. Wire is cheapest galvanized we could find at TSC. Charger is a 25-mile AC charger. So far, it is working perfect to keep them out, but is super easy to step over when I need to get in the landscape beds (which are MUCH bigger and wider on the sides of the house and along the road...)

 

[distincthead]

I use that black plastic netting of the sort people use to keep deer out of gardens and birds out of blueberries. It's pretty darn cheap, but can be distracting if you're concerned about the aesthetics of the whole garden

 

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I have some of the supplies to build a eletric wire fence probably what I end up doing.

 

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Well I ended up put up 1 strand of eletric fence about 3or 4 inches off the ground seems to be working keeping them . I might need to put a strand up a little higher does not seem to shock there feet or legs but anything higher up sends them running and since they are free range they just go other places .

 

[res]

Well I ended up put up 1 strand of eletric fence about 3or 4 inches off the ground seems to be working keeping them . I might need to put a strand up a little higher does not seem to shock there feet or legs but anything higher up sends them running and since they are free range they just go other places .

I'm glad it is working for you so far. Knock on wood, none of my hens have crossed my fenceline since right after the install. It seems all it took was for one of them to get shocked and her fussing about it must have warned the others to stay away. We are LOVING the fact that all the mulch is staying where it is supposed to, and all my delicate replants are not being dug up!