Making my fences high enough

[EggSighted4Life]

put a strip of electrified fencing at the top,

E wire at the top of a fence won't do anything for a bird that that isn't grounded.

It's effective for bird that approach on the ground but irrelevant to birds hopping or flying over, in my experience.

I keep increasing my fence height. What I would like to know is this a fool's errands, will my boys and girls just be able to get over the fence regardless of it being 10 feet tall. Thank you for any input you have and have a good dau

You can see we're all protective of our birds and keeping them inside our fences is sometimes the difference between life and death. Your location, bird type, amount of space, predator load, etc.. will help folks make there best suggestions possible.

Feel free to share photos of your flock!

Hope you got some good answers and ideas.

 

[3KillerBs]

Alas, several of my birds are capable of flying over the 48" electric poultry netting. When the permanent coop is built I'll have a roofed run, but I'll probably always have occasional escapees from the netting -- like I did just 10 minutes ago.

Maybe the Blue Australorps will get too heavy to get up that high, but the California White is probably going to be a flyer all her life.

As I develop my flock over the next several years I'll probably select for lack of desire to fly away -- either on purpose or because the flyers get in trouble.

 

[LordEvan5]

E wire at the top of a fence won't do anything for a bird that that isn't grounded.

It's effective for bird that approach on the ground but irrelevant to birds hopping or flying over, in my experience.

You can see we're all protective of our birds and keeping them inside our fences is sometimes the difference between life and death. Your location, bird type, amount of space, predator load, etc.. will help folks make there best suggestions possible.

Feel free to share photos of your flock!

Hope you got some good answers and ideas.

 

[LordEvan5]

Here are some photos of the birds not much of the expanded fence bit one step At a time

 

[Chickenman MAN]

Here are some photos of the birds not much of the expanded fence bit one step At a time

To be honest I'd rmove some of the things close to the fence... there seem to be many places weree the cirls could jump over... especially in that wall area.... put some roosts in the middle not the outside... makes it much harder for them to fly out... my thinking anyway

 

[LordEvan5]

To be honest I'd rmove some of the things close to the fence... there seem to be many places weree the cirls could jump over... especially in that wall area.... put some roosts in the middle not the outside... makes it much harder for them to fly out... my thinking anyway

Thank you for your input I'm thinking of putting up some netting due both to local law that has to have the coup a minimum of 30 feet from the property line and the lack of flat ground. I think your on to something moving the roosts away from the fence though. Cheers

 

[Chicklady707]

My 2 Pearl White Leghorns, 1 Ameraucana and 2 Whiting True Blues were escaping the 6ft high run too by flying over or jumping onto the frame of our gate and then over. They are pullets who were just starting to lay their eggs and were not all using the nesting boxes. To solve the problem, my DH put a netting over so now they stay in when the gate is closed and they are protected from any kind of flying predators (eagles, hawks, owls ). Now we can find their eggs easier if they are not laying in the nesting boxes and I can still let them free range a little in the evening after they lay their eggs . (I still need to cut some of the excess netting along the edges.)

 

[3KillerBs]

Two of my escape artists were out again today. I'm going to have to clip wings on my next day off.