No fly chickens

[New2COchicks]

Hi
i live in the city and have a 6 foot wooden fence. I can’t have them flying to neighbors yard. Are there chickens who can’t fly?

 

[DobieLover]

Hi
i live in the city and have a 6 foot wooden fence. I can’t have them flying to neighbors yard. Are there chickens who can’t fly?

Not really.
If you get larger body chickens they might not be able to make that jump. If they can, a bilateral wing clip should keep them in.

 

[Dottie the Chicken]

You could clip one of their wings to try to mess up their flying ability.

 

[Peaches Lee]

My Orpingtons are pretty chill, maybe even a bit lazy. Not the most athletic. Mine do not fly over the 4ft fence they are in, and never have, even when they were younger and lighter!

 

[New2COchicks]

My Orpingtons are pretty chill, maybe even a bit lazy. Not the most athletic. Mine do not fly over the 4ft fence they are in, and never have, even when they were younger and lighter!

Thanks

 

[DobieLover]

You could clip one of their wings to try to mess up their flying ability.

That doesn't actually work.
I've done every level of wing clipping in the past. Bilateral works. Sometimes the secondary wing feathers have to go as well as the primaries
The good news is that once the chickens adapt to their confined area, they generally stop trying to get out and can keep their wing feathers after they molt them back in.

 

[New2COchicks]

That doesn't actually work.
I've done every level of wing clipping in the past. Bilateral works. Sometimes the secondary wing feathers have to go as well as the primaries
The good news is that once the chickens adapt to their confined area, they generally stop trying to get out and can keep their wing feathers after they molt them back in.

I hear silkies can barely fly...are there others?

 

[Ridgerunner]

Silkies cannot fly. I'm not aware of any others that cannot fly. Even the big bulky ones (not Cornish X, more Jersey Giant/Brahma) can fly quite well when younger and some older ones will sometimes surprise you.

It's not so much "can" they fly but whether they "want to". They generally don't want to fly somewhere they can't see. With a solid wooden fence it's unlikely they will want to fly over it, but they like to perch. It's quite possible they will fly to the top just because it's fun to perch there. Who knows which side they might hop down on?

If you make the top look like it is not a good place to perch they will not want to fly up there. If you take some mesh wire like chicken wire, hardware cloth, or welded wire and attach it vertically to the top of your fence so it sticks up 6" or a foot, they will not want to fly up there. They can't land. so take a strip of wire 24" thick, attach it to the top of your wooden fence and again about a foot down and the stiffness should cause it to stand. I don't think it looks that bad either.

But then, do you have trees there with limbs good for perching?

 

[New2COchicks]

Yes I do hahaha

 

[rosemarythyme]

Silkies, frizzles, or anything with feathers like that would be your best bet, simply because their feathers aren't designed for flight.