@apryl29
We didn’t the short fence thing last year and it worked for a teensy tiny little time. Then they RAVAGED the entire back yard-garden , grass, weeds, and flowers! It looked like a construction site by the beginning of spring.
This year -with the puppy - I really wanted to have a garden again and reclaim my yard but still allow the girls to free range because their run, although fabulous, is really only a “playpen” for when I’m going to be gone for several hours OR when my son’s herding/high prey instinct dog is visiting.
DH was skeptical but agreed to but me the premier 1 (no shock) hen pen. Which isn’t a pen although it could be, it’s more like a free form fencing. It’s 48 inches tall and SO FAR, knock on wood, they girls have not come over the top.
It IS NOT a predator deterrent AT ALL, nor is is dog proof - it’s merely a containment system for the birds , but I think it’s going to help me a lot!
We have it set up along the back part of the yard from the coop to the fence which gives them their own 95 x 12 feet of space.
So far I’m liking it a lot and feel that it was worth the investment.
sometimes people don't like that I shoot predators so at first I just implied it had been taken care of... I ran it up the tree so I could go inside and get the gun..toting that pistol around hurts my back... but the things you see when you don't have a gun...
well lets just say it made a mistake.
these are ones the teenage hen abandoned at 10 days.. I found her dead a week later.. nothing wrong with her inside or out.. I have lost 6 birds this year.. most were waterbelly or heart.. 2 I am not sure what happened.
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