nice setup! how do you secure your netting? from taller poles in the center & drape it, or what?
We have a plum tree in our new pen area & I'm thinking of draping netting over the entire tree towards the edges; I think this type would work well.
Yep the tall roosts in the pictures help hold up the netting and we have a birdhouse on a pole that holds up the center of the netting that way we can have a home for little birds inside a peafowl home.
We have a pair tree in our pen. We cut the limbs shorter to make it fit in the pen but now it is already growing through the holes in the netting so it is comming back really well. If you can include the tree without cutting it that would be awesome! We wanted to include a pecan tree in the pen, but it was just too tall to fit, it was too bad because it would make a great roost for the peafowl.
@Andy: Yeah we found out about the cheep netting on ebay from a lady who sold us our first peafowl. There is a peafowl breeder that we love to visit and look at all the cool birds he has (he has all sorts of exotic birds not just peafowl) and one day while we were there all of the birds started making a big ruckus all at once it was very loud. The guy then said, "They see a predator." And all of a sudden a HUGE owl comes flying over all the pens and the guy got his gun and shot at it and scared it off. I know the law says you can't kill them, but I think he doesn't care.
Maybe if you don't shoot them, but shoot near them it might scare them or something but if fireworks doesn't work then I am not sure, those are some tough owls.
We have a plum tree in our new pen area & I'm thinking of draping netting over the entire tree towards the edges; I think this type would work well.
Yep the tall roosts in the pictures help hold up the netting and we have a birdhouse on a pole that holds up the center of the netting that way we can have a home for little birds inside a peafowl home.
We have a pair tree in our pen. We cut the limbs shorter to make it fit in the pen but now it is already growing through the holes in the netting so it is comming back really well. If you can include the tree without cutting it that would be awesome! We wanted to include a pecan tree in the pen, but it was just too tall to fit, it was too bad because it would make a great roost for the peafowl.
@Andy: Yeah we found out about the cheep netting on ebay from a lady who sold us our first peafowl. There is a peafowl breeder that we love to visit and look at all the cool birds he has (he has all sorts of exotic birds not just peafowl) and one day while we were there all of the birds started making a big ruckus all at once it was very loud. The guy then said, "They see a predator." And all of a sudden a HUGE owl comes flying over all the pens and the guy got his gun and shot at it and scared it off. I know the law says you can't kill them, but I think he doesn't care.
