post your chicken coop pictures here!

[bigmrg74]

I don't get why this electric fence thing has gotten people so riled...I was just trying to share something that worked for me and I thought it made a pretty good story and might help folks keep from losing chickens. I have gotten more backlash from people after I went to a lot of trouble to post it. I should just delete the entire thing...

We have horses here and testing the fence has usually involved getting zapped to prove that the sucker works. That sucker smarts!!

 

[srm7731]

I Love all the different ideas!

 

[ChickenButtReno]

Work in progress. 8x8 footprint. Next to add the run.

 

[MeepBeep]

Check the electrical codes in your area for the depth of the ground rods for housing. Our area requires 10' in undisturbed earth. They are copper rods and arent that expensive and are easy to drive unless you have really rocky soil.

In addition to that, please check the legality of electrified fences to avoid hassles and liability... The laws on electric fencing vary all over the place, it's quite common and mostly unregulated in many rural areas, but the same can't always be said for many urban areas that prohibit it's use...

Around me almost all the communities (incorporated areas) prohibit electrified fences on residential zoned property, and have rules for it's use on agricultural zoned lots...

I can't say if the local laws around me are strictly enforced or not, but just the same it is outlawed in most of the communities around me...

I don't personally use it, but since I'm lucky enough to live in a small unincorporated lot I could if I wanted to, while if I lived a few hundred feet South (literally across the street) it would be illegal for me to use...

 

[gpeters3]

I don't get why this electric fence thing has gotten people so riled...I was just trying to share something that worked for me and I thought it made a pretty good story and might help folks keep from losing chickens.  I huave gotten more backlash from people after I went to a lot of trouble to post it. I should just delete the entire thing...

It is not about being riled, most of us country folks have lots of stories to tell about electric fences and found the discussion fun. Your info was new to some of us so questions came out. I have stories i cant relate in this forum and im sure many others do too. Dont get hurt, enjoy the discussion we all appreciate new info and many also like to kidd around. It's called socializing I've learned a lot from this forum and i was raised around a farm. Your info on a new kind of fence was new to me and i enjoyed it.

 

[perchie.girl]

My coop under construction

love the woods style.... it would be the only stick built Coop I would have here in the desert....

deb

 

[perchie.girl]

I don't know, I haven't read anything that seemed negative or derogatory... There have been questions... Most folks (including myself) haven't heard of an electric fence that didn't require insulators or ground rods and the like... It's all good.

Actually, kinda glad you introduced something I hadn't heard of...

Me too But I wanna see it work. I only have one frame of reference and its 50 years of horse containment.....

deb

 

[perchie.girl]

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Or reaching out to pat your favorite steed only to get ZAPPED in the Armpit and consequentially zapping your horse at the same time where upon she snorts tosses her hea dand trotts off in disgust....

deb

 

[perchie.girl]

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Thats interesting I have used it in the back yard to retrain an escape dog..... She hit that once and I could her her yelp from the other side of the house... she tested it in another area.... that did it. I never had to switch it on again. yep the city.

deb

 

[gpeters3]

Isn't that something? There is a $10000 fine for shooting feral cats in Michigan. Most cat owners believe cats have to have some freedom (to run the neighborhood and get into trash and scratch up cars) and dog owners think its normal for chained up dogs to bark all night and cats and dogs are legal virtually everywhere but electic fences are too dangerous to allow in residential areas and chickens are livestock, not pets even if they are kept out of sight and make very little noise (assuming you dont have roosters)

According to the bible, the first city in human history was built by one of God's enemies. I'm thinking there was a reason for that.....(Sorry, i'm stuck in a residential neighborhood that used to be very rural but i'm still a country boy)