PolloGal
Songster
I have a 5’ by 5’ (3’ tall) pen that we raised up onto a 2’ platform and placed inside our (4’ high) fenced (small) yard that our dog shares. We built it from PVC and have hardware cloth secured all around the pen and a tarp on top to keep it dry. The floor is linoleum on wood. It works great as a day pen for little ones growing or in a brooder to just stretch and run around a bit…offering a nice break for them. I want to be able to use this pen at night for about 2 weeks (for two 5 week old turkey poults) while doing some work to our brooders and finishing the permanent pen for them, but I don’t feel it’s safe enough for nightime use. Is there a plug-in electric net I can throw over it just at night (not sure there is such a thing that wouldn’t run electric through the pen too), or an easy way to throw some type of a predator proof net over the entire pen for the night and be able to lift it during the day, or something I can do around the pen to protect them at night or if we leave the farm during the day? Hoping someone may have an idea for me…otherwise I will be putting them out there during the day and back into the brooder at night…(which is a pain, but not taking any chances). Thanks for the ideas!