http://www.premier1supplies.com/fencing.php?mode=detail&fence_id=96 Can anyone give me a good way to use this to cover a small duck pen that is made out of kennel panels? The difficult part is that the panels are set on ground that makes the top slightly uneven. Just by a tiny bit though. I wanted to figure out a way to use it part way up the sides and then to cover the top. I am figuring that predators would not be getting in if we do that. But I am also wondering what will happen if the duck stick their heads through and get zapped. I don't have ducklings, so that is not an issue, but I don't want any of my ducks harmed by the shock and or scared of the pen. And I have the added problem of the panel that has the door in it. How do I deal with that. If anyone has any suggestions, it would be really appreciated by me and my husband (who has to do all the work and is getting frustrated by my daily ideas!!!
In order to cover the run, you will have to insulate it from the kennel panels. I would probably bolt some 2x4's up there and stretch the netting tight enough so it won't sag and touch the panels. For the ground, I'd get step-in plastic electric fence posts and set the net out just a bit from the kennel panels. Just far enough so the ducks can't reach it. (a fence around your coop) I've got kennel panels for my runs and I've topped them with horse (livestock) panels. Unless you've got small climbing predators, like weasels, that will keep everybody out of the run and be easier than using electric fencing on top. The horse panels are 5 ft tall, so my runs are 5 feet wide and the panels are just fastened on with bailing wire. Horse panels have a 2X4 square.
Minks are the reason we have to do this. That is why I can't use another kennel panel for the top, the holes are too large in those too. As far as just surrounding the pen, that won't work because of the gate. And because the pen sits inside the area where my goats are kept. Thanks though. I appreciate the input.
How about hardware cloth? Minks can't get through that (the small 1/4" square stuff) I had a mink take out my entire flock a couple years ago, even though they were indoors in dog pens. The mink still got them. Now I use a dog flight kennel and put them inside it at night (also indoors).
