re: Deer Netting for Overhead in Run - how to avoid accidents

[AK Michelle]

Mrs. AK-Bird-Brain :

I use recycled gill-nets over my runs... no worries yet.

Where can I get some?​

 

[horsejody]

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Does 'scare tape' scare chickens out of the garden?

If it's like our house, nothing scares chickens out of the garden, not even screaming humans with flailing arms.

 

[Mrs MIA]

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Where can I get some?

At the Soldotna landfill, they have a recycle bin for old netting. You might have one up in Palmer/Wasilla... ?

 

[wegotchickens]

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Does 'scare tape' scare chickens out of the garden?

If it's like our house, nothing scares chickens out of the garden, not even screaming humans with flailing arms.

Gotcha. I am hating the bird netting Dh put around my garden beds. Spend too much time untangling myself, my tools, my plants. Ever tried to pick fresh asparagus that had grown up through a square of netting?

<sigh> Guess I'll have to keep it in place for a while though.

I have a couple of hawks that keep doing passes over my chickers when they free range. But so far the girls have stayed right in the treeline and TN has done a good job of alerting the girls so they can freeze.

 

[maine chicks]

Only thing I caught in my net is the hawk that killed my chicken. Yes, I let it go, but not without some unkind words.

 

[jjthink]

Spent a considerable amount of time rescuing a robin and a squirrel from inside the run addition today, both in a terrific panic, poor babies. Turns out the quick and dirty addition is still taking considerable time - thought I would get the overhead deer netting sections woven together by now but mostly just got to readjusting the wire twist ties, as things began to sag. I wish it weren't so ugly - will try to pretty it up - as you can see from pics below, the neighbor behind me is soooo close - that's his truck and outbuilding in the pic - and he's NOT the wicked soul who is flooding me out with the bad development - that bad dude would be to the right of the photo.
JJ.


This was the run before the hasty addition was added - my 2 birds get bored senseless in here in 2 minutes flat - I guess I need to supply a chess and backgammon set, and cable with Animal Planet station on, but at least this run wasn't too obnoxious as far as the good neighbors are concerned:

Here's Ellie, and the addition in the foreground, original run in background. Birds are locked up tight at night so this does not need to deter raccoons and other such determined nocturnal beings. Hopefully it will deter the irresponsible neighbors dogs (the only pred besides hawks) as I'm staking it down in tons of places as well as laying heavy rock over the wire at bottom. Deer netting is on top of the run addition. Can't see in pic but that neighbor with the truck can so I am trying to be as aesthetic as possible. Hope to get lots of plants to go outside and in so the run addition doesn't stick out like a sore thumb and so BJ and Ellie have an interesting area when they do have to be confined. There are a few small trees and shrubs in their run and run addition.

 

[AnOldGuy]

Zig zag blinking blinking Christmas lights on top of the run. It goes well with flamingos and with white tire planters.

 

[SpottedCrow]

Looks like it will do fine Judy. I had to run netting over the top of the fence because Obelisk was getting out and eating the neighbour's grass seeds. I used volley ball net replacement net. I only had one bird trapped in it in the 4 whole years I had it up. He had gotten tangled trying to escape from another robin or the redtail.

I LOVE pink flamingos...LOL They make pink flamingo whirligigs too...

 

[jjthink]

So far everybody is getting trapped INSIDE! This happens when the door is open during the times when BJ and Ellie are allowed out of the run - I've had dozens of birds and one squirrel stuck and in a panic already and it's been less than a week. Spending a lot of time trying to get them out before they stroke out. Hopefully the resident birds and squirrels will come to understand where the door is....
Maybe they would steer away from pink flamingos!
JJ

 

[horsejody]

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I have had small birds get in the coop when the door was left open. If I tried to help them out, they panicked. I found that, if I left them alone, they always eventually figured it out themselves.