corriemartin
Songster
My chickens are 18 weeks old, and it has become obvious (due to losses to predators) that they need to be kept inside an electric net fence during the day. My question is: How do you train them to do that? They fly over (or to the top of) the current 6 foot fence, which led me to leaving the gate to the yard open since they were flying out anyway. But their new housing is going to be in a moveable tractor with an electronet fence yard around it. Is it too late to train them to stay in that? And if it's not too late, how do I do that? I'm hoping to move them into their new digs today, but am planning to keep them inside the tractor for a week or more so that they learn that this is now home (instead of their current coop), but I need to figure the electronet thing out. Will I need to clip their wings? Any help would be really appreciated!