Market Farming

[Allan Balliett <igg AT igg.com>]

Michaele -

When we use the netting, it's not to keep the birds in, it's to keep 
the predators OUT! Birds have at least one clipped wing. My coments 
have not had a propensity for escaping from the netting. I understand 
that the birds are even more adapted to the netting if they are 
introduced to it as peeps. At PASA Saturday, Kerry Sullivan said that 
he puts the peeps in the netting hen they are very young; they 
actually run through the netting during the day, but stay inside at 
night.

We do run our net at 7,000.

-Allan Balliett
Claymont Farm

> ----- Original Message -----
> From: Allan Balliett <igg AT igg.com>
> To: market farming <market-farming AT franklin.oit.unc.edu>
> Sent: Sunday, February 06, 2000 9:25 AM
> Subject: Re: electric net fencing
>
>
> >  Premier Fencing sells this. They have a website, but I don't have the
> >  URL. Probably most of the 'professional' NZ-oriented fencing
> >  companies are using it now.
> >
> >  We use it here (for the chickens) and swear by it.
> >
> >  -Allan Balliett
> >  Claymont Farm
>
> We use it also, but it took us a year to figure the voltage needed to be
> high enough to shock the chickens through their feathers. (feathers make
> great insulation).  I tried all sorts of silly ideas and wasteful  time
> trying to keep those birds in.  Once you get the technique down it's a
> simple matter to move it around.
> Check a farm supply store, if they don't have it they probably know about it
> and could get it for you.
> Michaele
> Growing Things
> Carnation Wa
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