Market Farming

[Janet Bachmann <janetb AT ncat.org>]

Re:  day ranging, chicken tractors, etc.
The system that sounded great to me was presented at the Small Farm 
Today annual conference and trade show a few years ago by Katie T(???) 
from England.  She used electric fence like Electronet,  to keep 
chickens in and predators out of the pasture.  Housing, I believe, was 
permanent, but the range was large.  She said trees in the pasture gave 
the chickens a save place to hide if hawks were overhead.  I wondered 
what kept the chickens from flying over the fence.  

As for clipping wings, you don't actually clip the wings, just the wing 
tip feathers.  I was told to clip them on one wing only, then the flight 
attempts were off balance.