permaculture

[Claude William Genest <genest@pivot.net>]

Not sure about electric fences per se, but generally :
- heavier breeds ( as opposed to bantams) are more sedentary
- if the eating is good, they are in no hurry to look elsewhere
-they need and will look for shade and somewhere to perch
- consider predators from above ( hawks eagles)

I guess you could stack the last three by providing a 
shady-perch-protection unit of some kind....

Let me know how it goes, my chicken tractoring has not been all that 
successful and this may be a better alternative.

Claude

On Monday, January 5, 2004, at 09:21 PM, Wordgarden wrote:

> Hi all,
>
> Has anyone had any experience with (or got any opinions about) keeping
> chooks enclosed with electric fence tape (that white stuff that is 
> used for
> strip grazing cattle). Seems to be a good way to rig up temporary 
> movable
> runs, keeping the chooks in and the foxes out...or is that just wishful
> thinking?
>
> cheers,
> Robert
>
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