Subject: Re: [permaculture] chooks and electric fences
Date: Tue, 6 Jan 2004 14:01:06 +1100
At 10:21 AM +0800 6/1/04, Wordgarden wrote:
>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?
Chooks are pretty well insulated and the standard electric tape
doesn't work so well. You can get an electric mesh that does
work quite well for chooks.
I don't think it'd keep the foxes out though... they'd just jump
over it, wouldn't they? It's really only this time of year that
you'll get chooks taken during the day by a fox... while there
are young foxes about that haven't learnt to be wily yet.
And at night you always have to have your chooks in a fox-proof
house.