4m x 3m Omlet pen, cube, new auto door still boxed and coop light

[Alma]

Hi Everyone,

 

I'm thinking of investing in some Omlet netting.

 

It seems expensive but seems also to come highly recommended.

 

I will just want to use it at the weekends when my girls freerange, not on a permanent basis.

 

I wonder, can anyone tell me - is it easy enough to use as and when needed or does it take so long to put up that it's best used on a permanent basis?

 

Can you imagine unrolling it and setting it up just for a couple of hours or is it too much for that?

 

Appreciate any advice on this one please.

 

Alma

[Jules.]

I have recently set mine up so the chooks can't get onto the patio. I only have 10m of it, as that's all I neded, so I bought 25m as it doesn't come in any shorter lengths & sold what I didn't need.

It is easier to manage if its cut into shorter lengths!

And easy to spike into the ground.

It will do the job you want it to!

[chelsea]

its very easy to put up and take down and has come in very handy here.

 

At the moment its guarding our new turf.

[The Dogmother]

It's easy peasy to use

 

I'd caution agaist cutting it if possible - anyone i know who has done that has immediately regretted it, having said that though it looks like it worked for Jules.

[Jules.]

Cutting it worked fine for me, as I only use it to fence off across the garden width-ways

 

Alma I'm sorry I didn't get the netting out to show you at my hen party

 

You are more than welcome to come around to view it if you would like to?

[Alma]

Awwww, thanks Jules. Thanks everyone for your advice.

 

I've decided to go ahead and buy.

 

It's got to be better than the cheap netting I bought from B & Q, pushed through garden canes.

 

My OH says he feels as if he's living in a fishing port at the moment. I've got bits strung up everywhere.

 

Alma

[Jules.]

I tried first of all with green plastic netting from Wilkinsons & garden canes

[Olly]

I don't regret cutting mine, it was just too unwieldy for one person to move every time. Now it's in shorter lengths I get much more use out of it - but it does, of course, reduce the useable length as it's hard to make two ends join up securely, and you will probably want a few extra poles.

[Phoebe]

I think its brilliant and stick it up at weekends; it takes about 10 minutes. I can see it getting harder as the summer comes and the ground hardens though - the stakes do have sharp ends but they were markedly more difficult to ram in the ground this weekend than thet have been

[cockadoodle1]

I used pond netting and sunk tubing into the ground like a washing line holder only thinner and canes just drop into this. At the roll end i used a length of down pipe and cut two hole in timber which i screwed to side of shed and threaded pipe into it ,fixed netting to down pipe and it now rolls up neatly out of the way when not in use. Hope this is of some use