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[ValerieR]

I am planning on fencing off my veg garden to keep it safe from the chickens when they arrive!

 

I was looking at 6ft by 6ft heavy duty trellis panels that can be seen here

 

My brother in law who is erecting it says he thinks the chickens would squeeze through the gaps - they are quite big, right enough! My girls will be ex-batts.

 

It is very very windy where I live and I thought these would be more able to withstand the wind than ordinary solid fence panels.

 

What do you guys think? Would these panels work or not, do you think?

 

Thanks for any replies!

Edited April 8, 2010 by Guest

[chick wiggle]

I cant see the fencing you mean Valerie but trellis would probably be ok, but their necks do stretch a long way so make sure you leave a big enough space from the trellis to your vegs. i just use netting, its cheaper and i can move it around and the girls cant get through it.

[sjp]

they'll certainly try one or two of mine tried to get through a 4 inch wide gap and failed.and I think they can get through a 6inch wide gap but it's more than a foot tall

you could still use it but put a fruit cage type netting over the bottom 18 inches to close of the holes

[ali-s]

I am planning on trellis panels to fence off an area for my Chickens. I'm not sure if the Chickens would be able to squeeze through the gaps but just to make sure they don't I am going to fix some sort of barrier on the bottom part of the panels. I was thinking of fruit netting. It is very windy here too so I don't want anything that will stop the wind causing the panels to be blown down but something the wind will pass through.

 

Those panels look a good price, I will have to show my OH.

[ValerieR]

Thanks for the replies, guys.

I am a wee bit reluctant just to use net as lots of people seem to report that their girls make it over the top! I think trellis panels with net along the bottom sounds good.

They are a good price Ali, and they deliver! Wherabouts in the NE are you? I lived in Aberdeen for a long time and have worked a lot in Inverness Elgin and Peterhead areas. My brother lives beside the sea up there and the wind is so strong sometimes it is incredible!

Val

 

P.S fruit netting is £1 for 6m by 2m in poundland at the moment!

Edited April 7, 2010 by Guest

[Plum]

It doesn't say the size of gaps but you could always run some chicken wire round at their level

 

Mine have no problem getting over the omlet net. They see my husband and just launch themselves towards him in blind excitement

[ali-s]

! Wherabouts in the NE are you? I lived in Aberdeen for a long time and have worked a lot in Inverness Elgin and Peterhead areas. My brother lives beside the sea up there and the wind is so strong sometimes it is incredible!

Val

 

P.S fruit netting is £1 for 6m by 2m in poundland at the moment!

 

I live in a Cottage by a Castle in long ago dried up sea loch between Elgin and the Moray Firth

 

I will have to look in Poundland for the netting.

[ValerieR]

Brodie Castle or Castle Stuart near Forres? Forres is a lovely wee place. Good butchers shop!

[ali-s]

Nope

[docsquid]

My little brown hens got through the trellis in our garden, so we had to block up the lower couple of holes.

[Egluntyne]

I don't think they'd have any difficulty in getting through those gaps. A bit of netting across the bottom few rows would make a difference.

[Christian]

Mine took a running jump and dived (dove)? straight through the trellis I first put up

[ali-s]

I did think about this type of netting.

 

http://www.lidl.co.uk/cps/rde/xchg/lidl_uk/hs.xsl/index_9729.htm

 

the size is 8m x 2m. I would cut it so that it became 16 x 1m.

 

It is more robust than fruit netting and might slow down the full force of the wind making the area pleasanter for the chickens. On the outside of the area I could then put in some plants and they would have a chance to grow without little beaks pecking at them through the trellis.

[ValerieR]

Yes that looks good Ali - I think I'll pop down to Lidl to get some of that when it comes in. I think I'll use that along the base of the trellis.

 

The trellis has been ordered and I'll report back and post pics in due course!

 

Just spoke to a friend who has had 3 of her ex-batts killed in the night by a mink... She lives in the country beside a river and mink are a problem there.

[JS1]

My prettiest (but dimmest) ex-batt dived through the electric fencing - then back again - the other day (it wasn't switched on) and the gap was smaller than your trellis, I'm afraid, although more flexible.

 

Have to say we were dead impressed with her, though

[ValerieR]

My goodness she should join the Red Arrows - precision flying!