Omlet cube and run

[Aunty e]

We want to fence off a chunk of the garden for the chickens - there's so much of it we'd like to keep a bit for ourselves and Mog, that isn't full of chicken poop. We'll still be locking them up at night, and I don't really fancy a walk in run, so I was thinking along the lines of picket fencing... Does anyone have anything like this? Essentially we propose to take an L shaped chunk out, the whole way down one side with a healthy corner including our shed.

[Patricia W]

We have Omlet netting which is electrified. Works well.

 

Tricia

[Deb Dav]

We have Omlet netting which is electrified. Works well.

 

Tricia

 

As our garden is quite big - we have Omlet netting as well not electrified though. The girls have at good size run and when we need to, we relocate the cube and netting to another part of the garden to let that part recover. We winter them under a huge blue cedar and plenty of shrubs for them to sit under for cover.

 

It's not so much as a walk in run but a Step Over The Netting Run......SOTNR

 

Our veggie patch is fenced off from the rest of the garden, especially for when the girls are FR but they are allowed in there when it needs clearing.

[abwsco]

Mine have a sectioned off area with picket fencing. I know there's some photo's of it on here. I can find them later on for you if you can't.

[Jools]

My bantams are behind a 4ft picket fence in their part of the garden (spring to autumn anyway) as I wanted my garden to look like a garden. In winter I move them onto a woodchippped area of the garden and use unelectrified Omlet netting, which also works a treat.

[Aunty e]

Mine have a sectioned off area with picket fencing. I know there's some photo's of it on here. I can find them later on for you if you can't.

 

Thanks, found your photos and that's exactly the sort of thing I was thinking of. All my girls are pretty earthbound, so we'll probably try it with just the picket for now and see how it goes.

[abwsco]

Mine have a sectioned off area with picket fencing. I know there's some photo's of it on here. I can find them later on for you if you can't.

 

Thanks, found your photos and that's exactly the sort of thing I was thinking of. All my girls are pretty earthbound, so we'll probably try it with just the picket for now and see how it goes.

 

Glad you found them:) I was at work and shouldn't have been on hence I couldn't find them for you -lol

[Lavenders_Blue]

I also have a step-over-the-netting run

 

Knowles netting and some metal stakes that I gathered after some builders abandoned them following some local roadworks. The girls stay in this run all day and (so far!) have never escaped over the top. There was a short phase where they worked out they could push underneath but that was soon sorted with a bag of tent pegs from the local camping shop

 

They have a run attached to their coop which I shut them into at night meaning I can leave their pop hole open. It doesn't take long for them to be shouting to be let into their SOTN run of a morning!