MercianPhoenix Posted May 18, 2013 Share Posted May 18, 2013 Is it any good?? We've weighed up prices and reckon (as my step-daughter gets a staff discount where she works) that the netting will be the cheaper-and easier fencing option to install. I'd just like to hear honest opinions before we purchase.The size we are looking at is 24m with a gate. The girls can only go out in the garden when I'm watching them ,which is a limited time each day and I want them to have a bit more freedom when I'm at work. Thank you ! Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Olly Posted May 18, 2013 Share Posted May 18, 2013 It needs to be set up properly - so the netting is tight between the posts - otherwise they'll sneak underneath, and do bear in mind that it'll keep chickens in (or out) but it isn't predator proof. Apart from that, I think it's excellent and does the job. I've had mine for about six years, it's been fox-chewed in a couple of places (but I've fixed it with some twine) and it has kept them off the veg patch. I have just bought some wooden fencing to replace it, but am still using netting for part of the veg-patch protection as it doesn't show up from a distance. A tip - I cut mine into shorter lengths, as it was too unwieldy for me to manage the whole thing. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
mimi5 Posted May 18, 2013 Share Posted May 18, 2013 Well I don't have the netting but I am sure it's good stuff like all the omlet products But it's not fox proof Also it's not always chicken proof either!! (lots of stories on here of chickens going under and over!!) My girls are in a cube and clasic, both with runs and only free range when I'm around with them in the garden on my days off .......better safe than sorry! Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
LolaLayla Posted May 18, 2013 Share Posted May 18, 2013 I have had mine for a couple of years and love it. The girls have got under it at times but that was because I did not have it taut enough. I move my eglu round the garden quite a bit and the netting is wonderful for that. In my experience you start off thinking the coop will go in one place and then before long you have a new plan . The colour is good too and is not too obtrusive. OH bought some cheaper netting for another part of the garden and it is a really vibrant green colour and obvious Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Ain't Nobody Here Posted May 18, 2013 Share Posted May 18, 2013 I love my Omlet netting . I have some of the older stuff and some of the new, higher style. If you keep it taut at the top and use tent pegs to secure the bottom, you shouldn't have any escapees. You also need to make sure they don't find a launch pad and fly over it. I rigged up some flimsy fruit netting above the Omlet netting in one place to prevent them flying off the water butt over it. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
jasperaliceuk Posted May 18, 2013 Share Posted May 18, 2013 This is mine - good product but not fox proof! It now has to be doubled up so I only have half of it. Omlet do a repair kit, but looking at the catalogue picture, it looks as if you only get a couple of feet of twine for your money. I would need a whole reel! As everyone says it needs to be taut and preferable pegged down as they can go under and when its full of holes like mine there is always one of them who will lead the escape committee and remember where it is! I certainly wouldn't go out and leave them in it. That's a good idea, cutting it into shorter lengths as it can be quite unwieldy to move around and the poles get tangled so I now just tension it against the pole rather than threading through the netting - seems to work just as well. So, that's my pennyworth - as a boundary it works and it keeps them away from bits of the garden recuperating from their weeding (trashing!). I also have a long length of 2' high wire garden fencing which seems to do a good job of keeping them coralled. They don't have a desire to fly over at all (yet!), Sue Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Deb Dav Posted May 18, 2013 Share Posted May 18, 2013 We have had the omlet netting now for over 7 years and its a godsend. Yes the girls do go under it, if its not taut or pegged down and I have a girl fly over it. But the majority of the time the girls stay put. The only damage is when I have got too close to it with the mower but repaired it with tywraps. We haven't got a gate so I have to straddle over it, early in the morning in my pjs. Must be a sight for the neighbours (serves them right for looking). So I would recommend it. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
mcfee2 Posted May 19, 2013 Share Posted May 19, 2013 We haven't got a gate so I have to straddle over it, early in the morning in my pjs. Must be a sight for the neighbours (serves them right for looking). Brilliant. I wonder what my neighbours must think of me talking to mine in my jamas in the morning, but that's the way to look at it We have the netting too and I love it for being so easy and subtle. Dandelion however, despite clipped wing, uses the cube run door as a step up and loves to then stand on the top of the run. She has managed to launch herself from there over the netting a couple of times, so I'm going to have to move mine out a bit again! Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
PoachedPlease Posted June 6, 2013 Share Posted June 6, 2013 I have the 21m length and it has been the best thing ever. As soon as I'm in the house I let them out in the netted area and leAve them to it.. No more eaten blueberries and poop all over the patio. There are plenty of pegs so they can't get under, but once when I scared them, two of them flew over the top. I never knew they could, but they haven't done it since. Good to know if foxy does get in, they can get out even quicker than him! Btw I now know chickens are terrified of towels on a washing line. The first day of sun and I wondered why they went nuts. My maran nearly throttled herself trying to get out through the holes in the netting..sigh Xx Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
