![]() ![]() The option of using an electric fence is fine but you still need to have a good fence to start with especially for poultry because they need to be kept in as well as dogs kept out. In the past, I have used some plastic mesh out the front to keep my poultry from coming up the hill but naturally it wasn’t dog proof and lately the hens started working out how to push under it themselves. Plus, I wanted to get this right and build it from scratch not patch an existing fence up and I needed to have full confidence this fence would do the job.Īlso I don’t want my chickens roaming all over my property either, so I still needed a front fence to keep them away from other areas and the best option was to build a new perimeter fence line to make a safe free-range paddock for my hens to use. Why not just fix my boundary fence? Well, it adjoins neighbouring properties and there are several complications that I won’t go into which inhibits making my boundary fence dog proof. This gives my hens and ducks almost a whole acre of land to free-range every day.įor years, we have had to put up with wild dogs, and neighbours dogs pushing through our boundary fence line and attacking our chickens and ducks and although I have a dog proof pen for my hens the problem has been protecting my birds when they are left out to free-range – until now. The fence is almost exactly 200 metres in perimeter, has 57 x 2.4 metre 100 x 75 mil posts, a rubble rock trench base to make it very difficult for dogs to dig under, 142 cm high x 2.5 mil thick heavy duty galvanised dog mesh, with a 2.6 metre wide x 1.5 metre high welded alloy farm gate. ![]() I could have paid several thousand dollars to have a fencing contractor come and do this job but I did it myself for a fraction of the cost that they would have charged me and at the same time I learnt a lot along the way… My DIY dog proof fence for my free-range chicken area is about 6 weeks old now and I am extremely happy with how it turned out.
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