The Electric Fence



Not My Ladies (picture from the Internet)

A while back I purchased electric poultry netting via CraigsList to corral up the chickens and keep the poop off the deck and sidewalks...and save the new plantings in the flowerbeds.  It took me a month or two to settle on a solar electric charger...of course I opted for the biggest I could find.  It took five days to charge up the equipment and about 2 hours (learning curve) to set up the netting...and I immediately realized I needed more netting...my girls have about 10 acres they peruse every day and I did not want to take that freedom from them...they don't need a full 10 acres, but I feel I at least owe then one.  I checked CraigsList and found a gal wanting to sell another 4 rolls @ 160 feet.  I go pick that up later today.  In the meantime I've had to wrangle my girls and coop them...they do not like it and the main *Man* Rooster is having a fit!  The girls had picked 3 separate places to lay eggs and avoided the coop (a feral mother cat and two kittens had taken up residence).  I shooed the cat and kittens out to the big barn (with the pigs) and locked up the hens for 72 hours in the coop.  Tomorrow a.m. they will have their somewhat limited freedom back...and Mr Main Man Rooster will have his ladies back...the two Big Boy Roosters (my hatchlings all grown up) will not have the pleasure...they both are heading to the ranch on the other side of this one...they are just too noisy and the foreman wants some new genetics for his girls. Tomorrow will be busy and HOT (78 degrees!).