Fontaine
Songster
The battle goes on. My previous post of pictures for overhead fish lineKept the hawks from “diving “into my run. I didn’t take into account that hawks could sit on trees outside the run. Observe the birds, then fly down to the surrounding fence and just hop into the run.Back to the hardware store for more heavy duty fishing line. We are now connecting the fishing line, tying it at the fence, pulling it up through the trees to meet the previously installed fishing lines. Once we’ve surrounded the area with lines tied to the fence will drape additional mesh over that.We haven’t figured out what to do once we get to the gate but we’ll think of something. This, of course has been hours of tedious work, which could be on done the first time, a bobcat leaps into the chicken yard. we’re hoping he may sniff the electric fence first, but realize he may just take a leap. After the netting is secured, we will look into a tip previously mentioned about running an electrical tape around the top of the fence. if it would be helpful, I could take a picture of our new plan. Once everything secure, I would like to order more checks, but the hatcheries are sold out. It seems like forever of the ones I wanted. this seems like an incredible amount of work for six chickens of which three only lay periodically! But they’re my wonderful pets and my responsibility to keep safe. So sorry to hear about your loss.I’m not sure if you can tie to your type of fencing or not but thought I might add this, just in case