General Information
- Brand
- Aleko, multiple
- Manufacturer
- Aleko, multiple
- Model
- Multi Purpose Safety Snow Fence 4 x 100 Feet Orange
- Product Price
- 29.99
My ducks have a large fenced in area around the house where they will keep the grass short, eat pesky bugs and fertilize the plants. But sometimes i want them to work on a different spot, like for example my potato patch. And i don't like when they eat my peppermint plants, dig out the tomatoes and peppers and trample my rhubarb!
The fence doesn't need to be like a transportable prison, my ducks are very obedient, they could easily flap over all my fences, as they are just 2 feet tall, but they understood that i want them to be inside of the fence and they stay there. And no need for the fence to keep predators out as the ducks are only be in those temporary areas when i am around and they are all locked up on their duck-platform over night.
I calculated that i would need about 60 meters (~200 foot) of a lightweight, easy to move fence and searched for months on several farm-store web-sites. Everything i found was too complex, too heavy and mostly way too expensive, but then i stumbled over those orange "snow fences" made out of cheap plastic, four feet tall and 100 feet long for just $30.
At first i set up the fence with its full height, using bamboo sticks and pressed my ducks into forced labor on the freshly tilled potato patch:
You can see the orange fence in the background. It was very windy on the next day and the bamboo sticks snapped, so i decided to cut the fence lenght-wise and create two pieces of 100x2 feet. The lower fence has a lower wind resistance and i have twice the length of fence. - In the end i cut it in three pieces, one short piece to protect the plants around the patio:
And two long pieces that i used to fence in a large piece of fresh pasture for my duckies to enjoy:
The plastic is attached with zip-ties at the top to the short (3') bamboo sticks:
The cut side is on the ground and looks like this:
I am using this really cheap stuff now since two weeks, we had wind-storms during that time, rain, sun and frost. I have moved the fence three times and it is still in one piece. The total cost for me was just the ~30$ as i already had the bamboo sticks and the zip-ties. - Add another $10 for those and you have a nice solution for temporary fencing for just $40.
Edit 2019-04-28: The temporary fence needed some improvement, my three Runner girls figured out how to slide through under the fence and roam free on the rest of my property. Came back from down at the mailbox and found three ducks on my driveway. As an easy fix i laid a brick on the bottom of each fence section.
The fence doesn't need to be like a transportable prison, my ducks are very obedient, they could easily flap over all my fences, as they are just 2 feet tall, but they understood that i want them to be inside of the fence and they stay there. And no need for the fence to keep predators out as the ducks are only be in those temporary areas when i am around and they are all locked up on their duck-platform over night.
I calculated that i would need about 60 meters (~200 foot) of a lightweight, easy to move fence and searched for months on several farm-store web-sites. Everything i found was too complex, too heavy and mostly way too expensive, but then i stumbled over those orange "snow fences" made out of cheap plastic, four feet tall and 100 feet long for just $30.
At first i set up the fence with its full height, using bamboo sticks and pressed my ducks into forced labor on the freshly tilled potato patch:
And two long pieces that i used to fence in a large piece of fresh pasture for my duckies to enjoy:
The plastic is attached with zip-ties at the top to the short (3') bamboo sticks:
The cut side is on the ground and looks like this:
I am using this really cheap stuff now since two weeks, we had wind-storms during that time, rain, sun and frost. I have moved the fence three times and it is still in one piece. The total cost for me was just the ~30$ as i already had the bamboo sticks and the zip-ties. - Add another $10 for those and you have a nice solution for temporary fencing for just $40.
Edit 2019-04-28: The temporary fence needed some improvement, my three Runner girls figured out how to slide through under the fence and roam free on the rest of my property. Came back from down at the mailbox and found three ducks on my driveway. As an easy fix i laid a brick on the bottom of each fence section.
