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I want to fence off our garden and part of the yard from the chickens. I have been told that chickens will not generally try to fly over a fence they can see though. Based on my goat yard which has a 4' fence this is true. The chickens go under the fence but not over. They do however roost on it at night.
I want this to be reasonably attractive and am thinking of a 4' vinyl fence. If need be it would be easy to add an electric wire.
Any opinions on whether or not this will work?
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I have a 4 ft field fence around my garden and the chickens do go in there regularly....
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Chickens (and small dogs) will fit through field fencing so if you are using that a couple feet of chicken wire near the bottom will keep most of them out.
If there is any sort of bar across the top of the fence or if the fence is solid the chickens will fly to the top of the fence. A 4' vinyl fence is solid isn't it? I'd think they'd just fly to the top of it and then over into the garden. If there was a wire at the top so they couldn't land on the top that might keep them from trying to land on the top.
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We used to clip one wing of a chicken if we didn't want it flying about and out of the yard. May sound mean but the fenced chicken yard was more to protect the birds from dogs than to just keep them in. You simply clip some of the long feathers on one wing - it puts their lift off balance and they can't maintain flight.
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