Chicken fence

[jerry]

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?

Jerry
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