Re: Fencing to keep hens in

["Farm1"]

<kellyjones1@xxxxxxxxx> wrote in message
> Randy wrote:

> > You will need some kind of fence over the top to keep them in.

> I'm talking about confining them to a yard.  Maybe a thousand or
more
> square feet. A fence over the top is out of the question.  Isn't the
> purpose of wing clipping to keep them from going over a fence?

My hens live in about a quarter acre fenced area with a  fully netted
(sides and top) night house/yard configuration in one corner.  They
are locked into the night house/yard each night or they are dead
(periodic fox incursion).  The acre yard is surrounded by 1" chicken
wire simple fence that is floppy in some parts and from about 4 ft
high to about 5 ft high.  The chooks have never got out and they ahve
also never got out through the fox holes either (but they are
surprisingly small).  I have kept hens here (of mixed and various
breed) for about 15 years.  They've also never seemed to show any
interest in trying to get out.