![]() Clay soils are the hardest to dig, sandy soils are very easy, so use some common sense when burying the netting. The length of wire you bury really depends on the type of soil and how level the ground is. The bottom of a poultry fence, should have the wire buried 8-12 inches in the ground and then turned outwards by about 8. ![]() Badgers are very good diggers and can also rip at chicken netting to tear it. Still, obviously, if you’re keeping chickens elsewhere, such as the US, you may have to scale up the protection or make some modifications to your plans according to your local list.įoxes will dig under a fence if the ground is soft enough. While my experience and advice aim to keep your poultry safe in the UK, most of this applies to other countries. When you first start keeping poultry or move to a new area, it is best to develop a list of potential predators before building a fence because it’s more costly to change a fence afterwards. I have had magpies entering my chicken coops to steal eggs, and during winter, rats can be a problem unless I use rat-proof feeders and traps. ![]() Still, a badger will occasionally visit me and cause a lot of damage to some of my portable detachable runs. In Bedfordshire, many foxes patrolled our fences, and now in Herefordshire, strangely, I hardly see a fox (probably because there are very few rabbits and pheasants?). Our friends down the road had a stream running along the edge of their garden and had to trap mink that would come during the winter and take their ducks. In Wales, we had buzzards taking chickens from open spaces, and I lost several bantams to hawks.
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