Buying Your Electric Poultry Netting Kit
Practical Poultry|November - December 2019
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Buying Your Electric Poultry Netting Kit

In the world of electric fencing, the solution is a straightforward one – use an electric poultry netting kit! But, what are the questions you need to ask to get the right kit for you and your hens?

Meriel Younger from www.electricfencing.co.uk has firsthand experience of setting up and using electric poultry netting for her hens. Here is her 8 step guide along with some comments and experiences.

Meriel says - Being a spur of the moment kind of person planning doesn’t come naturally to me. However, to ensure my hens were safe I was out with the measuring tape, pacing up and down to make sure I had planned their new pen to the nth degree! So, what did I need to think about to get the perfect pen for my lovely feathered friends and to ensure their safety? These are the steps that I went through:

1) What power was I going to use?

The power options are mains, battery or solar. I knew I was going to use mains power as it was not far from the pen. But when you plug your energizer into the mains you need to transfer the power then to the fence. So how much lead out the cable was I going to need? I needed a short length of 25m and crocodile clips to connect to the netting. Enough to get from the energizer to the start of the fence and from the energizer to the earth stake. Comment: Lead out cable is not required with battery or solar energizers as they sit right next to the fence. Some solar energizers have low outputs and netting requires a good strong energizer – so it may be worth getting a battery energizer and adding a solar panel instead of getting a solar energizer.

2) On/Off Switch?

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