Do you use electric netting to graze chickens? Any tips or suggestions on styles or brands?
I have various forest garden patches at home and plan to rotate chickens in between them. I may come back with questions on grazing plans, as some areas I'd want to rotate and let the pasture reset, whereas other areas I'd want the chickens to wipe out the lawn and prep it for meadow seed mixes. In any case, I want to have a few paddocks setup at once and move the fencing around.
This is for a small, home-scale flock rotating around 0.5-1ac total, depending how many paddocks we setup. Electricity is not far but still the fence probably needs to be run on a battery (we could charge one inside and swap it out as needed, and/or hook it up to solar). Just looking for an easy to use and reliable fence - we have lots of foxes, tall grass, and somewhat rolling landscape.
Thanks for any input!
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