Poultry Netting , Predator Proofing Your Chicken Yard

How to install a poultry net to protect your chickens from flying predators like hawks and owls. Very cheap and effective!

[kristivaughan]

I did that to mine this week and I feel SO much better about knowing they are better protected.

[skpchick]

Same story here! I got that netting at Walmart online - split one and did a 75 x 75 square feet yard. I think it's gone up in price but sometimes it goes on sale. It's great stuff - a heavy nylon, 2x2 squares knotted. Extremely durable and surprisingly easy to install, unlike the cheap plastic netting. I haven't lost any birds in 18 months.

[stillquestioning...]

As soon as we watched this video we were on another page ordering the poultry netting. Thank you for the tour! :)

[MrGoosePit]

Great idea. There's a pheasant propagation area run by our state's DNR that uses a system like this. Work very well. Holds up to Northern IL weather, except maybe when we get some ice storms, but I don't think that will be a problem for you too much. Thanks for posting a new video. I really enjoy them! -Kevin

[homesteadhousewife]

So glad I found this channel! We just got our first baby chicks-6 of them. Live north of Houston but I’m from Lafayette...so I for sure new you were from south Louisiana about halfway through watching this video!! Need to find more homesteading how to’s for southern climate. 😄

[kcender]

I just lost my last hen to a hawk and will be doing this, so thanks! My run has trees as well and I can see by yours that it would be easy to walk underneath it with a leaf blower and remove any leaves. Good editing on the video, not too long; just right.

[stevencrager]

Awesome eyes young lady, and that accent is tops, you are just a 12 out of 10, and thank you for every video you do. You are one smart person who has it ALL together. Thank You again!!!

[nonaubiz]

My German Shepherd helps me round up the other critters all the time. He gets along great with our 3 cats, 24 chickens, and 6 ducks.

[sharonwalia]

Survival HT. Great job! Working in the rain, too. You are one lucky girl with guys to help you and a rooster who is good to the younger ones. Love your set up. I had to move mine to the country. My daughter lives out there. I live in a suburb and we used to be able to keep six. Now none. I just had three and they were were in an area like 60 by 100 ft with aluminum covered chain link fence five feet high. They had a natural old 4 foot by 60 foot old flower bed area to go to with a pine tree to get under or into on the branches if they liked. They took dirt baths in my huge flower planters. We had lots of room for them to catch bugs and worms they loved. Had a chicken coop that you put together. Comes in pieces with directions. Was so cute and perfect for them three. Plenty of room. Two floors. They could sit up stair or go to their laying boxes which stuck out the sides upstairs and harder a lid you could lock or put a carabiner clamp on to keep egg thieves out. I had a swing that the squirrels trashed one winter to live in the seats because their home, a huge willow tree got struck by lightning and completely fell over. It had to be hundreds of years old. Held a lot of wild life. Well we used the top and frame to put over the little coop and put tarps around the whole structure except where they had to walk in and I had to lift up the tarp to collect eggs. In the north it gets windy and snowy. I had to keep them warm with the tarp to block wind and heat lamp and heated water just for them. I had them two years and my neighbor reported me. She did not even know I had them. The one across the street who should not be in my back yard when I go to the doctor. Now I have no more chickens. I'm a shut in. We are out in what used to be called the booneys because we were at out in the wooded suburbs. SMH.
The neighbor's husband fell bad the next day due to passing out. She called everyone. She got a skin tear. She can't called the fire dept. anymore if he falls. Ppl should just love one another and not call about things that don't concern nor affect them. Anyway, my husband brought them here when I told him not to. Life is weird. Now I miss them. Bad.
They would come up to my back window door and look in on me to see what I was doing. If they needed me for some little thing, they pecked on the window. If they needed me for some big thing, one would throw herself at the window. I forgot now why she did that. It was my favorite who always looked out for the other two yet they put her on the lowest of the pecking order. At the end she could eat with them instead of last. I was happy to see that finally they were three equal birds and there was no pecking order. She looked so much happy, too. I miss them. EspeciAlly her.

[sharonwalia]

My chickens had their first small box home to hide in if the hawk came and many other places to hide. Owl, too. If they saw the hawk and they were out in the open, they stood perfectly still like they were not real. Lol. For minutes like five minutes until the hawk stopped its circling. He saw no movement on the ground so went on. Smart hens. So interesting that they knew to do that as a last resort.

[doctorsangeeth]

Well done video. Easy, Straight to the point and succinct. Wells done.

[Last_Green_Man]

3:45 lemons from a big crab boil? Thanks for the video. I'm installing something similar as I'm tired of all of my fly-overs messing around in my yard/ garden/ car port. Final straw was a sneaky naked neck hen snuck into our storage pod and was roosting on the couch we're storing out there as we renovate from flood damage. As if she owned it as well as everything else in there.

[rickj]

great video. been having an issue here but didn't want to spend to much or kill the problem makers, thanks really glad to see a video from u guys. hope to see you load lots more. have a great day yall

[QLH.Ubbers]

Yet another great video! :) I like that you preferred net rope vs just netting - inexpensive, strong and durable.
I am regularly sending people to you channel - as some point, I hope one of them gives you a channel shout out! ;)

[deepbeeps]

I did the same thing (bird mesh) but snow laid on it and caved it in. I changed to chicken wire on top and it has worked great.

[theshark]

That’s awesome thanks for the video, I have a problem with birds coming inside the coop and breaking the eggs. I thought it was my chickens but then I saw one getting inside one afternoon. And I checked and he was eating the egg

[Nicopasta]

Was just thinking about getting chickens and was worried about this, thank you so much!

[thinkingofothers]

Thank for recording this video. Looked like a great job. I will have to say to my friends and tell them about your channel.

[tooterre.]

Definitely another thumbs up video. Thank you for sharing

[dmartelis]

Glad to see you are doing well! Saw some of your videos back when you were a younger young lady! Lol