Free Range Chicken Fence

Can chickens fly over a 4 foot fence.

Free range chicken fence.

An experienced pasture raised poultry expert robert plamondon shares his thoughts on the best methods of keeping free range chickens. Fencing also functions as protection especially in free range chicken gardens. Chickens can easily get over a four foot fence with the possible exception of the silkie and my orpingtons. We focus on trying to bring the healthiest bird possible to your table by not giving these animals antibiotics and growth hormones in their feed.

I have found that the best way of containing free range. A fence to keep chickens in has to be 6 foot or 1 8 metres high. The amount of materials used will naturally differ between sites and projects. We also give these animals more space to roam outside.

I recommend the same to keep bantams inside the yard so they can free range. Make the protection of your chickens your number one priority because chickens have little means of protecting themselves. With a maximum of 20 chickens in a 1 3 acre fenced yard green vegetation covers the ground. Pitman family has been raising poultry for the last 60 years and has been passed through three family generations.

It would just be a bare overcrowded run. But if i had 200 chickens in the same area the ground would be bare and this would not be limited free range. I used extra materials like posts because i also built a retaining wall as part of the fence to incorporate a raised picnic area and viewing platform overlooing chicken park. Marys free range chickens are from the pitman family farm.

It is common sense to protect your free ranging chickens with a perimeter fence as a first line of defense against predators. Background historically free range in poultry meant that the chickens were either totally unfenced or were kept in a field so large that the fences had little effect on their movement.