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Deploy Mobile Coop and Electric Fence

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What happens here

Josh positions a mobile chicken coop, measuring 12x10 feet and capable of housing 35-50 birds, in the freshly mowed pasture. He explains that this coop is designed to be moved daily, allowing the chickens to access fresh forage and naturally fertilize different sections of the land. He then sets up 'Premier 1 Shocker Net' poultry netting in a circular pattern around the mobile coop. This netting features a smaller mesh at the bottom to prevent small chicks from escaping. The fence is energized by an 'Intellishock 60' solar fence charger, which is designed to deter predators while also containing the birds. He demonstrates installing the solar charger by driving its integrated ground rod into the earth and connecting its clips to the netting. The charger provides a pulsed electric shock to the fence.

Goal: A mobile chicken coop is strategically placed in the freshly mowed pasture, and electric poultry netting is erected around it, powered by a solar fence charger for both predator deterrence and bird containment.

Tools and materials

  • Clips
  • Ground rod
  • Intellishock 60 solar fence charger
  • Mobile chicken coop
  • Premier 1 Shocker Net poultry netting

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this is our mobile coop it is 12 by 10 it will house 35 to 50 birds it does absolutely awesome we move it every single day or we do this other setup that we're getting ready to do today now you can see a circle right here of tall green grass and we're getting ready to make another circle so this is premier one shock or not poultry netting will set this 150 foot section of poultry netting up right here we'll move our mobile coop into that section we'll Jack it up on one side so the birds have a safe place to go a place to go in the shade and they can explore grass now what's so important about getting your birds out on pasture this is the way a chicken is supposed to live this is how we fertilize our yard this is what we do this is how we establish pasture land this is how we establish good soil we move our birds out here on pasture now why don't we cut the grass well we need the grass about that tall so that the shock are not poultry netting goes all the way down to the ground because if we put it in this tall grass over here the birds would escape they could go up underneath now the poultry netting serves two purposes the poultry netting serves as protection from from predators for the birds and it also serves as a way to contain the birds now this is shocked or not netting it's a little bit different we'll go over and get a close-up of it here in just a minute but we use a solar fence charger and a-tellin tell a check sixty solar fence charger and there's a reason why we're using Intel a shock 60 it's because it works because it's reliable all right this is the shock are not fence you see how it has poultry net and it has it looks like almost badminton netting well that is at the bottom probably on the first 12 inches or so and it keeps the little baby birds from escaping now once they get a little bit bigger if they start pushing up against the net it might give them a little jolt and remind them don't touch the fence now if a critter comes up like a coyote or a fox or something like that and touches their nose to that boom it hits and it shocks the snot out of them now on all four sides of our mobile coop we have lighting we have solar motion lights so what does a predator fear the most being discovered so think about that it's a very cheap insurance policy let's go get our birdies and we're gonna go ahead and set this all up and let them loose in here [Music] okay this is the until a shock 60 it is a solar-powered self-contained movable fence charger…

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