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Set Up Solar-Powered Electric Netting for Predator Control

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What happens here

To safeguard the chickens from various predators (such as foxes, coyotes, and raccoons), a movable electric netting fence is employed. The video details how this netting is erected to create a secure perimeter around the chicken tractor. A key feature is the use of a solar charger, which powers the fence, making the entire system self-sufficient and ideal for remote pasturing without access to grid electricity. The presenter demonstrates how to unroll and position the netting, ensuring it is taut and effectively electrified to deter any potential threats.

Goal: This step explains the installation and management of a solar-powered electric netting fence to effectively protect the chicken flock from predators.

Tools and materials

  • Electric Netting Fence Premier1Supplies — Enclosing the chickens and deterring predators
  • Solar Charger — Powering the electric netting fence

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be the first guy to tell you that part of farming is experimenting and part of farming is trying different methods and trying different things and different tools and different ideas and sharing in those different ideas here on YouTube if you're raising meat Birds for profit you can do this raising meat birds for profit if you're raising meat birds for your family just a small amount of meat Birds you can do this raising meat birds for your family I'm telling you I'm getting less food waste I'm utilizing more food I'm saving money I'm getting a better bird a cleaner bird and a bird that moves around better which means in turn that I'm getting a stronger bird a bird that's healthier and a bird that's going to have more immune resistance for me when I consume that bird in other words when I consume a bird that has good immune resistance it helps my body with its immune resistance so what we have here are two buckets of feed these two buckets had water added to them one of them was two days ago and one of them was three days ago I'm going to show you the differences in these buckets so this is just feed it's all basically swollen up and you can see that it's all the way to the top of the bucket and this one's almost overflowing well these buckets were only filled up about halfway full when we filled them up so we put half a bucket of feed in and then we filled the bucket to the rim

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