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Re:Egg Prices Are Soaring. Are Backyard Chickens the Answer? by colechristensen on Wednesday February 19, 2025 @06:31PM (#43109159)
For starters nobody uses an electric fence for chickens. You have them for cattle because they’re so big building a fence sturdy enough they can’t just push over is expensive.
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Re:Egg Prices Are Soaring. Are Backyard Chickens the Answer? by ezekg on Wednesday February 19, 2025 @07:16PM (#43109558)
Yes they do: https://www.premier1supplies.com/poultry/fencing.php?fence_i...
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Re:Egg Prices Are Soaring. Are Backyard Chickens the Answer? by pests on Thursday February 20, 2025 @03:38AM (#43112462)
Are we forgetting chickens can fly? Why are we using fences
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Re:Egg Prices Are Soaring. Are Backyard Chickens the Answer? by GJim on Thursday February 20, 2025 @08:40AM (#43114494)
> For starters nobody uses an electric fence for chickens

Good lord man!

They're for keeping the foxes out, not the chickens in!

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