How To Put Up 328 Feet of Fence in 15 Minutes

I love our new electric poultry net. We struggled with major losses from our first crop of broilers this spring. The raccoons had a feast. I have been planning on getting some of this fence, and finally did it. I am really glad we did. It sets up very quickly and the two sections (@164 feet each) fence in a very large area. We are using the farm truck as our redneck fence charger for now. We moved the fence once and if you follow the directions, it works great. We got our fence from Kencove - they ship really fast and their prices are cheaper than Amazon for the same fence. I would buy it again any day (and no, we weren't compensated at all for the endorsement)

Portable fence set up with our chicken tractor inside

Redneck fence charger setup. I crank the truck every week or so. Of course I use the truck during the day on Saturdays, but the fence is for night time predators anyway.

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David Bradley Walk Behind Tractor and Engine Swap

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