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Predator Fence
09/28/04 06:42 AM
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What do yall do to protect your pets in the yard from predators? I was thinking chain link fence with about 3' underground on the outside 6' high with angled wire at the top.
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What kind of pets, and what kind of predators....
That fence you described won't do much to keep hawks out of your poultry 
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Re: Predator Fence
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09/28/04 07:14 AM
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small dogs,worried bout yotes and such.
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Yikes that is going to look a lot like the Hunstville prison farm.
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phxraptor,
How big of an area do you want to fence in? Using chain link can get pretty expensive.
I don't have coyotes to deal with so my fence was primarily to keep the dogs in.
Instead of digging down to keep them from crawling out (or in your case in), I ran electric fence about 1' up and 1' away from the fencing. This also stopped them from jumping on the fence.
I used welded wire fence. It's less obtrusive than chain link and seemed to work just as well. The area I was doing was about an acre so I ran split rail then attached the welded wire to it. It pretty much disappeared from view once you got back aways.
I'm assuming you'll need to go higher so not sure if this setup would work for you.
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Re: Predator Fence
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09/28/04 10:02 AM
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bczoom, that sounds like a possible idea.
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A Great Pyreneese would work well.
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Re: Predator Fence
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09/29/04 09:18 PM
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Fred, that thing would eat my little dogs !
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Rather than going deep, consider laying 2 or 3 feet of fencing (chicken wire) flat on the ground around the outside of the fence. When buried, predators can't dig through and so far we haven't had one bright enough to figure out where the chicken wire stops.
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Can them yotes climb fences? Steve I meant 3 feet out from the fence not deep.
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fence with about 3' underground on the outside 6' high with angled wire at the top.
Explain this again, if you would. "underground" means another fence 3' out from the 6' fence? Just trying now to visualize your fence plan, not trying to be critical. 
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I mean a 6' high fence,chain link, with the chain link material extending 3' out from the vertical portion,slighty undergound. Any other suggestions? Thanks for the ideas.
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Basically it's laid flat (horizontal) and buried just deep enough to hide it. When something starts to dig and they run into the flat chainlink/chickenwire or whatever, they can't go any further and it's hard on their feet. A lot of kennels that can't monitor dogs outside have begun putting down fencing on the inside of their yards in this manner to prevent digging out.
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I did use some wire to whip stitch the flat fence to the upright fence. (Probably could have used rings too.) It helps keep anything from being able to squeeze through under the upright portion of fence.
I'm glad you explained you meant flat, 3' deep was going to take a whole lot of digging.
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So do you think what I have described will keep yotes from getting at my pups? Yotes couldn't climb a fence could they?
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I have personally experienced a Cocker Spaniel sized Springer Spaniel clear a 6' fence by jumping over it with nothing but an 8' running start, twice in about 5 minutes and also saw a Foxhound about 3' off the ground on her way to climbing over a 6' high chainlink fence.
I have also heard stories of thin muzzled dogs eating their way through chainlink. Using a small mesh and heavy ga. wire would help prevent this, but it still isn't failsafe and adds greatly to the cost of the fencing.
I wouldn't put a coyote beyond doing anything to get at something they want to.
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