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Before I go building my pizza oven I really need to look at my priories and get stuck into building a dog proof perimetre fence to create a safe environment for my chickens and ducks to roam.
Last weekend I lost another duck to a dog attack - the mongrel simply pushed under my boundary fence and a got the duck whilst she was out of the pen free-ranging. My actual chicken pen is dog proof but I can't properly secure my whole property boundary for several reasons and one being it's just to big to dog proof on my budget.
Therefore, I'm going to build another perimetre fence around my pen giving my birds about an acre of yard to safe graze but how to dog proof it and keep it low budget? I simply can't dig the dog fencing down in the soil because it would quickly rust and get dug under anyway.
A guy at Bunnings suggested I place wooden sleepers dug-in all the way around the fence and tack the fence onto it (which isn't a bad idea) but it would still cost me around $1000 in sleepers alone!
I'm thinking of digging a narrow trench 200 mil wide x 250 mil deep and as I do the posts for the fence at the same time I fill the trench with concrete but how much would that cost? Would it be cheaper then sleepers? I am yet to price this method however it seems to be the most logical.
The fence would then be positioned over the top of the concrete trench and when properly taught dogs wouldn't be able to push or dig under.
Well, that's my theory - wish me luck and as always I'm open to suggestions.
Edit: I have written an article about how I made this fence on my blog Self Sufficient Me here.
Last weekend I lost another duck to a dog attack - the mongrel simply pushed under my boundary fence and a got the duck whilst she was out of the pen free-ranging. My actual chicken pen is dog proof but I can't properly secure my whole property boundary for several reasons and one being it's just to big to dog proof on my budget.
Therefore, I'm going to build another perimetre fence around my pen giving my birds about an acre of yard to safe graze but how to dog proof it and keep it low budget? I simply can't dig the dog fencing down in the soil because it would quickly rust and get dug under anyway.
A guy at Bunnings suggested I place wooden sleepers dug-in all the way around the fence and tack the fence onto it (which isn't a bad idea) but it would still cost me around $1000 in sleepers alone!
I'm thinking of digging a narrow trench 200 mil wide x 250 mil deep and as I do the posts for the fence at the same time I fill the trench with concrete but how much would that cost? Would it be cheaper then sleepers? I am yet to price this method however it seems to be the most logical.
The fence would then be positioned over the top of the concrete trench and when properly taught dogs wouldn't be able to push or dig under.
Well, that's my theory - wish me luck and as always I'm open to suggestions.
Edit: I have written an article about how I made this fence on my blog Self Sufficient Me here.
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