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How can I keep my chickens from getting the blueberries, and tomatoes.
I read somewhere online about netting the blueberries bushes from birds.
What do I ask for and where do you get netting?
 

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You can get it at Tractor Supply or Orchliens( I don't think I spelled that right). Usually a farm supply store or gardening center. Ask for bird netting. I have it over my garden. I had trouble keeping the out of my tomatoes. They was eating them all. Bird netting took care of it. Don't waste your money on the sprays they didn't work.
 

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The home improvement stores sell it too. I have it over my raised vegetable beds to keep the chickens and dogs out.
For something high like the tomatoes we put 4 stakes in the ground at each corner of the bed and then put the netting over it and staked the bottoms of the netting to the ground.
You should try to put the netting on away from the plants ,shrubs etc. if you just drape it over so that its touching the plants then the chickens can still stick their beaks in and peck at them.
Thats why we do the stakes around the beds like a cage.
Good luck outwitting the little buggers.
 

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I had that problem too with some young roos that were free rangers. I ate them. No more chicken problem.

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