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Premier 48" PoultryNet
Contain and control the movement of poultry on a daily or weekly basis
Keeps in chickens, ducks, geese and other poultry while keeping their ground-based predators out.
PoultryNet
A prefabricated, portable electric fence that has 12 horizontal strands (11 conductive), is 48" tall installed and has string verticals every 3". Built-in line posts are spaced every 10'.
Keeps in chickens, ducks, geese and other poultry while keeping their ground-based predators out. Recommended for active, flighty birds. The taller 48" net is more likely to discourage large predators such as coyotes and dogs.
Arrives to your door as a preassembled fence. One roll (164 ft) weighs only 24 lbs. You will need a fence energizer to electrify the net.
Common Uses
- Contain and control the movement of chickens, ducks and other poultry on a daily or weekly basis.
- Rotate poultry to fresh grass as a food source and to reduce disease risks.
- Keep small flocks in the backyard. When managed well, chickens are an indispensable garden tool—turning pesky insects and weeds into rich compost.
- Keeps out deer, bear, raccoons, rabbits, foxes, coyotes, stray dogs and skunks.
- Can be used to contain and control livestock other than poultry, such as sheep, goats, cattle and guard dogs.
Installation
The same “unroll and then unfold” process applies to all electrified nets. Minimal strength or skill needed (and no tools). Extra supports such as FiberTuff step-in posts (sold separately) are useful at corners, curves and ends.
Precautions
Electric fence is a pain barrier, not a physical barrier. A common mistake is not electrifying it. Animals may escape or become entangled (and may die). On a % basis, entanglement is very rare, but it can and does occur. If animals are scared or starved it will not keep them in. The first time you put the animals in the net, you should be available to watch them for a while. That way if one were to get into the fence and get caught, you can turn the power off and get them loose.
Electrify Your Fence
Electrifying the fence with an energizer is essential. For the fence to be effective at keeping out predators, it must be electrified to deter them from the flock.
Energizers sold separately.
What’s the best fence energizer?
Poultry, due to the nature of their legs and minimal body weight, have much higher resistance to electricity than a cow, horse, pig or dog. And the fence, due to its low-to-the-ground nature, is prone to high weed contact. So low output units (such as those sold in farm stores) usually disappoint. We recommend using a pulse-style 0.6 joule unit or larger for up to 3 rolls of PoultryNet. Units with less joule output may work for 1 to 2 rolls of netting if grass contact is kept to an absolute minimum.
How does netting work?
The horizontal strands are energized (except for the bottom one that rests on the grass) by a fence energizer. When chickens or ground-based predators touch it, they receive a high-voltage shock from the brief electric pulse—and learn to avoid it.
This is netting’s biggest negative. Too much green grass or weed contact lowers the voltage of the fence. To overcome:
- When grass gets 6" high, mow along the fence. If you mow into the fence, your wallet, the mower and the net will regret it! Move the net into the mowed strip by removing and reinstalling one post at a time. Takes approx. 5 minutes per roll of net.
- Or buy an energizer with enough joule output to cope with extra weed contact.
A good rule of thumb is to buy an energizer with more joule output than you’ll think you need. When the fence pleases, most folks will buy more fence—and need additional output.
Won’t chickens fly over the fence?
Birds will fly over the fence if there is insufficient feed, too crowded, or if they’re trying to avoid fights. Some hens are just plain stubborn and refuse to “get with the program”. When first let out in the morning, watch for the hen that gets out first. She’s the lead troublemaker and prime contender for clipping.
If there’s an escape problem, we find it’s usually led by a hen or two with the rest simply following along. Identifying her and clipping the flight feathers on one wing usually solves this problem. This does not have to be done for the whole flock.
Note: Electric poultry netting won’t stop young birds small enough to slip through the 2" net openings.
- Clipping wings doesn’t hurt the bird
- Reduces its ability to take flight over 42"–48"
- Hold the bird in comfortable position, then open one wing to stretch it out.
- Cut the primary flight feathers (those furthest from the body) about halfway down the shaft.
- You only need to clip one wing, not both.
Pamela Jones
Reviewed in the United States on January 1, 2025
This product did not disappoint! Great size and easy to install.
shelia marley
Reviewed in the United States on January 1, 2025
Wish I had bought this fence years ago. Love the ease of set up and disassemble as well as the quality of the fencing. Can move anytime anywhere! Lasted during hurricane Helene in nc
HT
Reviewed in the United States on August 19, 2024
Works well for our chickens and ducks.Well made product.
Samantha
Reviewed in the United States on July 19, 2024
If you live in the desert make sure you get the pos neg fence. This is pos pos and isn’t great in the desert.
Steven
Reviewed in the United States on April 9, 2023
As is often the case, check pricing! Even with Prime, this is less expensive directly from Premier 1.That said, this is top quality poultry netting, whether you use the electric fence capability or not.Easy to unpack, unroll/unfurl and set up, the entire process can be done by a single person in a fairly short time so long as you can handle the whole bundle. It's a bit awkward, but doable, especially after doing it a few times. As it's not meant for long-term setup, moving it every week or two, perhaps three is definitely recommended. At the least, it should be adjusted regularly, to ensure the netting remains taught and upright as it should be.For those who are perhaps shorter (>6ft here), or who lack the needed strength or ability to manhandle inanimate objects of this bulk, a small garden cart or wheelbarrow would facilitate the setup quite a bit.
JCG
Reviewed in the United States on January 5, 2018
Great customer service from Premier 1 and a great product. I did some web research and still called with my dumb questions and they were very patient and helpful. I have a total of three of these poultrynet fences connected together (@492 linear feet) and so far so good. I could not ask for a better containment system for: Two goats, two pigs, four ducks and 20+ chickens and roos. We rotate our animals through a highly wooded/hilly 5 acre lot with one central barn-thingie. I call it Goat-tanamo Bay. We have moderate coyote, raccoon, redneck neighbor and dog pressure and this system has deterred incursions thus far. We move this fence almost every month and it is still super durable.By my definition of humane (I homestead, I eat animals, but I don’t eat friends) this system is humane. Every now and again I will hear a random LOUD squeal, bleat or cluck but the shock has never maimed or injured an animal. It’s more of a surprise really. Like a 6,000 volt birthday present, while you are not looking. With that said, I do not put small or juvenile animals into the paddock until they have demonstrated a wee bit of sense and some hardiness. Our domestic cat and little rat-dog each met the electronet once or twice… Now they won’t even go near it. The cat is smarter than the dog.There are a few notes that I hope will save you some headaches:• You must use the correct style AND size energizer. You cannot use high impedance style energizers with this electronet or you will burn up the net. Select an energizer beefy enough to charge all your fence length or you will not keep the good guys in and the bad guys out.• You must adequately ground (earth) your system with the recommended number of rods (per your energizer’s specifications). You can have the best electronet and energizer combo but if you are not grounded adequately you will NOT deliver sufficient shock to contain your animals.• As our paddock dries out from lack of rainfall, the intensity of the shock decreases and we have a few bold chickens make the jailbreak. If the same chicken keeps getting out, then we make Coq au Vin… The French have a tasty solution for unruly cockerels and hens.• The electronet will not protect my tasty animals from aerial predators or attacks (hawks, falcons, etc.) but a 12 gauge will.• Don’t make narrow channels or funny shapes with the fence or your animals might get wrapped up in the electronet, get shocked, shock you as you struggle to untangle them, escape the paddock, lose their ear tag in the struggle and get eaten by coyotes later that night as your children weep, wail and lament… It was a rough first night…• Your wife will not laugh as hard as you do if she shocks her bum on this fence…Homesteading is tough but fun!This is a great product, great company and I was not compensated by anyone for this review. I would buy it again and I suggest you buy it too. Even if you don’t have animals…Jokes aside, I hope you find this helpful!EDIT 6/16/2020I just wanted to do a 2.5 year follow up on this great product. This net is just as good today as the day I bought it! It does not appear to have degraded or declined in performance one bit. It keeps my animals safe from predators and still shocks my wife on the bum from time to time...EDIT 9/30/2020In central Kentucky we have lot's of standing dead Ash trees from the Emerald Ash Borer destruction. One of these Ash trees fell full on my electronet fence... The fence did not break it just laid down until I could cut the 10" diameter trunk up and then remove several hundred pounds of wood. I put the posts back in the ground and the fence works just as well as it did before the tree fell on it. If that is not quality, I don't know what is...
Customer
Reviewed in the United States on August 20, 2017
It is a good fence for keeping in my chickens. it is nice to be able to move it. there is a lot of sagging. it is impossible to keep it as upright as it is shown in the picture. you will absolutely want at least on pack of the fibertuff fence posts to help with the sagging. it also helps to have curves not corners. you will also want to have a rubber mallet handy to pound in the stakes, there are always rocks in the way. not as easy to put up as they suggest because the points that go into the ground aren't very heavy and won't go in past rocks without some pounding on them. but with a little more work then you were hoping for it does work and i have moved it by myself which is nice.
Shonna O'Quinn
Reviewed in the United States on June 20, 2017
After repeated fox attacks, an incredibly greedy set of possums, and a trio of family dogs that got too excited if the chickens escaped their enclosure we settled on this poultry netting. It has been perfect! We haven't had possums sneaking in to eat eggs and hang out in the nesting boxes or a mama fox hell bent on feeding her young compliments of my "all you can eat" chicken population. Our dogs don't go near the wiring so that hasn't been a problem. However, I received the fright of my mid-life when I went to gather eggs and I was beat to the punch with what can only be described as the worlds largest grey rat snake. Satan's 2nd cousin was coiled around my clutch of eggs and in the process of having lunch. I "noped" the hell out of there and let him have his fill. We can only assume that he slithered up a tree and did a swan dive down into the coop as there is no way to weave his devil ass though the netting. I can attest for the shock value of the netting as well. My husband created a "gap" for which me to pass through. He also left 2 strands of traditional wiring which required a "step over". Ummmmm, note to self, don't bend too far over when stepping through the pass and over the hot wiring. That poultry netting lit up my hind end like I was tasered by the cops. My glutes seized up and sent shock waves down my thighs, rendering me immobile for a good several minutes. I howled like a banshee until my husband came running, thinking I had been the victim of a chicken uprising. Those feathered losers only wanted the blueberries I had in hand and couldn't have cared less about my paralyzation. So yes.........I recommend this poultry netting.
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