On Thu, 15 May 2008 22:35:02 +0100, A_ L _P wrote
(in article <482CAC86.4050800@[EMAIL PROTECTED]
>):
> Amy Blanken****p wrote:
>> "Sally Thompson" <spt@[EMAIL PROTECTED]
> wrote in message
>> news:0001HW.C452446B00FD51C8F0182648@[EMAIL PROTECTED]
>
>>> However, our back boundary slopes down to a stream, which has a couple
of
>>> husband-made bridges over and then just stock fence the other side of
the
>>> stream (not our boundary). The bridges are both reached down some
rough
>>> steps. Are the hens likely to go down the steps and over the bridges
do
>>> you
>>> think? If they go over to the other bank they can of course then
wander
>>> down
>>> the opposite bank of the stream, possibly never to be seen again.
>>>
>>> Sorry for the long posting but I hope I have explained sufficiently.
It
>>> is
>>> not possible to fence off the stream, nor would we want to.
>
> How about fences across the bridges at the chook-territory side?
<snip>
Yes, my husband has now suggested this. The bridges are slatted, so he
has
offered to slat in some enviromesh part way across. Be ready for a
posting
when I don't see the mesh and fall flat on to my face - or into the
stream!
--
Sally in Shrop****re, UK
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