we have a small flock of shetlands (8 ewes and 6 rams, all the rams are this years). they are pretty tame and great flock to manage.
we have one of our fields that is really overgrown due to not getting it topped and now it is full of docks and other yucky weeds. i think i want to put the sheep on it to eat down the sward and also eat the docks (as i know from expereince that they cleared our other field beautifully).
we have stout fencing all around but there will be a bit of the field that i dont want them to get into as it has hens and ducks, plus duck pond, on it. the only fencing around these areas is poultry netting.
i cant afford to put up stout stock fencing to keep them out of here, but i cant risk letting them get into these areas either as they might get hurt.
anyone got any ideas. would sheep fencing do the job? i would be worried that the boys might get tangled up in it?
i have electric tape for the horses area, but i doubt if they'd respect that either ......