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If you don't require the door itself to have a hotwire on it, you'd just run an insulated wire over the doorframe to carry the electricity to the hotwire on the far side.
If you require a hotwire on the door itself, usually you'd wire it so that you unhook the hotwire there before...
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It's not intended to stop that... although the weasel tribe is not usually THAT inclined to climb unless they really really wanna.
It's intended ONLY as reach-thru prevention, with the assumption generally being that the chickens will be locked indoors at night (which is really about...
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It's not intended to stop that... although the weasel tribe is not usually THAT inclined to climb unless they really really wanna.
It's intended ONLY as reach-thru prevention, with the assumption generally being that the chickens will be locked indoors at night (which is really about...
Dissenting opinion here.
While hardwarecloth is of course better, I do not think chickenwire is really THAT much worse from the perspective of (specifically and only!) preventing reach-thru incidents.
Chickenwire IS effective in keeping (adult, large-fowl) chickens from poking their heads...