Australia - Six states..and that funny little island.

[ChristieB]

Appps I've seen it at bunnings in the same place as the chicken wire not sure what it was called, I think it's just called wire mesh.

 

[ChristieB]

Yep
http://www.bunnings.com.au/our-range/garden/landscaping/wire-fencing-posts/wire-mesh

 

[vehve]

The stuff I used was 19mm*19mm with 1.05mm wire, I paid 75 euros for 25 meters of 1 meter wide net (and saw it on sale for 50 euros two weeks later). Underneath my run I just sewed the net together with steel wire to make a piece that covered the whole bottom.

 

[appps]

Looks a bit like aviary wire?

I'm curious though how long any wire will last? I don't know when ours lost it's strength but we didn't get ten years, it's quite easily brittle when we hit the old buried stuff.

 

[vehve]

I don't know how long it will last, but the thicker it is, the longer it will last. Concrete is a more forever solution, but I needed something that drains. I don't know if re-using tin roofing panels would be an idea too if you don't need it to drain that well, they would break down eventually too, but I think they would provide pretty good protection for quite some time.

 

[DylanL]

I've just built my coop a couple weeks ago and bought aviary mesh from bunnings, there chicken wire was really crap quality, as for the ground to stop foxs (I live on a property) I used down old gate' s and wired them to the bottom of the aviary wire, it a a shame we have to worry about the ******** at all! That was the hardest part of the coop, making it Fox proof

 

[vehve]

I'm planning on building a rabbit hutch using compost frames, if you have something like that there, they might work too.

These go for 10 euros here, you get four 90cm*70cm panels. I think laying out those flat and attaching them to each other would probably keep foxes out. Rats would go through, though.

 

[cwrite]

Looks a bit like aviary wire?

I'm curious though how long any wire will last? I don't know when ours lost it's strength but we didn't get ten years, it's quite easily brittle when we hit the old buried stuff.

appps - with hindsight I would go for pavers around the outside of the coop. If nothing can dig under then I figure that you don't need wire under the coop or run. We used the really fine vermin mesh for the botton half of our coop and it's not very strong. Something fell against the wire and ripped a small hole. The larger avairy mesh is much stronger.

 

[appps]

I've just built my coop a couple weeks ago and bought aviary mesh from bunnings, there chicken wire was really crap quality, as for the ground to stop foxs (I live on a property) I used down old gate' s and wired them to the bottom of the aviary wire, it a a shame we have to worry about the ******** at all! That was the hardest part of the coop, making it Fox proof

Sadly it's not just on property's you have to worry Dylan, we are smack bang in the middle of suburbia, 3 mins from the city centre and still lost some to foxes. Whoever had the bright idea to import them should have been shot instead!

I think I'll have a look at bunnings today and see what it's going to cost me for some sort of steel panel (I just don't trust wire to last) like you showed vehve or even building mesh panels. Water is a big problem if we have heavy bad rain though so got to weigh up cost of possibly gravel covered with sand to help get it out of the house compared to concrete. Anyone thinks it's cheaper than buying eggs is very misinformed lol

@cwrite I do have some pavers along the edge but not the whole way. Such an awful thing to find when a fox gets in I'm not sure I'd be willing to trust them though unless they were cemented in. Would worry as they started digging they would move enough for it to get past it.

 

[appps]

On a lighter note, my poor "baby" spent yesterday most distraught and doing the most heartbroken cry's because mum has decided at 12 weeks it's time to finally start laying and left the poor thing all alone lol

I'm starting to wonder if it's ever going to get its big girl cluck, it still peeps just like a little baby

As you can see though it's very nearly bigger than mum, actually if it wasn't for mum being poofy it probably would be bigger . She still calls it when it gets out of sight though