Fence staples and hardware cloth

[Yeti]

Alright, I am starting to put up my hardware cloth in my run and found these "poultry staples" or "fence staples" that I have put up a couple of pieces with. Seems like they hold the wire to the 2x4 pretty strongly. My question is has anybody else used these (from Home Depot) or are you all using screws with fender washers?

 

[LegHorn-BusHorn]

My husband used a combination of both.

 

[DarkWolf]

I'll be using staples for the run. Tacking the wire up with standard staple gun staples so as I can get it stretched real nice, then going around it all with fence staples to hold it in place.

The likelyhood of EVER needing to remove a section of wire is slim, so that makes screws a huge waste of $$$, IMO.

 

[lux_interior]

Yes! I used poultry staples! Well, I bought poultry staples, and my fiance technically did all the work putting them up..... but we like them. I use them every year to put up my garden fence too... I believe they're cheaper as well..

 

[Ridgerunner]

It depends on what I am using it for. I use the staples in the run, but for the vents on my coop, I screw strips of wood over the hardware cloth to hold the hardward cloth very securely. Mine are in the run during the day when many predators are not as active so my run is reasonably predator proof. They are in the coop at night when predators are very active and I'm not around, so the coop is very predator proof. The staples would probably work fine, but for my coop, I believe in overkill.

 

[lux_interior]

Quote:
On my windows I put up the wire with poultry staples, and then also screwed strips of wood over the edges

 

[cmjust0]

In the vent area of my coop, I used roofing nails to hold the hardware cloth, then capped the eges with 2x4s.

 

[SimplyForties]

I'm using poultry staples on my movable run. I find them difficult to bang in on the unsupported lengths but handy and quick on the sturdier parts. I plan to use them on the stationary coop/run.

 

[cockadoodle]

I used about a box of those staples yesterday on my run where it connects to the elevated coop, and to secure the fencing all around the bottom of it. Most of my run has T-posts for the posts so I'm using hog-rings and zip-ties for most of those connections. Where I could use the staples, I did and they worked great with one exception.... The siding on my coop is a compressed fiber board / concrete that looks like wood siding, but isn't. The staples aren't holding well enough in that application for me to trust it, so am going to sandwich the fence material between the siding and a 2x4 board that I nail into the coops, studs. If I do it right, the 2x4 will just look like trim that I was planning on putting in anyways. The staples worked great on 4 by 4 posts and anywhere else that solid wood is available. I found a pair of needle-nose pilars really helpful in holding those staples while getting them started.

Mark

 

[Grammahen]

We used fence staples but boy were they hard for me to nail. My poor thumbs and fingers were wacked a million times. I'm not very good at hammering.