FYI: Poultry fencing @ Lowes

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happybooker1 said:
You're more than welcome! We finished the fence today & my EE has already flown over it.
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She just flies out & in at will, but I had SOME hope the 4' would stop it. Oh well......
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I had 4 foot wire to begin with and some of the chickens were flying over it. I tore it all down last summer and expanded the pen around the run and coop to 100 feet by 40 feet with 5 foot wire and I haven't had a chicken out since. My wire is 12 gage wire 2x4 inch welded wire and a 100 foot long roll of 5 foot high wire is about $60. Be careful of 'bargain' wire because if it's too small of a gage wire, it can be torn to pieces just like chicken wire. Also, there has been a problem of some of the wire fencing that the box stores have been carrying coming apart (welds breaking).

Yes, chickens can be replaced when they come up missing but when you have over $300 in 4 chickens with the cost of heritage breeds, the shipping boxes and shipping costs, and it's not of unheard of to lose a whole flock in the period of a few nights, it's an unnecessary expense when better wire could have been used not to mention the fact that it puts the egg laying program back about 6 months. I met a guy last summer at a BBQ who lost his first 50 chickens in the period of one week. Who needs that kind of cost of doing business?
 
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This ad is deceiving. It shows a roll of welded wire but says galvanized poultry netting (chicken wire). Big difference in the durability and price of welded wire vs. poultry netting.
 
chiknhurder said:
This ad is deceiving. It shows a roll of welded wire but says galvanized poultry netting (chicken wire). Big difference in the durability and price of welded wire vs. poultry netting.
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I know it was deceiving. I bought it going by the picture hoping it was the welded wire, and it was
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I've never heard of this style of wire being called poultry netting.
 
jenniemig said:
I know it was deceiving. I bought it going by the picture hoping it was the welded wire, and it was
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I've never heard of this style of wire being called poultry netting.
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As a rule poultry netting is just another name for cheap chicken wire. It's 20 gauge wire, about half the thickness of welded wire, and it's just twisted together instead of being welded. It's very flimsy and, with a good pair of leather gloves to keep from cutting my hands, I can rip a hole in it. It would be easy for any wild animal from about 30 pounds on up that's hungry and using claws and teeth to rip through it.

I know you've made your coop/run area more secure by adding the apron and welded wire so you get it. Some don't and think because they've never lost a chicken that it won't happen. I used to be the same way.

I purchased chicken wire and completely covered my run and all windows with it when I was building my coop before it ever left my workshop. The people at the box store where I purchased the chicken wire told me that it was what I needed but, after talking to a few people who actually raised chickens, it was recommended to me that if I was serious about keeping the predators out I should replace it so I ripped it all off and replaced it with the 12.5 gauge welded wire. I paid $100 per roll for 2 rolls or 100 foot by 5 foot high welded wire so surround my coop and covered run as well as all vents, doors and windows and it's the best investment I've made toward a predator set up.

The people in the stores don't always know what's best. When I first got started, I was sold a pre-fab chicken coop that was perfect for someone just starting out. They said I could keep up to 6 chickens in it and that it was well built. Looking back I see now that 2 or 3 good sized hens would have been all that I could hope to get inside of the thing. The first one I took home fell apart trying to drag it across the yard because it was put together with tiny staples that were only going into the wood about a quarter inch. I returned it and took another one home hoping it would be a bit sturdier and the second night the chickens were in it, something ripped a hole through the wire to get in and kill all 4 pullets and ripped a new hole to get out. Lesson learned!
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I actually used about 90' of the 150' roll I had bought & sold the remainder on my local CL for $20 so the 90' ended up costing me $18 total. T- Posts were free (my neighbor gave them to me), labor was mostly free (son -- but he wanted to eat out later), wire fasteners & a gate post were $10 so the entire fence redo cost about $30. Can't get better than that!

FYI: I didn't know about this handy gadget until my neighbor loaned me one but it's the cat's pajamas if you're setting T-posts!!

T-post driver/hammer
 

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