How good is chicken wire?

[emarble]

Yep Hardware cloth is Metal and really stiff and requires good heavy shears to cut it with! I can cut todays chicken wire with a knife and it doesnt have to be that sharp! I bought a roll remembering the days of old when we had chickens and chicken wire! Brought it home and guess what it is still on the roll I didn't even trust it for a gate with hot wire in front of It! I am going to make some brooder cages to use inside my chicken house that is surrounded by welded wire and electric fence btw! Wont expose my ladies by using faulty wire! Spend the extra and go with a good Welded WIRE hardware cloth!

Ernie

 

[theFox]

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This needs to be repeated never rely on staples of any sort when using wire mesh, you should frame and use screws if possible. If you must use nails they should be ridged nails driven at multiple angles to prevent the framing from being worked off. The framing prevents paws from having a place to grip the mesh and repeatedly bending it so it breaks.

Chicken wire is good for exactly one thing: keeping chickens in.

 

[theFox]

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Just because someone makes a plastic item and calls it the same thing as something that has been around for a long time doesn't make it so.

Just because your cat has its kittens in a stove oven it doesn't make them muffins.

 

[theFox]

Hit the wrong button

 

[gryeyes]

Chicken wire is absolutely perfect for folding and bending into forms on which to lay papier mache. I once built an amazing, winged dragon with a chicken wire framework.

Or you can fold it up into interesting shapes and spray paint it gold, for another art project.

 

[Lbrad7]

I had a coon tear/chew through three layers of the old chicken wire back in the 70s so I know they can still get through the heavier guage wire, (at least from that time period) not sure about the stuff from the 60s. The chicken wire they make now makes a nice floss for the coons to use on their way out after eating your chickens. If you or your grandfather haven't ever had a problem; I would count my blessings and get some welded wire up asap.

 

[emarble]

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Ditto on getting the welded WIRE! Never rely On Chicken Wire! I like the floss thing that was good

 

[CMV]

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Yeah, my only use use chicken wire is as armature for sculpture.

 

[tazcat70]

I agree about the quality of chicken wire going down hill. I was given some that was obviously an old roll, and it is much stronger than the new stuff. I still prefer the hardware cloth (metal.)

 

[silkiechicken]

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Oh, that 60's stuff is no hardware cloth, I had a coon tear right though it. I used that stuff when I was about 14 when that is what I had available. I use the stuff to fence the chickens out of the veggie gardens.