T-Post Fence Inspiration

[dearmeghann]

Good morning! We want to start building a property fence, and I'm unsure of the best direction to take. We want to keep costs down and avoid making something super permanent (cementing in 4x4s). We're thinking about doing t-posts and then super sturdy 2x3 hog wire or hardware cloth. I would love to disguise the t-posts with wood. Has anyone had any luck? Any suggestions for tackling this project?

The main goals are:

• keep our chickens from roaming into the neighbors' area
• budget-friendly (we're doing it ourselves)
• not super permanent in case we don't like it. not super time-consuming, we want to be able to do most of the back yard in a weekend

Our bigger girls won't fly over the fences, the littles probably will. I'm not super concerned about that. We can trim feathers if they become escape artists. They don't free range without supervision, so this is definitely for us, not having to keep an eye on them all the time.

Apologies if there are threads with this exact topic. I tried searching, and all I could find were electric fence threads.

 

[casportpony]

I would love to disguise the t-posts with wood. Has anyone had any luck?

Have you seen these?
https://www.horseguardfence.com/shop/cat46.php

 

[TioBollio]

Good morning! We want to start building a property fence, and I'm unsure of the best direction to take. We want to keep costs down and avoid making something super permanent (cementing in 4x4s). We're thinking about doing t-posts and then super sturdy 2x3 hog wire or hardware cloth. I would love to disguise the t-posts with wood. Has anyone had any luck? Any suggestions for tackling this project?

The main goals are:

• keep our chickens from roaming into the neighbors' area
• budget-friendly (we're doing it ourselves)
• not super permanent in case we don't like it. not super time-consuming, we want to be able to do most of the back yard in a weekend

Our bigger girls won't fly over the fences, the littles probably will. I'm not super concerned about that. We can trim feathers if they become escape artists. They don't free range without supervision, so this is definitely for us, not having to keep an eye on them all the time.

Apologies if there are threads with this exact topic. I tried searching, and all I could find were electric fence threads.

T posts are a great solution, I just don't know how you would disguise them.
We have a neighbor who painted his brown, it actually looks pretty good.
The hardest part is going to be making sturdy corners (and depending on distance stretch panels) to get your wire tight.
I know there are hardware kits that allow you to use t posts to build the corners, I've never used them so can't comment on how sturdy they are.

 

[TioBollio]

Have you seen these?
https://www.horseguardfence.com/shop/cat46.php

Wow! I've never seen those before. I bet they could be adapted for hog wire.
They're pretty proud of them! $$$