Which do you prefer?

[Cattle dog Mom]

3 foot or 4 foot hardware cloth? (For making a run.) And do you have a reason for your preference?

 

[DobieLover]

3 foot or 4 foot hardware cloth? (For making a run.) And do you have a reason for your preference?

4 feet. That's standard spacing for lumber and supports.

 

[black_cat]

When I made a 6x6 run, 3 feet worked great because of where the supports were. However, for a larger size i'd go with wider spaced supports and 4 foot.

 

[3KillerBs]

We bought 4 foot because DH intends to build with supports 4 feet apart -- taking advantage of standard lengths for lumber and standard building practices.

 

[aart]

Best to choose the fencing/mesh width to match your framing design,
or match your framing to mesh width.


I used 14ga 2x4 welded wire 6' wide/tall, and spaced my supports to fit that:

 

[Cattle dog Mom]

Best to choose the fencing/mesh width to match your framing design,
or match your framing to mesh width.


I used 14ga 2x4 welded wire 6' wide/tall, and spaced my supports to fit that:
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I'm still not sure what the framing is even going to be/look like yet! LOL Undecided if I am going to use the existing pen I have for the turkeys, or do something new. If the former, I will just attach the HC to hog panels on one side, and welded wire dog kennel panels on the other 2 sides. If I do that, I will probably just use 3 foot because I will only be going "X" number of feet up from the ground rather than the whole thing. And to be honest, I'm not sure I need it at all in that case. (The hog panels already have 6 foot chain link attached to them.

 

[aart]

I'm still not sure what the framing is even going to be/look like yet! LOL Undecided if I am going to use the existing pen I have for the turkeys, or do something new. If the former, I will just attach the HC to hog panels on one side, and welded wire dog kennel panels on the other 2 sides. If I do that, I will probably just use 3 foot because I will only be going "X" number of feet up from the ground rather than the whole thing. And to be honest, I'm not sure I need it at all in that case. (The hog panels already have 6 foot chain link attached to them.

HA! IKR?!
What kind of mesh, and other materials, to use can be confusing, gotta look at the big picture as you plan all parts of your enclosures.

 

[Cattle dog Mom]

HA! IKR?!
What kind of mesh, and other materials, to use can be confusing, gotta look at the big picture as you plan all parts of your enclosures.

I have my turkeys in it currently. (Hence why I attached the chain link. #1 I HAD it, and #2 my turkeys were small enough to get thru the higher/harger hog panel holes if they wanted to.) No complaints yer though It has worked great. BUT it will be warm weather soon and I would really prefer not to have snakes inside! (We have rattle snakes and bull snakes. Rattle snakes are just all around undesirable! Bull snakes will eat eggs.