Newsgroups: uk.rec.gardening
From: "FarmI" <ask@itshall be given>
Date: Mon, 31 Mar 2008 14:23:15 +1100
Local: Mon 31 Mar 2008 04:23
Subject: Re: Linking chicken wire
"Nick Maclaren" <n...@cus.cam.ac.uk> wrote in message It is a lighter guage stuff that was used for the outer pen - the inner > "FarmI" <ask@itshall be given> writes: > |> "TC" <con...@gmail.com> wrote in message > |> > |> > I've been told that some animals can bite through chicken wire > |> > |> Foxes round here will get through it. They must rake it repeatedly > with > |> their claws till it breaks. they certainly have managed to break into > my > |> outer pen on multiple occasions. > What gauge? Chicken wire comes from gauges that I can tear with only night yard is a heavier guage but the sodding foxes broke the gate on one occasion and knocked off 11 birds in one night. I left the bodies and slit them open and stuffed snail bait into the carcase and the bodies disappearred aver about 3 nights. That cleared out a den on the creek where I knew there were at least 2 cubs. The light guage stuff surrounds about a quarter of an acre (also serves as As you can imagine with a fence of that area, I have been able to keep a The other thing the bozos did when they built the fence was that they didn't > A mistake that people may be making is to use the very lightweight Nope. It was foxes. We don't have badgers in Australia and there are no > stuff designs to keep part-grown chicks in as a fox barrier. I can > easily see that won't work. > And are you sure that it is foxes and not badgers making the initial dingos or uncontrolled pet dogs round here (they'd get shot). You must Sign in before you can post messages.
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