Message from discussion Linking chicken wire

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From: n...@cus.cam.ac.uk (Nick Maclaren)
Newsgroups: uk.rec.gardening
Subject: Re: Linking chicken wire
Date: 30 Mar 2008 09:31:35 GMT
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In article <47eed146$0$13247$5a62a...@per-qv1-newsreader-01.iinet.net.au>,
"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
gloved hands up to stuff that I need wire-cutters for.

A mistake that people may be making is to use the very lightweight
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
entry?  Badgers like eggs, after all :-)


Regards,
Nick Maclaren.