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Mary Fisher  
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 More options 30 Mar 2008, 10:53
Newsgroups: uk.rec.gardening
From: "Mary Fisher" <mary.fis...@zetnet.co.uk>
Date: Sun, 30 Mar 2008 10:53:37 +0100
Local: Sun 30 Mar 2008 10:53
Subject: Re: Linking chicken wire

"Nick Maclaren" <n...@cus.cam.ac.uk> wrote in message

news:fsnmln$rtt$1@gemini.csx.cam.ac.uk...

> 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.

I wondered that too.

It would be a very hungry fox which would bite through our chicken wire, so
hungry it probably wouldn't have the strength. Not that I've ever known a
fox eat a chicken, here they've only killed them :-(

> And are you sure that it is foxes and not badgers making the initial
> entry?  Badgers like eggs, after all :-)

They will eat chickens too.

Mary


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