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Linking chicken wire
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From: "Mary Fisher" <mary.fis...@zetnet.co.uk>
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Subject: Re: Linking chicken wire
Date: Sun, 30 Mar 2008 10:53:37 +0100
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"Nick Maclaren" <n...@cus.cam.ac.uk> wrote in message
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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.
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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