Just about to build a run for our new adventure, but very confused about which product to use which will make it fox proof. Should it be chicken wire or rabbit wire? What size and what material? Can anyone recommend an on line supplier?
Chicken wire?
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What you are after is weld mesh at least 1mm or 19 gauge in thickness (the lower the gauge the thicker the wire) anything thinner and a fox can rip into it. The stuff marketed as chicken wire is so thin that it is quite frankly useless.
I built two 3.6m x 2.5m x 1.8m runs last summer and bought wire off these people on eBay, it was decent stuff and delivered quite quickly.
http://www.ebay.co.uk/itm/YELLOW-LABEL-GALVANIZED-WELD-MESH-1200mm-4ft-x-25mm-x-25mm-X-1-0mm-X-25m-/111869992836?hash=item1a0bf89f84:g:FV4AAOSw3ydVrku3
I built two 3.6m x 2.5m x 1.8m runs last summer and bought wire off these people on eBay, it was decent stuff and delivered quite quickly.
http://www.ebay.co.uk/itm/YELLOW-LABEL-GALVANIZED-WELD-MESH-1200mm-4ft-x-25mm-x-25mm-X-1-0mm-X-25m-/111869992836?hash=item1a0bf89f84:g:FV4AAOSw3ydVrku3
