What is Chicken Wire?

Chicken wire is named poultry mesh or hexagonal wire netting. It is used in garden for small bird protection, or as poultry or small animals housing. And it is used in agricultural. According to the materials, it comes in three types: galvanized chicken wire mesh, stainless steel wire netting, PVC coated green wire netting.

Galvanized wire chicken mesh is mainly used in the garden for bird protection. In which, 13 mm hole is used to make fruit cages and sculpture, 25-50 mm hole for poultry enclosures, garden borders and bird protection, 31-50 mm hole for rabbit protection.
PVC Coated check wire is used in the garden or agricultural use. Its core wire is 17 or 19 gauge galvanized wire.
Stainless steel chicken mesh can be made to poultry or small animals housing, or used in agricultural, walkways, wooden bridges. It also can be placed under a lawn to protect against gophers and moles.


You can skip this section if you’re already familiar with chicken wire and know the differences between it and hardware cloth.
Chicken wire is a mesh fencing traditionally used to confine poultry. But it has a variety of uses from poultry wire to rock-fall barrier and from craft applications to reinforced wire mesh.
The chicken wire that we are familiar with is thin (usually 18 or 20 gauge) flexible wire that is woven into a hexagonal netting pattern. Us chicken owners love it for this reason and how easy it to trim the right amount you want
It is relatively cheap and easy to work with so that makes it attractive to many new chicken keepers.

Although it takes its name from its traditional use in poultry raising, we now use chicken wire in landscaping in many ways. For instance, chicken wire can be used to reinforce concrete.
A more widespread use for chicken wire in landscaping is in organic pest control measures. Most commonly, chicken wire is used as fencing to encircle a garden area to keep out pests that would eat your plants. To keep out pests that can dig, note that you have to bury a portion of the chicken wire, as detailed in this article on rabbit-proof fences. Likewise, bury the bottom part of chicken wire fencing that you install around the perimeter of a garden to keep out groundhogs a good 6 inches down.


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