galvanized Chicken wire

galvanized Chicken wire is a mesh fencing used to confine poultry. Composed of galvanized wire, chicken wire holds up well to the elements. When digging on old home sites, you'll often unearth chicken wire used decades ago on the property.

Besides durability, chicken wire boasts flexibility and is easy to cut. It can be more difficult to cut and install types fencing with much heavier gauges.

Although it takes its name from its traditional use in poultry raising, we now use chicken wire in many ways. For instance, chicken wire can be used to reinforce concrete. Folks with a bent for crafts make chicken-wire Christmas balls by rolling chicken wire into a ball and attaching Christmas lights to it.

Most commonly, chicken wire is used as fencing to encircle a garden area, thereby keeping out pests that would eat your plants.

The hexagonal gaps in chicken wire range from 1/2 inch to 2 inches. If you are trying to keep out rodents as small as meadow mice, it's best to select the 1/2-inch type of chicken wire.

Besides enclosing gardens with chicken wire, people also encircle individual shrubs with it, as winter protection against pests. Just drive 3 or 4 stakes into the ground around the shrub to build a framework, then unroll the chicken wire across the outside of this framework. The unrolling will go easier if you stabilize one end of the chicken wire first by fastening it to one of the stakes, using twist ties.