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[Christopher Kennel <ckennel@gmail.com>]

I get my fencing products from Stockyards Ranch Supply in Commerce City,
CO.  I live in Denver, so it's one of the closest ranch supply stores for
me.  I got the pricing wrong, it's $24.90 for the 18" but only $16.90 for
the 12".  They have many more sizes, and if 2" hexagonal spaces work for you
(as opposed to 1" ones), the prices are even cheaper.  You can see their
catalog here: http://www.stockyardsupply.com/  What I refer to as chicken
wire is more accurately called poultry netting.

They've also had the best deal in town on concrete remesh (useful for making
tomato cages and some espalier applications), but this spring they raised
their remesh prices a bit.  Prior to the price increase a 5'x150' roll was
about $68 while it was near $100 at Home Depot.

Most of you probably know this, but for those who don't, I've found that
ranch and farm supply stores are much better places to shop for fencing,
trellising, and other post and wire related products than big box stores
are.  That said, for stakes to hold my chicken wire in place, I use 1/2"
galvanized EMT conduit which costs about $2 per 10' length at big box
stores.  Just cut and/or bend it into whatever length or shape you need.
For my strawberries I bend it into U shapes that are wide enough to cross
the bed.  The actual shape consists of 3 straight sides with 90 degree turns
between them.  Each leg of the U goes into the ground about a foot, the
above ground vertical portions receive the chicken wire via cable ties, and
the horizontal portion helps keep the bird netting off the top of my
plants.  I use clothes pins to hold the bird netting in place, but I don't
usually install the bird netting until I have ripe berries to protect.

All the best,
Chris Kennel
Denver, CO



On Sat, Jun 4, 2011 at 6:45 PM, Dan Nave <nave1@comcast.net> wrote:

> That sounds awfully cheap for chicken wire.  Where can you buy it at that
> price?
>
> Also, if the snow is deep in winter, you may have to trample it down around
> the fence, or shovel, or
> the rabbits will go right over.
> In the summer, 12" fence seems to be fine, but in winter they seem to jump
> right over it...
>
> Dan
>
> On 6/4/2011 11:15 AM, Christopher Kennel wrote:
> > I should have mentioned that this year I decided to give up on trapping
> > rabbits and just fence off plantings with chicken wire.  12" or 18" rolls
> > with 1" spaces seem to work fine and are pretty affordable at farm supply
> > stores.  I think a 150' 18" roll cost me about $22.
> >
> > Chris Kennel
> > Denver, CO
> > zone 5
> >
> > On Sat, Jun 4, 2011 at 6:35 AM,<Jwlehman@aol.com>  wrote:
> >
> >> In a message dated 6/3/2011 7:59:31 PM Eastern Daylight Time,
> >> 6ducks@gmail.com writes:
> >>
> >>> what works for rabbits?
> >>>
> >> I personally don't have much experience trapping rabbits. But my
> neighbor
> >> some years back had about 40 acres fenced in where he kept field rabbits
> >> for
> >> training rabbit dogs. Hawks were his worst problem and he need to
> >> continually replenish them. He used rabbit traps baited with salt and
> corn.
> >> I
> >> cheerfully let him place traps on my acreage and he was successful!
>  Salt&
> >> field
> >> corn.
> >>
> >> In case any rabbit huggers read this, he had shelters and many brush
> piles
> >> for the rabbits to hide in.  He also had feeding stations, water holes
> and
> >> salt stations for them. They were treated well, just occasionally they
> had
> >> to
> >> run from the dogs. He never shot them. They were almost in rabbit
> heaven.
> >> They faired better there with his dogs then here with my coyotes.
> >>
> >> Jerry
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