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JazzDad
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Chicken Wire. Poultry Netting.
      07/05/07 08:11 AM
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Call it what you will: how do you stretch this stuff enough to make it look good? I roll it out and it's all wavy. When I pull on it, the pattern starts to deform but the waves remain.


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Bird
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Re: Chicken Wire. Poultry Netting. new [re: JazzDad]
      07/05/07 08:20 AM
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It's been so many years since I did anything with chicken wire that I'd forgotten about that, but now that you mention it, that's the same luck I usually had.

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egon
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Re: Chicken Wire. Poultry Netting. new [re: Bird]
      07/05/07 02:01 PM
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I'fn I recall you have to use a full width board for stretching the wire evenly and then nail at every post.

Egon

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tessiers
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Re: Chicken Wire. Poultry Netting. new [re: JazzDad]
      06/15/08 07:17 PM
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I have stopped using poultry netting at all anymore. It not only deforms but after a year or so I have problems with the wires breaking and birds getting out. I have gone to welded wire for my cages and pens. 2x4 welded wire for larger birds is only about $6.00 more per 3'x50' roll. I use 1"x2" for smaller birds, and that is a little more expensive. I have used it for 3 years now with no broken wires.

Just my 2 cents, I have wasted a lot of time finding and fixing holes in my chicken run only to find more chickens out within a few days.

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eccentricfarmer
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Re: Chicken Wire. Poultry Netting. new [re: tessiers]
      06/26/08 02:38 PM
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Be about the same way to stretch woven wire for live stock fence except using a tractor for fence traction.

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