Thanks Pat - There are no other critters in the yard. Our 4 pound 14 year
old chihuahua won't bother the chicken wire. Thanks for the suggestion about
getting the 1"mesh, I never thought about the babies getting through the 2"
mesh. This is a project for tomorrow for sure. What did you use as stakes
to hold it up? Did you bury it at all in the ground. I am hopeing it will
just upset them enough to ignore trying to get in any other way.

Kathy

"Pat Meadows" wrote in message
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On Sun, 17 Aug 2003 16:37:44 GMT, "Kathy"
wrote:

Ok, it has come to putting up a chicken wire fence around my veggies. The
rabbits have left nothing but stems of my green beans. How high, and what
size of chicken wire works best. I have just a small area to surround.
( 10'
x 8' ) Any suggestions would be greatly appreciated.

I even tried the hot sauce spray on the leaves and apparently they loved
it.


Kathy, be sure you get the chicken wire with 1" mesh - not
2" mesh. Baby rabbits can probably get through the larger
mesh, also it's not nearly as strong and tends to flop about
two much.

Chicken wire - at least here - comes in 2' and 3' heights
(and higher). But - for rabbits - higher isn't necessary.

I'd get the 3' height, thinking that it will also serve to
keep out cats, small-to-medium sized dogs, and maybe other
critters better than a 2' high fence.

We have two dogs - one's about 65 lbs and the other about 70
lbs. Neither has ever jumped 3' chicken wire, although I am
sure they could if they tried.

What they have done, though, was to put their front paws on
it and then put as much of their weight on it as they could,
and bend it down that way, then step over. We replaced it
with welded-wire fencing in a general fence re-arrangment.
But rabbits aren't going to do that.

Pat