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How to install chicken wire for chickens?

I am putting up a chicken run for my chickens, 5x5 feet. I have metal T-posts at each of the corners. Is that good enough or do I need more posts in between, such as those used for electric fencing? How do you stretch the wire so that it is taut? Thank you!

Public Comments

1. After growing up on a Chicken farm this is an easy task, relatively speaking. Certainly you should add posts. Yes you should anchor the fencing by some method, to the ground. (Chickens do dig; and can find there way OUT) Someone to help would help also, in that one stretches (by hand is fine; While the other hooks the fencing to the hooks on the posts. Chicken wire is NOT at all difficult to stretch and it need not be as tight as chain link. Besides a 5 x 5 is tiny. Forget middle posts; just anchor the wire between any post of area the ends are secured to. Steven Wolf
2. I would put some posts in between the corners.. Wooden stakes would be better that way you can staple the wire to them and keep it taut or just get pieces of copper wire and tie to the posts.. Have someone pull the wire taut as you tie it to the stakes.
3. Shouldnt a farmgirl know how to put up a TINY chicken pen? You should have learned that by the time you were 7 or 8. Just kidding, you should be just fine as long as you have sturdy corner posts and they are set in the ground far enough to keep them from bending when you stretch the wire.