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Lessons Learned by Moving From City to Farm: Plastic is Awesome
The problem is that plastic is fabricated as a single use product/container by major corporations and we have been educated that plastic should be used that way. Its an education problem and if we, as consumers, don’t start to change our way to use it as a daily-use product, this will never change.
What was the cost of the extruded plastic chicken wire, vs the metal kind?
No matter how careful I am, I always get cut up when installing chicken wire. And Very small keets can still squeeze through, or when bigger, they start through and get stuck. I ended up using the extruded fence with the smaller squares. I also learned that 18 keets can disappear very fast. The hens are so protective but careless and lose their babies. They also sound too much like dog squeaky toys! We kept out last hatching inside the coop and enclosed run until they
i keep the zip ties intact and remove them with a shim , for temp stuff its great. I do have to say that wearing a pair of gloves an having wire twisting pliers https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=CU-NAX7vwfY does kinda solve the issue , and let you use the metal wire. Having worked and lived on a farm, reusing things is common, one day your fencing in chickens, the next your growing peas on the mesh, so im not sure if the plastic is as reusable, but i could be wrong.
I think it's great to read an appreciation of plastic. The alternatives are often far less efficient and far more wasteful, if one bothers to do a thorough analysis.
Glad to see you used the black over the white. The black tend to last a lot longer in outdoor applications.
Probably cause cutting the tails and throwing them away would generate more trash AND lefting it there would be a spit to keep the dogs away(?).