This fence style is one I’ve been wanting to build for a while.  When the opportunity came up to build one for somebody, I was eager to get started.  I had built a custom chicken coop for these homeowners last year but after a year of having chickens, the poop and mess was becoming an issue across their backyard and patio so the homeowners wanted a fence to keep the chickens contained in one particular area of the yard.  Enter StuffSethMakes.

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I’ve recently finished a bunch of redwood with hogwire garden trellises for our backyard. I made a whole video on the build, and it’s a fairly simple build if you have some basic tools. I hope you’ll give it a watch, and if you like it, give it a thumbs up/comment/subscribe. I appreciate you all!

I started by taking a measurement to see how long the fence needed to be.  Height also needed to be considered because the chickens can actually jump pretty high.  Based on the measurements, function and style, the following is what I came up with using Google Sketchup:

The design quickly got the homeowner’s approval and I went to work picking up the redwood fence materials, concrete, gate hardware and of course, the welded wire hog fence product.  I LOVE this hog fence/welded wire stuff.  It’s thick and sturdy and it looks really cool and it’s not the cheap galvanized stuff.  The hole pattern on this particular welded wire fencing is the 3-inch hole pattern, which is actually about 2.8-inches when you take into account the thickness of the metal.  Being a one of a kind custom build, there were a couple little obstacles to overcome but a little brainstorming and problem solving and the job is done and it looks awesome and does exactly what it’s supposed to do.  Over time, the redwood will weather (even with the Thompson’s Water Seal product I used) and the metal fence will rust, giving it a really cool look.  I also used a spring-loaded gate latch cable pull for easy unlatching.  In the last photo you can see the chicken coop I built for these homeowners last year.  Still going strong and the chickens are popping out more eggs than they know what to do with!  🙂  Enjoy the photos!

Quick Update:

I recently built some garden trellises for my wife using this same hogwire and redwood style. I built the trellises as an anniversary gift and the redwood I used was from a raised garden bed we weren’t going to use anymore. You can see the build in the following video…feel free to use the time stamps in the video description to jump to the trellis build! You can also subscribe to my YouTube channel as I will be having more hogwire projects coming in the near future.

PLEASE NOTE:

This fence was a custom build for this particular space.  I do not offer build plans or Sketchup files for this fence (for free or for sale), or provide specific measurement/dimensions/etc.

If you’re in SoCal and you’re interested in hiring me to build a custom fence like this one for your space, be sure to use my contact page and shoot over an inquiry with details about your project and we can go from there.  Serious inquiries only.  Thanks!

If you’re interested in seeing another awesome DIY backyard project, check out this pergola build I helped my father-in-law with….it’s so nice to have shade in his backyard now. Click this text to jump out to the video or click on the thumbnail below!