Creative carpentry to the rescue!

Fencing is a great way to keep things out or in, depending on your point of view.  In many cases, we love to tear down fencing, as it helps create a more shared space between neighbors, which certainly builds better neighbor relations.  However, sometimes we need to build a fence to help protect our friends, be they of the feathered or the four-legged variety. 

For this project we built a hog wire fence to help contain chickens in the backyard, which provides a much safer environment for them. The client also wanted to protect her plants from her scratching hens by installing an arbor.  This approach allowed her to net out the chickens, while providing her climbing vegetables and plants with a bike wheel trellis and arbor to climb. It looks great and compliments her clapboard chicken coop.