deer feeder, chicken wire, squirrel

[9452772]

Will chicken wire keep out squirrel's? I have a homemade cage around my feeder for the coons but the squirrel get in and chew the sides of the little funnel before the spinner and dump all the corn. I do not mind if the corn is not thrown very far so if it drops straight down then no big deal. Any thoughts?

[gtsticker]

Get 1" square mesh. They will crawl through chicken wire

[9452772]

Sounds good. I will get some and wrap the feeder up.

[dustoffer]

Make the cage the same diameter as the barrel and come at least 6" below the feeder box. I attach mine with a ratchet strap--makes it easy to take off to do feeder work if necessary.

[Fishndude]

As mentioned above, 1" square mesh is the ticket. It's somewhat overkill but I'm a fan of overkill.

[Big pig]

I built a lot of cages, but the store bought ones from Ultramatic are nice and come with a trap door to have access to the timer. Keeps the birds off the trays too.
I have said it here a dozen times: 40" PVC pipes around the legs suspended by light chains to allow spinning have eliminated my squirrel and coon problems, but I use the cages anyway. I have thousands of photos of squirrels and coons underneath, but none on the cages.

BP