Chicken wire

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Chicken wire

Chicken wire, or poultry netting, is a mesh of wire, generally used for making fences. It is made of thin, flexible galvanized wire, with hexagonal gaps of Available in 1 inch (about 2.5 cm) diameter,2 inch (about 5 cm)and 1/2 inch (about 1.3 cm) Chicken wire is available in various wire gauges usually 19g (about 1mm wire) to 22 gauge (about 0.7mm wire)

Chicken wire is also used as a matrix to hold cement or plaster, in a process known as stuccoing.

It can also be used as a security measure in musical venues to protect the musicians from things being thrown from the audience, as seen in the 1980 film The Blues Brothers.

Psychologist Harry Harlow used chicken wire to create "surrogate mothers" for rhesus monkeys. In experiments, the wire "mothers" tended to inspire less affection than cloth "mothers" despite being equipped with "nipples" supplying milk.

In chemistry, molecules with fused carbon rings are often compared to chicken wire — see chicken wire (chemistry).

In photonics, the chicken-wire effect is a predominant pattern of low transmission lines between multifiber bundles in a fiberoptic used to couple the intensifier tube to the CCD sensor. The lines have a pattern similar to that of chicken wire.

For many years, chicken wire was thought to have been the best source for containing flocks of chickens(hence the name, chicken wire), but new research and technologies have provided for much stronger, and durable means of enclosure, such as welded wire. Chicken wire, having such a small gauge, is found to be too flimsy. While it keeps the average chicken from escaping, it shows to be a bad source for keeping out predators, such as opposum, skunk, and commonly dogs as well.