On 6/25/2012 8:57 AM, Nancy2 wrote:
> On Jun 25, 9:53 am, >
> wrote:
>> On 6/25/2012 8:17 AM, John Kuthe wrote:
>>
>>> Years ago my father made chicken wire chimneys to protect his tom,atos
>>> from maurading squirrels and it worked wonderfully! He made hooks out
>>> of the chicken wire to keep the cylindrical chimneys closed and he'd
>>> unhook then to open the chimney abnd harvest the tomatos. We had a
>>> prodigeous amount of non-squirrel-eaten-on tomatoes that year!
>>
>> I have yet to meet a squirrel that couldn't get most if not all of
>> itself through the relatively large openings of chicken wire. Rat wire,
>> on the other hand, will keep out everything of the rodent persuasion.
>
> A squirrel could not get through the holes in the chicken wire I have.

My bad. If you're talking about the 1" and smaller chicken wire, an
adult squirrel would not be able to squish itself down enough to fit all
the way through. I'm not so sure about young squirrels not being able to
poke their mouthparts through 1" wire, but even the most crafty and
compressible rodent would have a hard time carrying its groceries back
out through it.