How big of an area are you going to fence in?
How big, or what type of dogs do you have?
When I priced a 4 foot tall chainlink fence, I was shocked at how much the materials added up to when you figured it all out.
I have 5 Akitas. The boys are 114 and 115 pounds. They are not great at jumping, but they do like to stand on their back legs and try to climb over the fence, or just bark at whatever is outside the fence. Most of the time they just run along the fence, chasing the chickens on the other side of the fence.
So far, I have three pastures for my dogs. The Big Yard is 300 feet long and about 100 feet wide. Then I have the Oak Garden, which is about 5,000 sq feet, and the Puppy Area, which is 30x50.
For the Big Yard and Oak Garden, I used 2x4 welded wire, wood posts and metal T posts. I did this back in 2015 and it's held up OK, but not great and I would not do it again. We have plans to make the Yard bigger and I will be using a woven fence. Probably goat wire. I wont use T posts again either. I don't feel that they are the best way to do this, so I will use treated wood posts for all of it. The Oak Garden is where we separate our older girl from the two female puppies. She is pretty easy going, but will snap when bothered too much and it can get ugly. We just don't chance it anymore. She is 92 pounds and the puppies are 6 months old and 76, 62 pounds.
The Puppy Area was originally created to keep the puppies mom away from our male boys when she is in heat. For this, I went with horse panels that are stapled to wooden posts, and then three 2x6 treated boards over the welded panels. Then I dug a ditch under the panels and filled it with concrete. It's as strong a barrier as I could think of, and it's proven to be effective. I later added astro turf when we had puppies back in February.
I also have plans to cut the Big Yard in half so we can keep them all out of the back porch area. Eventually we expect our 4 year old Grandson to want to have friends over for parties. We have a small pool and playground that they will enjoy. It's just easier to let the kids run wild and not have to deal with the dogs getting in the way.
Then I have an area where I hope to build a kennel, that will also have its own fencing in an area of about 10,000 square feet. This wall all be done in the woven wire fence, and wood posts. No more T posts, no more rolls of welded wire. I'll probably use welded goat panels for the close areas because we might have issues between two dogs that would make me feel better have the extra strength.
Raiden, one of the big boys at the back fence when he smells wild hogs. He hates hogs and goes crazy when they are around.
