Wood & Hog Wire Fence

We are moving to the country! We are so blessed to be moving to my husband's childhood home and farm. Yes there will be chickens. I did not grow up this way despite actually living on a ranch until 3rd grade and having horses curtosy of my grandparents. We were a sports focused family growing up and didn't live the farm/ranch life. The first thing that we needed to build is a fence, mostly for our dogs but also to contain our 6 month old daughter once she's on the move. There is a busy farm to market road in the front of the house that I want to keep the dogs and eventually a walking baby away from. I've heard too many "I looked away for one second and (insert bad thing that happened here)" to not have a fence to make sure she can't wonder off into the road when I inevitably look away for that one second.

On to the fence. We initially assumed chainlink would the cheapest and easiest option and it would have probably been the easiest. However, I wanted to price out some other options to make sure chainlink made the most sense. We didn't want to spend too much becuase part of the fence may eventually need to be moved due to large house renovations that might happen in the future. But, I do not like the look of chainlink. It turned out that chainlink isn't drastrically cheaper than some other options. We settled on a wood and hog wire fence. I think the wire panels we used are actually goat panels, but I don't think google pulls up what we built when you search goat panel. This is a little bit more expensive than chainlink but only by a few hundred dollars.