The raccoons will be back.

They have to use shoddy materials and cut corners on design as well. Despite all our technological gains, most of the products we interact with on a daily basis are inferior to the ones our parents used thirty years ago.

I don't know if it's because they're using a different galvanization process or what, but it doesn't last long. If they're going to make it that cheaply, they could at least put instructions on the roll. "Use whatever you're going to use now, because in two months this roll is going to rust into a lump."

Edited to add: I don't actually have chickens, but I build the coops/pens for my parents, and I've started making them in layers. An inner layer of rectangular galvanized fencing to keep the possums/racoons out, and an outer layer of the really flimsy deer/bird netting with the small square holes to keep snakes out. The latter means they occasionally have to free a corn/hognose that got stuck in it, but it also regularly traps/kills moccasins and rattlesnakes. They try to force their way through it and can't, then they can't back out of it.

I really like your idea, and will pass it on to Mr. Dixie.
He found a very big rat snake trying to grab an egg in a nest. thise damn things get 6 feet easily.
Netting and dog wire does make sense down here.
Thanks...