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Chicken Coop
I bought a chicken coop with a view to keeping 3 chickens and we adopted three ex-battery hens. The manufacturers of the coop suggested it was big
Building fox-proof base for chicken coup
enough for up to 4. I considered this a little mean, so decided to extend their coop by building a chicken run. I fox-proofed the coop by digging a hole about a foot deep underneath it and placed a wooden frame underlaid with chicken wire and placed the coop back on top.
A hen enjoying new chicken run
I did the same for the chicken run itself and used 2 by 2 wood which I coated in wood preserver. The wood was tanelised but reckoned that every little helps. The run itself required 5 frames of timber covered in chicken wire and I screwed this together over the top of the sunken frame.
It required about £40 worth of timber, £25 worth of chicken wire (just over 20 metres) and around 200 screws. I suppose nails would have done just as well.
Custom built chicken run
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May 13th, 2009 - 08:11
Lovely run, I was wondering why it was so tall but then I realised you’ve got to be able to get in there too!
May 13th, 2009 - 08:29
Yes, originally I was going to make it wider but less high, then realised it would be really uncomfortable cleaning it out on my hands and knees.
May 13th, 2009 - 08:51
Are thems chickens for eating?
May 13th, 2009 - 09:12
No way. They are pets. The idea is that they should lay us lots of nice eggs but currently they are either not doing that or are laying them but eating them. I am going to try a few tricks to get them to stop eating the eggs.
May 13th, 2009 - 12:30
Try ping pong balls that’ll get’um broody. And grass, its like giving a woman flowers. But remember they will eat any grass seed.
May 14th, 2009 - 14:19
I really enjoyed Chicken Run and thought Mel Gibson was a great choice for playing the voice of Rocky Rhodes the Rhode Island Red Rooster.
May 15th, 2009 - 08:58
Really nice chicken run, looks smart – and a brilliant way of incorporating Permaculture into an urban/suburban setting. More people should do it!
May 18th, 2009 - 08:24
Excellent :0) My mother get great pleasure from her rescued chickens. They will lay once they have settled down