Alex Briffett » house http://www.briffett.net Life is just a state of mind Wed, 17 Feb 2010 14:21:19 +0000 en hourly 1 http://wordpress.org/?v=3.0 Chicken Coop http://www.briffett.net/2009/05/12/6/ http://www.briffett.net/2009/05/12/6/#comments Tue, 12 May 2009 21:01:26 +0000 Alex Briffett http://www.briffett.net/?p=6 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

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

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

Custom built chicken run

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