Ive moved two years past and now have a small Low area in my yard. It fills to an inch or so with water during really severe rains. I stuck a small kitchen garden there without realizing this, simply as an expedient.
But the spot is not a dead zone... grasses and weeds flourish there, and it...
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You got it right on the below ground wire. How to bury it? Theres a special tool made just for the job - called a shovel.
And, yes, it encircles the entire run. Digging predators have plenty of time and will try many places to get in.
Fabric is shade fabric, the open weave poly cloth...
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Ok, well, let me rephrase it then... wouldn't it be great for the chickens, since they will (evidently) be shut into the coop at night, to have a PART OF THE COOP (since you don't want to call it a run ) that was basically open-air and sunshine, but just as well protected as the...
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But in an ideal world, even if you have that wouldn't it be great to ALSO have a run TOO? So that when it's not safe for the birds to be just wandering loose (e.g. having a predator or fence problem that day) they can still be more or less out in the fresh air. Also lets you lock them...
My ideal? Not a run at all.
Instead a paddock, broken into quadrants with 200-400 sq ft/bird.
This area would be covered in tri-sections with ladino cover, kentucky grass and amaranth and sunflower stands where the birds live for one season, one section to lay in nitrogenous rejuvenating...