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  1. Davaroo

    Building the ideal chicken run

    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...
  2. Davaroo

    Building the ideal chicken run

    Quote: 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...
  3. Davaroo

    Building the ideal chicken run

    Quote: 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...
  4. Davaroo

    Building the ideal chicken run

    Quote: 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...
  5. Davaroo

    Building the ideal chicken run

    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...
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