LOL @ 'higgledy-piggledy'. That is exactly what our entire yard is! Sorry I didn't reply sooner but I kinda forgot about this thread as there's been so much else going on and I've been posting all over the 'Incubation' section about humidity, which is one of my favourite topics for giving long...
Heheheh... No, it wasn't the gherkins... I was on night shift last night and I've been asleep most of the day. Forgot to check this post when I came in this morning at 9am. Sorry. I love the pond graphic. Is that a bridge over the middle? Sadly I don't think the OH would be up for landscaping...
DMRippy - Thanks for your photos. Everything I see gives me more ideas for my own pens!
Kuntrygirl - Excellent link! I hadn't seen that thread before. Loads more ideas to think about...
Right, here's a rough drawing of the space I have available - from our last planning application for another shed. Scale 1:100...
I've marked on it the two possible sites for what I'm planning. The top one in the field would be easier, cause it's flat and level and not full of junk.
The lower...
Wow! That's a really smart plan there! I knew there'd be stuff I just wasn't thinking of...
So you've got cover down the middle for egg collecting in the rain, with the nesting boxes jutting out into the middle walkway, you don't need to go into each run, the covered bit also protects the...
Yeah, I'm really wanting to keep away from those tiny little coop-and-run combos and chicken ark type of things. 'Suitable for 6 chickens' my ar*e! I wouldn't keep a small guinea pig in most of them, never mind a pile of chooks...
I was thinking of something along these lines:
I'd be...
I'm looking for advice on how best to set up several breeding pens and maybe a bachelor pad as well.
Up until now I've just kept one big free range mixed flock of about 30 birds, with two roosters and another two hens of the same breed in there. Any time I wanted to hatch their eggs, it was...