ALABAMA!!

[Bama1]

My 3 month old roo got killed today. Looks like a dog broke in his little roo pen. It was not as sturdy as the hens pen. He's my avatar. Now I only have 4 hens. I have hatching eggs coming soon though.

 

[Wisher1000]

Bama1, I hate to tell you this, but what ever got your roo will be back. It's time to reinforce the hen's coop and make sure it's next trip is unsuccessful (or even deadly.)

 

[Bama1]

It did. It is a young German Shepard mix. I will call animal control since I am in the city. Hens should be good. Did them up much better. He was in a makeshift pen until I decided if he would be my hens roo or dinner.

 

[ihavechickens2]

Not exactly "close to Jemison" I am in N. Jefferson Co. But I will have mottled.

were at in jefferson Co. how much will you be selling them for?

 

[Tomtommom]

Sorry to hear about your rooster. That my worst fear.. that and neighborhood kids...

We've been sinking the first timbers for the run so I got an outline down basically. It looks nice, but I can already see spots I'm going to throw extra money at, to prevent dogs from digging in.

 

[huntinwidow]

They will be $4 ea. as straight run day olds.
Closest town is Trafford.

 

[Wisher1000]

Sorry to hear about your rooster. That my worst fear.. that and neighborhood kids...

We've been sinking the first timbers for the run so I got an outline down basically. It looks nice, but I can already see spots I'm going to throw extra money at, to prevent dogs from digging in.

Here is what I did to keep dogs and yotes from digging in.....

The upright shown represents the posts and there is a board along the bottom that the wire is fastened to. I attached wire to the bottom board and ran it out and a bit down and allowed it to fill in with time. You could put some rocks on top of it if you have some, but once dirt covers the wire and grass grows over it, there will be no need for rocks. The diagram says hardware cloth, and that would be best, but I used 2x4 welded wire and it has stood up to three serious attempts by large dogs!

you can kinda' see the ditch I dug and the bottom boards in this pic...

 

[Bama1]

We did that too with the hens pen, put wire around the edge under ground. The place I am really worried about now is where the pen connects to the coop at the pop door.

 

[Bama1]

We did that too with the hens pen, put wire around the edge under ground. The place I am really worried about now is where the pen connects to the coop at the pop door.

 

[Tomtommom]

Nice coop, Wisher. Making something similar to yours. Although I am putting the actual "coop" part as a second floor in 1/4 of it, to maximize square footage that way. Eh, I'll show y'all when it's done. I'm terrible at explaining

I'd hate to buy more hardware cloth, but I'd also hate to lose birds to something so easilly prevented.. I do have a 4 foot chainlink fence all around my yard. My stupid dog Bobo is a fence jumper though (we even installed electric fence in their yard, so he jumps the gate

Now I have a shiny sheet of plywood proped up against the gate...) May just have to do some extra work and try to make a little more money so I can do it right!