Good to meet you RodneyRooster ... welcome back. And your girls must be super happy to have laid so quickly in their new surrounds.
Your photos have solved a problem I thought I might have, if ever I house 3 more chickens in with Mindy Araucana. ... how to provide adequate roosting space. Great idea to lean the roost support at an angle, and then attach the roosting poles. Thank you.
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Sidhe13 ... had a good giggle at the chat you had to have with Rooster. He was doing a good job though, no matter what. I have no rooster, thus I have heaps of wild birds a-visitin'.
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Re Foxes : .... there are plenty up around Upwey. Hubby saw what he called a 'massive' fox crossing the road back to his/her den at 4 a.m. last week. "Looked as big as a German Shepherd" ( I privately thought it might well have been a German shepherd, but said nothing more at the time - he was being helpful to let me know ). I know they are around for sure - but I always leave one lot of dog woopsies in the back garden - the smell of a dog puts the foxes off ( so I believe ). And I lock my girls up to such a degree that they cannot get out until I let them out - and a fox could not get in - concreted flooring, wood all round and small bird wire on the latched doors for ventilation. Nest boxes lockable, and a variety of doo-dads on the doors to keep rain out, keep the plastic covering from flapping in the wind. My coops are not the prettiest of sights !!
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Thoughts for all who have lost a chicken or rooster recently .... RIP to the poor wee souls who have lost their lives, and condolences to their owners. ( there seem to have been quite a few, and apologies - am pressed for time today, and cannot go back through dozens of items to find out who has lost members of their flocks. ). Would be awful to get names incorrect by using my memory ( which is not the crash-hottest on the best of days !! ).
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Take care everyone - have a lovely sunny weekend. Even Victoria is to get low 20's next few days ( so they say)
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The giant fox thing is possible. We have a monster who patrols the front of us on the street, I've seen him more than once. I don't know how they get that big, but yes, nearly the size of a German shepherd and mote orange than red. The one out the back - who I think must be his lady friend? - is a classic story book fox, red, dainty, black points, white face, no bigger than a cat.
yep i use 2 pine posts (untreated as theyre inside and better for them) and just have the right sized big sticks attached as the roosts as its more natural 
I like Fred & Wilma for a couple.
