Designing a portable pen for rotation with organic garden beds...

[AliciaDuckLady]

Hello,

As the mother of three lovely ducks in suburbia it has become neccessary to build a better system to graze our girls. At the moment we have a fully enclosed pen at the back of the yard with a duck house within. Shown on my profile pic.the grass is long gone though, thus the need to rotate the yard. I need to upgrade to some sort of enclosed fencing system that I can move around easily, over the garden beds as well. I'm thinking timber frames with wire that I can bolt or even cable tie together to create a flexible pen system? For the roof I have been using bird netting to prevent sea eagles in the area having any chance for attack. If anyone has done similar or could direct me to some resources please Would love to use recycled materials and for it to be simple, I'm not the best at building...yet Thank you!

 

[appps]

I will be watching this thread with interest. I want to do something similar with my chickens and my vege patch. Thinking its a good spot to put a broody chook. Might as well still be making use of them

I was thinking an A frame out of timber that I could sit over the raised garden bed.

 

[AliciaDuckLady]

Great, I have seen many a chicken tractor but would like this to be a bit more flexible and modular. Will be sketching up some ideas soon, then onto the build. I have about six weeks until it needs to be done for the new ducklings. This could turn out interesting or hilarious

 

[appps]

I want mine to be used both over a bed but also to be able to go on the grass if I haven't got a bed ready for them to scratch in.

I've got some old lattice frame timber I thought if try and recycle.