I got alot done today- photos, and questions

[wannabchick]

I added on to the exsisting run, so my peafowl will have their own area, I put up the t-post and the 6 foot welded wire, and the harware cloth in someareas, and poultry wire in others.. I used what I had on hand. I ordered the netting and still trying to figure out what I should use to raise it up over the tree/the tree is about 11-12 foot at heighest peak?????????????? conduit pipes?, wood 2x4 attached to the tree with cross beams at the top to hold up the netting even better, wood post sunk and concreted in ground, round timber post sunken and concreted..Theirs a guy you sells, wood timber ..cedar round post/ for 16 foot a post , 10 inch diameter for 10.00

And my biggest issue, how to get the netting over it all??????? with raised post etc any Ideas would be greatly appreciated.

Before adding new area/Heres a shot from facing the back of my poultry village..hehehe, also, the paneled run, I moved the gate openings, so I can now walk into the run, and go thru another gate to enter the peafowl area or leave the gate open for one larger run.

And now with the added run area... almost there.. almost there.. ohhhhhhhhhhhh darn thats right I must build them some kind of shelter... Okay, mmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmn.. and cheap????????????? mmmmmnnn.. Ideas appreciated

Here you can see how the Tpost fence is coming off and around the exsisting run

xoxoxooxoxxo

 

[ColbyNTX]

Looking good so far! I would get the 16' cedar posts and sink them 18" in the ground and concrete them in the ground. About 4 post should be fine but I would space them, 1 by the fence next to the tree, 1 on the other side of the tree and 2 more the rest of the pen lenigth. Then connect the top of all them with pressure treated 2X6's. You could get some kind of push pole, like an 8', 2X4 with a piece of square wood screwed to the end to pick the net up and over the center support. You may need more support than what I mentioned but in my part of Texas, we don't get much snow.

 

[wannabchick]

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Awesome idea..what's a push pole?

Or I could just screw into the cross beams, another 2x4 ..and like you said screw something onto that flat,

Or screw a round wood ball on it

Thanks again so much

 

[ColbyNTX]

A push pole is what us East Texas/West Louisiana red necks use to push the pirogue down the bayou! It's a big, long pole with a duck foot on the end so it will push the pirogue through the swamp mud. I think you get the idea. You just need some kind of pole you can push it up but won't poke through the net holes.

 

[wannabchick]

And to think I was a Texas girl..and didn't have a clue what you were speaking of..lol

 

[ColbyNTX]

Are you a Texas gal? I didn't think anybody ever moved from here! He must have been very special!!!!

 

[C&Rman]

WOW!!! Looks real good. What is the total size of it?

 

[wannabchick]

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And when I did live in Houston..it was a guy, very very good..hehehehehe

That is why iam here...hehehhee

 

[wannabchick]

C&Rman :

WOW!!! Looks real good. What is the total size of it?

It's confusing lol, you should see me trying to figure it out..heheh

Exsisting area already finished, was 20 x 15 chickens, and peafowl if they choose to enter 300 sq feet

Now the new area- peafowl

16x10 - 160
Then 21 x25-525


Total altogether now, what is that 1000 sq feet?

Wow u just made me figure it all out

My math might be wrong..lol


Oh I am asked also so for future reference
New run area, 109.00$ for 2x4 wire
Tpost- 60.00
Poultry wire-30.00 and I used existing hardware cloth too, so what I did use was probably 50.00 worth
Netting I spent 99.00

Total when done 500.00 because I still need to add a shelter of some sort

Xoxoxoxo

Why do I keep reading 2,000 .00. Yes it would if my shelter is a penthouse..hehehe

Xoxox​

 

[kuntrygirl]

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Pirogue? Now you're talking my language.