Lookie what I did today!

[micstrachan]

Yeah, we’re on the other side of the hill, but still close enough to go often! Where did you live before?

 

[Helloworld]

First, please know my carpentry skills are terrible and I’m doing this work myself (with the exception of the coop, which you can see is a modified play structure and a carpenter added walls and a roof. Don’t worry; that top story without ventilation I use as a shed for my tools and chicken supplies.)

So for those of you with beautiful built-from-scratch set-ups, no judgement allowed.

Anyway, when I first started keeping chickens 2 1/2 years ago, I didn’t know any better and built the run out of chicken wire. Over the past several weeks, I recovered all the walls and the ceiling with 1/2 inch hardware cloth (by myself!)

I’m in California, so the weather is mild and I really don’t need a covered run. However, I do like to cover it in the heat of summer and when rainy season comes. When I had chicken wire, the tarp and wire would sag under the weight of the water. Now that the run is recovered and rainy season will (hopefully) come soon, I did a new tarp with a taut line so it is pitched. I still need to pick up some more eye bolts and carabiners so it stays a little tighter, but here’s how it looks right now. It makes it super dark underneath, but since the sun is low, the sunlight comes in sideways, so I think they will still get sunshine in the morning.

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Aint that something! I like.

 

[Chickassan]

That looks good! I don't think you're as challenged as you think you are iv'e seen those kind of builds and yours isn't one of them.

 

[micstrachan]

That looks good! I don't think you're as challenged as you think you are iv'e seen those kind of builds and yours isn't one of them.

Awe, thank you!