Need help with fencing for sectioning run

[phoenixmama]

So, our coop sits in a huge run (~2500 sq. ft.). There are four doors on one side of the coop designed so that when you open all four up, you essentially have a 3 walled coop (good for our super hot climate). I want to section the run into 4 sections, attaching the fencing to the coop somehow so that I can get the chickens to be in one section at a time (opening up one door at a time). I just wonder if there is a reasonably cheap way to do this.

Right now the run is a veritable wasteland. I'd love my layers to have access to pasture like my meat birds do. I kind of wish I had read "Chicken Tractor" before we built the coop and run. Oh well. If there's a will, there's a way, right?

So, please give me ideas for how to do the fencing for this endeavor.

Edited to add: I should mention that the coop is in a corner of the run, with the 4 doors facing out toward the run.

 

[rufus]

We used to have our chicken yards set up with the coop in the middle and the pasture sectioned into four parts. We would rotate the chickens from section to section so that the grass would recover.

The coops were mostly made with palm fronds nailed to the purlins. It was a wall less affair. It made a good coop, lots of shade and cool breezes. It was dirt cheap too.

Good Luck,

Rufus

 

[patandchickens]

Cheapest thing is to just see what you can turn up, fencing-wise. Craigslist, freecycle, auctions, asking around, etc. For just keeping chickens in part of a run, even cheapo garden netting or plastic 'snow fence'/'safety fence' type stuff would work. Sure, they can fly over it if they want, but honestly there is zero you can do about that so why sweat it

Then just use that and step-in posts or t-posts, again whatever you can get cheapest or free-est.

The big advantage you have is that only the perimeter of the run area needs to be predatorproof -- the crossfencing only needs to do as good a job as realistically possible of keeping chickens in a given quadrant. Which is much easier and cheaper than keeping out coyotes!

Good luck, ahve fun,

Pat