I posted this on my SufficientSelf journal but I figured that I'd add it here, because I'm sure it can be used for chickens! So I thought I'd just copy and paste it all here. We're pretty proud of this.
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My mom, my brother, and I have been working on a new run for the turkeys and peafowl.
Here was last years pen where we had some of the turkeys (there was netting on top but the snow sunk it in so I took it down a while ago)
And here is the new and improved run, with added matinence to the building (scraping, painting, replaced some boards).
It is about 44 long (as long as the building), 15 feet wide, about six feet high at the lowest point, and over seven feet at the highest point (perfect for the peacock), and divided in half. The netting was rolled and attached onto straight cottonwood limbs, and set into hooks that we nailed in under the eaves of the building. The rest of the netting was cabletied onto the fence, that way we can simply cut the ties and roll it all up one way when winter comes, to prevent sagging.
We still have to attach the netting that drapes over the edges onto the building, and add gates, which I'm doing tomorrow. We also need to cut holes into the building that go into the inside runs.
The divider is chain link fencing from our friend Jo who got it in the junk. The netting on top was from my uncles Matias and Johan who got it from a guy who raised hundreds of pheasants when they did landscape work for him.
However, we broke down and bought all the outside wiring.
Anyway, I wanted to show you the netting when we folded it out. Its actually folded three times in the picture, if that gives you an idea of how much we got. It took my mom and I about 45 minutes to unfold it all porperly.
Anyway, Floyd and Blondie the peafowl will go in one section, and the Royal Palm turkeys in the other.
I think it looks pretty nice.
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My mom, my brother, and I have been working on a new run for the turkeys and peafowl.
Here was last years pen where we had some of the turkeys (there was netting on top but the snow sunk it in so I took it down a while ago)
And here is the new and improved run, with added matinence to the building (scraping, painting, replaced some boards).
It is about 44 long (as long as the building), 15 feet wide, about six feet high at the lowest point, and over seven feet at the highest point (perfect for the peacock), and divided in half. The netting was rolled and attached onto straight cottonwood limbs, and set into hooks that we nailed in under the eaves of the building. The rest of the netting was cabletied onto the fence, that way we can simply cut the ties and roll it all up one way when winter comes, to prevent sagging.
We still have to attach the netting that drapes over the edges onto the building, and add gates, which I'm doing tomorrow. We also need to cut holes into the building that go into the inside runs.
The divider is chain link fencing from our friend Jo who got it in the junk. The netting on top was from my uncles Matias and Johan who got it from a guy who raised hundreds of pheasants when they did landscape work for him.
However, we broke down and bought all the outside wiring.
Anyway, I wanted to show you the netting when we folded it out. Its actually folded three times in the picture, if that gives you an idea of how much we got. It took my mom and I about 45 minutes to unfold it all porperly.
Anyway, Floyd and Blondie the peafowl will go in one section, and the Royal Palm turkeys in the other.
I think it looks pretty nice.
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