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- Jun 5, 2011
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Siding is looking great, Esmerelda has been severed about the ground and I have begun working her furry little tendrils out of the cracks in the wall. With this part coming together I'm ready to stat plotting, um I mean PLANNING, my next engagement. The run.
I'm thinking chain length fence, in the sections that you buy to build dog kennels with. I like those because I know that they are tall enough to let me stand up in the run. I plan to bury concrete cinder blocks in the ground beneath the sections to deter the burrowers, then cover the run with heavy plastic hawk netting.
Around the bottom of the fencing sections I want to put sheets of roofing tin (we have oodles of it, already laying around). It is wide enough that the local small predators (mice, coons, snakes, ect.) cannot jump over it, and they shouldn't be able to climb it. The larger predators (coyotes, neighbors dog, ect.) shouldn't be able to get through the fence anyway. Now I'm pretty sure that my cat will be able to come and go as she pleases, since she doesn't appear to be fazed much by the presence of a DOOR on the HOUSE (I'm not joking I HAVE let her in to eat and 10 minutes later had to let her BACK in when NO ONE let her out. She has pulled this trick at my grandmother's next door. We're baffled.). But I figure the first time she meets my Production Red Roo (He weighs in at about 10 to 12 lbs; dumb, mutant velociraptor chicken) she'll decide she doesn't care for fresh chicken all that much.
I'm thinking chain length fence, in the sections that you buy to build dog kennels with. I like those because I know that they are tall enough to let me stand up in the run. I plan to bury concrete cinder blocks in the ground beneath the sections to deter the burrowers, then cover the run with heavy plastic hawk netting.
Around the bottom of the fencing sections I want to put sheets of roofing tin (we have oodles of it, already laying around). It is wide enough that the local small predators (mice, coons, snakes, ect.) cannot jump over it, and they shouldn't be able to climb it. The larger predators (coyotes, neighbors dog, ect.) shouldn't be able to get through the fence anyway. Now I'm pretty sure that my cat will be able to come and go as she pleases, since she doesn't appear to be fazed much by the presence of a DOOR on the HOUSE (I'm not joking I HAVE let her in to eat and 10 minutes later had to let her BACK in when NO ONE let her out. She has pulled this trick at my grandmother's next door. We're baffled.). But I figure the first time she meets my Production Red Roo (He weighs in at about 10 to 12 lbs; dumb, mutant velociraptor chicken) she'll decide she doesn't care for fresh chicken all that much.
I can't wait to see where you get it to. MORE PICTURES!
