Shadrach's Ex Battery and Rescued chickens thread.

[BlindLemonChicken]

Princess stole half of my sandwich and shared it with the cat

Treasonous

 

[Ikslo]

Treasonous

Depends on how much one likes the cat

 

[notabitail]

Princess stole half of my sandwich and shared it with the cat

Birds of a feather flock together.

 

[fuzzi]

While trying to sort out the chaos of my non existent file system I came across this drone picture of the field taken a couple of years ago. A few things have changed but the basic layout is much the same.

The red rectangle is the coop run.
The black shape in the coop run is the coop.
The white part is the coop extension.

The blue rectangle on the left is the old fruit bush plot.
The black rectangle is my plot and the rectangle inside that is now a herb plot.
The yellow line is the extended run. This is a zone just for the chickens now; it used to be shared with the geese.

The greenish line is the fence I put up last year.
The green house in the middle back garden is where Mrs Psycho Chew A Coop lives.
At metre or so further leftwards at the top of the left hand corner of the picture is where the resident vixen lives.
View attachment 4286092

The coop run fence is slowly falling apart and I've been looking at the options for replacing it and incorporating the old fruit bush plot into the run.
Timber has become ferociously expensive and I've been looking at large cage structures like the one half way along the extended run which has lasted at least six years and still looks in good condition.
Something like this. A couple of the 6m x 3m or an 8m x 3m and a six and a small one to make an L shape for coop space at on end.
https://www.ebay.co.uk/itm/134982547303?_skw=alphapet+chicken+run&itmmeta=01KFCB3PKN2TATRSWFA3KYR2H9&hash=item1f6d963767:g:kJoAAOSw8U1l9z4k&itmprp=enc:AQALAAAA8O7PUuNWmJ++UShgI9tQz/rjvQ4pk8WxlIXMuRxMFGTweF69iRsTr4FneQWj6iJgcpAAPnqk5Kjf65YORo1K9GvbEeBSucwi/mlJUWh85tHs3UKMYgRrheO8DR59kygfV/bi/FGpueWFT5U8rWXPOzqB+1V/+ITd+CdxaM6HQ4R4ywOC0gRdJDOC9XNj18Ysy6Q7FB1iROSQoW7bbXc54ltzPeH8Fxhi9hiG+wDXhzdJgZGzswG1l6lwFOYlr8KvcCslOb8dRaR+MSVOFfaQYtYy+FuIfq7SaFO9S4R9QAi/a8Ldy+lBRlTXfYEcOYSgVg==|tkp:BFBMhuuOi_tm&var=434430276562

It would need a skirt and stock net or weldmesh at the bottom of the fence, say Im high, but even with the cost of these added it still working out a lot cheaper and a lot easier to do then a more traditional build out of wood.
I could build most of it inside the existing run and only need to cut the existing fence to join the sections up.

Do it.

 

[Appalachickens]

While trying to sort out the chaos of my non existent file system I came across this drone picture of the field taken a couple of years ago. A few things have changed but the basic layout is much the same.

The red rectangle is the coop run.
The black shape in the coop run is the coop.
The white part is the coop extension.

The blue rectangle on the left is the old fruit bush plot.
The black rectangle is my plot and the rectangle inside that is now a herb plot.
The yellow line is the extended run. This is a zone just for the chickens now; it used to be shared with the geese.

The greenish line is the fence I put up last year.
The green house in the middle back garden is where Mrs Psycho Chew A Coop lives.
At metre or so further leftwards at the top of the left hand corner of the picture is where the resident vixen lives.
View attachment 4286092

The coop run fence is slowly falling apart and I've been looking at the options for replacing it and incorporating the old fruit bush plot into the run.
Timber has become ferociously expensive and I've been looking at large cage structures like the one half way along the extended run which has lasted at least six years and still looks in good condition.
Something like this. A couple of the 6m x 3m or an 8m x 3m and a six and a small one to make an L shape for coop space at on end.
https://www.ebay.co.uk/itm/134982547303?_skw=alphapet+chicken+run&itmmeta=01KFCB3PKN2TATRSWFA3KYR2H9&hash=item1f6d963767:g:kJoAAOSw8U1l9z4k&itmprp=enc:AQALAAAA8O7PUuNWmJ++UShgI9tQz/rjvQ4pk8WxlIXMuRxMFGTweF69iRsTr4FneQWj6iJgcpAAPnqk5Kjf65YORo1K9GvbEeBSucwi/mlJUWh85tHs3UKMYgRrheO8DR59kygfV/bi/FGpueWFT5U8rWXPOzqB+1V/+ITd+CdxaM6HQ4R4ywOC0gRdJDOC9XNj18Ysy6Q7FB1iROSQoW7bbXc54ltzPeH8Fxhi9hiG+wDXhzdJgZGzswG1l6lwFOYlr8KvcCslOb8dRaR+MSVOFfaQYtYy+FuIfq7SaFO9S4R9QAi/a8Ldy+lBRlTXfYEcOYSgVg==|tkp:BFBMhuuOi_tm&var=434430276562

It would need a skirt and stock net or weldmesh at the bottom of the fence, say Im high, but even with the cost of these added it still working out a lot cheaper and a lot easier to do then a more traditional build out of wood.
I could build most of it inside the existing run and only need to cut the existing fence to join the sections up.

I’m adding a similar structure back in the woods. I’m limited for space because of all the trees so it’s 6.5 feet by 6.5 feet. The one I bought uses hardware cloth, so I think I’ll just need to add a skirt.

 

[Molpet]

I’m adding a similar structure back in the woods. I’m limited for space because of all the trees so it’s 6.5 feet by 6.5 feet. The one I bought uses hardware cloth, so I think I’ll just need to add a skirt.

Do you have weasels? They can get through a hole bigger than 1/2 inch. This has 3/4.
Let us know how it is when you get it.

 

[Appalachickens]

Do you have weasels? They can get through a hole bigger than 1/2 inch. This has 3/4.
Let us know how it is when you get it.

I don't know. Maybe? I've never seen one, but that doesn't mean they aren't here. I might wrap at least the lower bit in smaller hardware cloth. Do you think they'd climb up past that to get in?

 

[HiEverybirdy]

Yours sound significantly more polite than mine. Mine thought I was a rooster and therefore supposedly I had to share my lunch. Once I had a piece of meat stolen from my sandwich.

This is what it's like trying to eat around our chickens.

 

[HiEverybirdy]

I don't know. Maybe? I've never seen one, but that doesn't mean they aren't here. I might wrap at least the lower bit in smaller hardware cloth. Do you think they'd climb up past that to get in?

I'm also in east Tennessee, and we do, so you probably do We haven't had a problem with weasels yet, but apparently some of the neighbors have. We usually stick with the 1/2" hardware cloth rule just in case.

Another region-specific consideration, at least in our portion of east TN, is that bears can easily take something like this down unless it's surrounded by electric. Electric fencing has been really, really helpful here.

 

[Molpet]

I don't know. Maybe? I've never seen one, but that doesn't mean they aren't here. I might wrap at least the lower bit in smaller hardware cloth. Do you think they'd climb up past that to get in?

They climb and raid squirrels nests here.
My profile picture is a weasel up a tree at my chest height.