Upcoming Redneck Job

[3KillerBs]

Everything always takes longer than planned. First downpours, then getting people organized to move stuff. But the frame is in the garden and I can start working on it this afternoon after this morning's errands.

 

[3KillerBs]

Eh. Not working as well as I'd hoped. Still figuring it out.

I am rather proud of my gate -- but need a better way of fastening it than the bungie cords. Unfortunately, the carabiners won't fit on the PVC pipes as intended.

(Note, this is going to be a medium-security day run for grow-outs and spare cockerels. I know that I'm compromising on predator-safety).

Mainly, I have so far determined that,

A. I do have enough wire to do more-or-less what I wanted in getting the grow-outs onto my garden for the winter.

B. I can't really do anything solid until I move the brooder up there.

C. It's a mess.



Yet, when it's done, it *ought* to hold chickens.

Especially if I use some plastic netting from the top of the short trellis there at the back to the old pavilion frame.

 

[3KillerBs]

P.S. I did not make the puppy playpen panels I'm using as a gate. I bought the puppy playpen at the thrift store.

 

[linguini]

Eh. Not working as well as I'd hoped. Still figuring it out.

I am rather proud of my gate -- but need a better way of fastening it than the bungie cords. Unfortunately, the carabiners won't fit on the PVC pipes as intended.

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(Note, this is going to be a medium-security day run for grow-outs and spare cockerels. I know that I'm compromising on predator-safety).

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Mainly, I have so far determined that,

A. I do have enough wire to do more-or-less what I wanted in getting the grow-outs onto my garden for the winter.

B. I can't really do anything solid until I move the brooder up there.

C. It's a mess.



Yet, when it's done, it *ought* to hold chickens.

Especially if I use some plastic netting from the top of the short trellis there at the back to the old pavilion frame.

love the pvc pipe door frame - I'm going to copy it

 

[3KillerBs]

love the pvc pipe door frame - I'm going to copy it

I had these 5 panels that someone had made as a dog pen. They're not quite the same size and only held together with zipties.

I can see making something a bit sturdier with 2x2's, though perhaps less versatile.

 

[linguini]

I can see making something a bit sturdier with 2x2's, though perhaps less versatile.

I need a door frame for a deer net/chicken wire combo gate that's easy to open. Wooden frame will not stand easily. Currently, I use a 6ft driveway marker at the vertical edge of the net, and metal stakes as ground edge (to hold the net down), with s-hooks to close the gate. It's mainly to keep deer out at night and chickens in during the day. Not predator proof, but works for our purpose! I think the pvc pipes may hold up the net better!

 

[3KillerBs]

I need a door frame for a deer net/chicken wire combo gate that's easy to open. Wooden frame will not stand easily. Currently, I use a 6ft driveway marker at the vertical edge of the net, and metal stakes as ground edge (to hold the net down), with s-hooks to close the gate. It's mainly to keep deer out at night and chickens in during the day. Not predator proof, but works for our purpose! I think the pvc pipes may hold up the net better!

For a lightweight structure PVC pipe is certainly good.

I haven't come up with anything better than the bungee cords for closing it though. The pipes and the fence post are both too big for a carabiner.

 

[linguini]

I can tie one edge of the frame to a drive way marker, and use s-hook to close the gate! (also tied a driveway marker to the t-post end of the fence, so the s-hook can work both way)

 

[3KillerBs]

Here we are. A temporary, low-security grow-out facility for spare cockerels -- yet another iteration of the brooder. I think that the idea of a chick-nick pavilion -- the frame properly wrapped in good wire with a tarp over it -- has potential, but what I actually did was cobble together every scrap of random wire I have and glomed it onto a garden trellis.

I'll move the three extra boys in there tonight and leave them closed up all day tomorrow then let them out on Thursday when I'll be there all day.

With the house, the brooder itself, and the tarp on the fence they should be able to get out of the wind no matter which way it's blowing.

 

[3KillerBs]

The boys are in there. Frightened and hiding in a corner, but safe.

It's a more than generous home for 3 spare cockerels.