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Chicken Run

  • 10-06-2013 6:23pm
    #1
    Sully34
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 938 ✭✭✭


    Just finished building my chicken run after a fox carried my first three hens last week so I need to get things right before buying more. So I built a 12' x 8' run that Im fitting onto a 12" concrete surround. The wood has been treated but still waiting to get the wiring. Someone told me to get dpc plastic to put under the wooden frames before bolting it down into the concrete.

    Any other tips and idea's would be very welcome


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  • #2
    duffysfarm
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 853 ✭✭✭duffysfarm


    any chance of a picture?


  • #3
    Sully34
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 938 ✭✭✭Sully34


    duffysfarm wrote: »
    any chance of a picture?

    Yeah will do as soon as I get the wiring on to make it look some bit finished


  • #4
    geros29
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 101 ✭✭geros29


    Any other tips and idea's would be very welcome[/quote]

    Go plenty high with the wire.foxs are well able to jump!


  • #5
    glaswegian
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 1,013 ✭✭✭glaswegian


    go low,foxes are good diggers.


  • #6
    Sully34
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 938 ✭✭✭Sully34


    Well I put a concrete trench a foot down all around and the top will also be netted


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  • #7
    dozy doctor
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 751 ✭✭✭dozy doctor


    Important to net the top as well.... I have my birds a 12ft x 5ft run..... Not sure if I should cover the roof with corrugated steel though.....


  • #8
    Conmaicne Mara
    Closed Accounts Posts: 6,543 ✭✭✭Conmaicne Mara


    See if you can get 8' x 4' sheets of expanded metal with 1" x 1" squares in the mesh. It'll keep out everything from adult rats upwards. Live catch traps for mink & rats would be made of similar sized mesh.


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