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To: samiam1972

My favorite YouTuber, Dale Calder, keeps chickens and quail; he builds a run in this video:

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=6Q6yglf5KMI&list=PL4B778DAE8FA99483

The wire gauge looks too big to me, but I don’t know the abilities of the critters he’s guarding against...I’ve seen foxes squeeze through incredibly small spaces.


31 posted on 09/28/2016 2:16:36 PM PDT by Jamestown1630 ("A Republic, If you can keep it.")
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To: Jamestown1630

I skipped through the video to see the finished product. :0) It looks very similar to what my husband is building. He has concrete deck blocks for the big posts and smaller wood in between. Chicken wire along the bottom and that bigger wire on top. I’m not sure what he plans to do on top yet. It will be attached to the barn wall and we’ll have a door, too, so I can give them treats.

We used free pallets to add walls inside the barn lined with chicken wire to keep the girls safe. We can hear the stupid coyotes howling at night. The good thing about the pallet walls is that we can stuff them with hay during the winter so they don’t freeze to death and remove it in the summer so they don’t die of heat. My girls have a nice little setup!


32 posted on 09/28/2016 2:26:57 PM PDT by samiam1972 ("It is a poverty to decide that a child must die so that you may live as you wish."-Mother Teresa)
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