Last hours of freedom…
February 28, 2008
A while back we decided to restrict the freedom of our chicken and build them a reasonable sized run. The reasons: the large numbers of poops around the house, their destructiveness in the garden and the upcoming summer when the poops will attract loads of flies. Also, a dog and chicken don’t mix very well together. The temptation was just to big for Jingles and every now and then he managed to snap at one of the hens. Having been completely docile, they have no fear for Jingles at all!
Today the weather was not too bad and I started out with the timber structure. This was set up in about two hours. Tomorrow the netting will be installed and the hutch will be moved partly inside the run, effectively retaining the chicken inside the run.
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Little dogs are just like little children. They bite in everything they don’t know.
As for the chickens, they produce some eggs already? I’m building a nice home for my 3 chickens also. However, we don’t have to protect them for a little dog or a child. We have a fox running around these days that sees the small regional animals as a nice dinner. I dont know if there are foxes in Skye, if so, make sure the netting goes a bit into the ground (30-40) cm!
Good luck, and may the chickens be with you…
Hi Obi Chicken Kenobi!
There are foxes on Skye (and marters, weasels, otters and other nasty critters) so measures have been taken to prevent them from catching our happy hens.
We have 6 fresh eggs every day… so we’re doing really fine on the egg side
Little boy ok?