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Per DH sitting beside me and having hysterics at all my comments on this forum :oops: it is 3m by 4m.

 

Trying to convince him that 6 chooks might be a bit lost and lonely in all that space and a cube :wink:

 

Oh he has just said that the latest Practical Poultry article says that 8 chooks should have 20 m by 20m - what a joke :oops:

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That will look fab when you get your purple cube on Wednesday. Are your chickens coming with the cube or are you getting them later on?

 

 

Not sure yet when we are getting the chickens - probably the weekend of the 26th April, unless the breeder will let us pick up during the week before :cry: Still seems like an age away.

 

Cube will hopefully be coming early - not that it makes any difference I suppose - Omlet charged me on Friday so must be on the van :D

 

DH is putting up the weldmesh - the snow has stopped for now :lol:

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I think 6 chooks is about the max for that size run unless they get to free range every day.

 

You are probably right - I keep hoping we could get in another 2 but.... 6 is probably more than enough :lol:

 

The painting and tacking of the weldmesh is taking us ages - I wouldn't feel jealous at all. Think it might have been a lot easier to buy a ready made run - however we will feel that we have done this all ourselves so :D

 

Two sides of mesh have had to go on the inside of the frame rather than the outside as we didn't have enough room on the outside to swing the hammer. I will have to put loads of tacks in to deter Mr Fox :cry:

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I used a staple gun to attach the weldmesh to the run. Not a fancy electric one just the hand held ones that you can get in B&Q that take a variety of different sized staples. It was quick and easy to put a staple in every couple of inches, just needed to lean hard on it so they went right in.

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