4m x 3m Omlet pen, cube, new auto door still boxed and coop light

[Chook n Boo Mum]

DH has at last shown me how to load pics onto Photobucket, although I'm not sure I've retained it!!

 

Here goes - these, hopefully, are the photos of the new DIY Eglu extension made for our three chooks by their doting "daddy".

 

 

 

 

Snowdrop, Buttercup's bottom behind Bluebell - too busy to pose for Daddy!

 

 

 

The girls are sooooo much happier in their extended run, squabbles are quickly over as they can move apart without running into the side/end of the run in less than 3 steps!

 

Other reasons for taking this route were cost, this was about £36 rather than nearly £50 each for the converter and extension, and DH went over to the wire place & purchased it 2 days after we got the chooks whereas Omlet would have taken much longer to deliver once the order was placed. By which time I would have been beside myself and Snowdrop would probably have been bald!! Am very lucky to have an engineer for a hubby!

 

Sha xx

[Olly]

wow - that's impressive!

 

I'm still not quite sure how he did it, because the Omlet converter is tapered so that it straightens the run out, but that looks pretty darn good - and as you say, a lot cheaper.

 

How marvellous to have an engineer in the family, handy people aren't they!

[Chook n Boo Mum]

Hi Olly,

 

You can't see it very clearly from the photos, but there is a bit of an overlap on the join to cover the tapering. It just makes it a bit more secure than an exact butting together kind of join - does that make sense? It's very late & I should really go & get some beauty sleep rather than bumbling around the forum!

 

Have got a year 6 disco to oversee tomorrow & no doubt the creatures will have me awake at the crack of dawn again, oh the joys of alternative parenthood!

 

And yes an engineer is a very useful person to know - he's just finished a "go-cart" of sorts for DS, who is very impressed! Daddy is soooo !!

 

Sha x

[Egluntyne]

Wow...that looks good.

 

At first glance, I couldn't see the join!

[prettychic]

ahh brill, make me one haha x

[Chickvic]

Impressive! Looks very good and I had to look to find where they meet too!

[frenchlayer]

I like the way he has taken the end off and moved to the 'new' end, very cunning.

[Scottie]

Fantastic - I also have an engineer for a husband - they can be quite useful sometimes!

 

Sheila

[ubereglu]

Love it! That really is great and cheaper!

[Jules.]

Wow I'm really impressed I'm loving the umbrella in the run too!

[Gamebird]

Very neat and I just love the multicoloured sun-shade. Very summery.

[Chook n Boo Mum]

Thank you all for your kind words, DH is a very modest man, I think he enjoys the little challenges life - the children and chooks! - throw at him!

 

Not sure the sunshade will last too much longer as we live in a windtunnel, it's an interim mesure until I get a big enough bungy cord to attach a tarpaulin neatly so it doesn't flap & scare the chooks.

 

Sha x

[Adams Egg]

What a great design, where did you come by the weldmesh though in that size?

[Chook n Boo Mum]

Hi Adams Egg,

 

DH went to Titchfield to buy the weldmesh, having surfed the internet asking for 75mmx25mm (or 3in x 1in in old money!). He thinks a whole roll would be about £250 which is a lot of money, but would give you lots of runs!!! He managed to get an off-cut at about £12 a metre.

 

He got his from S.W. Marchant, 01329 842100, www.swmarchant.co.uk

although I'm sure they aren't the only supplier in the country!

 

Hope this helps!

 

Sha x

[LJ's Chooks]

Oh they are so close to me... i could throw a stone.... I wonder if i could do the same with my Cube.... great idea!!!

 

Anyone done the same for the cube by the way before i re-invent the wheel????

[Chook n Boo Mum]

LJ, will send a link to my DH, maybe he'll have some advice - then he'll be able to put it into practice as & when we get a cube....!

Could also pop in to say hi & meet you & your chooks "when" we come & get more wire for the afore mentioned cube!

 

Sha x

[LJ's Chooks]

Pop in.... It would be great to meet fellow chook mummies.... Just found out one of our new neighbours has chooks too... Tell hubbie to bring his tools and he can build me an extension whilst he's here!!!

[Mutrix Farmers]

Fabulous extension Wild Mum, particularly love the sun shade.

 

There's quite a few handy hubbies on the forum, perhaps we could set up husband skills-bank to share ideas and techniques for chicken run building?

[MedusA]

Wow! That is extremely impressive. Quite a saving too. Your girls look very happy in their s"Ooops, word censored!"y new des res.

[Adams Egg]

Tracking down the right weldmesh in a small enough quantity is harder than finding hens teeth! I will try a couple of sheets 8x4, it means the skirt will be narrow but I can deal with that.

[mostin]

Just been directed to to this link from another forum topic,

 

Fantastic work, just hoping my hubby will make me one now and save on me having to spend on an extension and converter as I've just got 2 more ladies.