Patridge bantam chicken poorly foot?

[chooklady]

On Saturday we moved the cube outside the run. The shed it just behind the cube to the left so it's made life a lot easier as my chicken supplies are in there. I can top up the feed etc before letting them into the run.

 

[Egluntyne]

Looks wonderful.

[chelsea]

looks fabulous, your run is lovely. I really think orange is the best colour - it looks fab against the green plants.

[Purplemaniacs]

Your run is lovely and the orange cube looks great. Chelsea, I have to disagree orange is lovely but purple is the best colour

 

Seriously Chooklady I love your run, I have a cube sat empty waiting for its walk in run, do you have any tips for building a run? Any help or information would be gratefully received.

 

Chrissie

[Yolky]

That looks great. I think I am going to copy you with the brushwood screening. There are trees/bushes behind our run so don't want foxes hiding in there watching the hens and spooking them.

[ubereglu]

Looks lovely!

[chooklady]

Your run is lovely and the orange cube looks great. Chelsea, I have to disagree orange is lovely but purple is the best colour

 

Seriously Chooklady I love your run, I have a cube sat empty waiting for its walk in run, do you have any tips for building a run? Any help or information would be gratefully received.

 

Chrissie

 

Yes a clever husband/partner who can make your ideas come true!

 

Patience and good weather.

 

Seriously there are probably people on here who are more qualified that I to say what makes a good run. Thinking about things in a logical way, how things will work or not work etc and lots of planning, gather what you need and then get it underway. It took us 5 weekends to build and quite a bit of planning before that. Hubby is a perfectionist and I had to keep reminding him he was building a chicken run!

[Guest]

that looks fab, do you mind me asking....your cube roof looks nice and flush with the sides, is it?

 

(see my thread about 'query with cube roof')

 

I'd appreciate your comments, thanks in advance!

[chooklady]

If you run your hand from the roof down the side then I would say they are flush, but having said that I think the gap between the sides and the roof is slightly bigger than I thought it would be. I'll take some photos when it stops raining.

[Yolky]

Your run is fabby and I love your orange cube.

 

One thing I am still deciding is if the roof should sloap forwards or back. The run is protected from the back by bushes/trees so should hold the rain off and I am also prob going to do the brush screening as you have. At the moment I have the roof sloaping forward which I thought would protect the run from rain a little more although I realise that all the rain will run down onto the grass in front of the run. If the roof was to sloap backwards it would stop that problem but It would not protect the run from the rain so well. What do you think?

[chooklady]

I don't think I even considered sloping it forwards. We intend putting some guttering along the back and a small water butt. If you don't do something like that aswell as you say it will run forwards and you'll end up with a neck full when you go in the door, not very nice on a cold day.

[Guest]

If you run your hand from the roof down the side then I would say they are flush, but having said that I think the gap between the sides and the roof is slightly bigger than I thought it would be. I'll take some photos when it stops raining.

 

thanks, I'd appreciate that.

[chooklady]

that looks fab, do you mind me asking....your cube roof looks nice and flush with the sides, is it?

 

(see my thread about 'query with cube roof')

 

I'd appreciate your comments, thanks in advance!

 

Here are 2 photos of the roof and side panels from slightly different angles, hope that helps.

 

 

[AJuff]

Your set up looks fab. I have a similar set up . . the only problem is cleaning out the cube/eglu outside rather than being undercover!! It helps on a wet miserable day.

Edited August 18, 2008 by Guest

[chooklady]

Your set up looks fab. I have a similar set up . . the only problem is cleaning out the cube/eglu outside rather than being unsercover!! It helps on a wet miserable day.

 

That is true although I found the cube very hard to move around inside the run on the woodchips, it was very awkward. Getting wet doesn't really bother me, having a dog like mine I'm always wet and muddy. I'm very happy with it outside it gives me easy access to the shed where everything I need is kept and the slabs underneath make it easier to move.

[Cinnamon]

Looks great.

Orange is so cheerful & optimistic isn't it?

[Ain't Nobody Here]

That looks really great . The orange is so bright and cheerful .

[Electricbarbarella]

looks very very