New hens not going into Eglu Go Up

[jill the potter]

Well here goes, photos of WIR before and after..........

Sorry don't know why these two are so large - I did resize them!

 

Finished run

 

Girls confined to small area of garden while run is being completed - not happy !!!

 

Clean eglu, new feeder and drinker, fresh woodchip - no girls yet

 

Girls installed - not impressed!! Chicken gym not quite finished.

 

Who you looking at?

 

Tarpaulin fitted - not sure how to keep front rolled up yet.

The girls also have an outside run which is fenced off to the right of the run where there are trees and shrubs.

 

Hope you like the set up. I'm really pleased with it and wish we had done it before Perhaps now we can reclaim the rest of the garden!!

[ISCA]

Looks fantastic. Good idea to have the boarding around the base- my lot kick Hemcore everywhere!!!!

[chick wiggle]

Looks brilliant - Well done

[sewitall]

Lovely run. You can get some of those ball bungies which will keep your tarpaulins up. Tarpaflex sells them

http://www.tarpaflex.co.uk/acatalog/accessories.html.

Angela

[Plum]

Thank you, worth the wait. You can go and prepare for the exhibition now.

 

It looks really good and very well made and shows off your pieris beautifully. Now I'm even more impatient waiting for mine!! Am amazed he put it together so quickly. Better watch out Tony you have a worthy competitor.

[grracee]

Wow, thats great! Lucky you & chickens!!

[Tutti Frutti]

Well done! That looks lovely, good luck for your show Jill, hope it goes well

[Seagazer]

That looks really good, lucky girls

[Torrin]

That looks lovely and I love the depth of your boarding - my 'Tony' has boarding but lower and they are managing to spread quite a lot of aubiose around

[Lewis]

Looks great

[Shelley]

Is this a CMS (or whatever they're now called) run? If so how long did it take to put together?

[jill the potter]

They are now called Bay Animal Housing. Chris and another chap put it together in just over an hour!!!! I'm really pleased with it Chickens on the otherhand are unimpressed!!!!!

[Shelley]

Thanks. And do you happen to know the gauge and size of mesh fitted to the panel. Looks like 1 inch x 1inch from the pictures. Did you go with the stapled or screwed gauge? I think the 16 gauge is screwed and the 19 gauge stapled? Whatever you went with is it holding up well?

[jill the potter]

Sorry for the late reply Shelley got struck down with some awful fluey thing on Saturday morning (not felt so in in a long time!!!) and have literally only just managed to get out of bed this pm. Not sure what gauge it is but it's smaller then 1" I would s ay it's more like 2cm, and the mesh is stapled on and looks really secure. Staples every couple of inches. Will have a proper look tomorrow and post again.