What makes a chicken coop easy to live with?

[Sam]

After months of work my wir is finally finished!!

It was finished(ish) ages ago but we just didn't have a roof so it wasn't fox proof, but its the first week of the summer holidays so I've been out making it fox proof!!

I know it's not brilliant , but it works

 

This was a week ago..

 

 

This is today..

 

I made the table from an old table top (cut to size) and added legs and made a ramp, hopefully they will learn how to use it!!

 

As soon as I put the eglu on the table, blacky jumped straight up and sat on the nest! (broody)

 

Oh and I made this little feeding station after I took the photos, saves me £15 so I'm happy!! I just hooked one of the anti-dig skirts from the eglu run onto my table.

 

It's been boiling today, said 31deg on my thermometer in the wir!! i put some ice in their water and been giving some cucumber. They all had their wings held out and their mouth slightly open, but I checked in the sticky and it's just a way for them to cool down (thanks egluntyne!)

[beach chick]

it looks great, well done you! love the dappled shade, that's very nice. also the use of the panel to hang your feeders, I keep hanging on to those in case they come in handy!

[Plum]

Smashing

 

It may get quite warm under the pvc roof so what about hanging your run cover up to make some dark shade. I bought a cheap groundsheet which worked well hooked with bungees to the top of the sides, then made a fabric one

[Ain't Nobody Here]

Looks great, well done .

[Sam]

Thank you for your comments :D

 

Plum, do you attach the shades to the weldmesh vertically, or somehow do you put it in the run horizontally? If so, how?

Thanks for the advice

[Plum]

I got S hooks from ikea which I hooked in the wire and put a little bungee on which connected to a loop in the groundsheet. Guess you've got to be inventive. The groundsheet went across the run horizontally. See if I can find a picture.

[Plum]

Sorry I lied. I put cuphooks into the wood at top and hooked the bungees to them. Not got any pictures of the groundsheet but this is the shade I have at present which may give you the idea. It's like a groundsheet in that it has loops at edge and corners.

 

[Sam]

Thanks Plum that's brilliant, I've got some cup hooks left from which I used for the ramp so I will use them I think the heat wave is over and we're forecast rain tomorrow so I think I'm safe for a while! Thanks again

[Plum]

Yup raining now that was a quick one. They still need shade though for those odd moments in the sun.

[ThinkingChickens]

Is your corrugated roofing the UV protectant type? I know many of the clear ones in the states are so perhaps yours will actually keep out heat. Everything looks beautiful. We're starting our run tomorrow and I can't wait!