2009 Omlet cube and run for sale

[binka]

My WIR should be coming very soon.

 

I'm wanting to build a couple of perches for it so they have somewhere to perch in the dry in the day if they want to. I've seen a couple of photos on the internet where it looks like there are vertical bits of wood going straight into the ground with a horizontal bar between the two verticals. How would I get the vertical bits of wood to stay still and upright as on the photos I've seen they don't look attached to anything?

 

Is it just a case of digging them deeply into the soil?

[Mrs Potts]

I am hopeless at DIY and only wanted something about thigh height tops, so have a series of facing bricks (house bricks with holes in) and broomhandles Nothing terribly clever or sophisticated.

 

Mrs Potts.

[binka]

That is a genius idea. Is it all quite stable? I don't want the bricks been shoved over and squishing a chicken!

 

Thanks.

[sjp]

concrete blocks laid flat then stack up into to a winners podeum ie steps rejuice by one each level so that the next row overlaps the joint of the row below they work well as steps into a raised coop to need to cut the odd block that way

as for a perch if your run isn't ti wide just fit a length of 2x2 or 3x2 timber across the run no more than 6ft long for 2x2. 9ft for 3x2 on edge on small runs a broom handle will work

my main run as a 6x2 shelf and a ply wood one plus a 2x2 and a clay plant pot all get well used

[Redwing]

crossed wooden ends would do the job - google 'Cavaletti' which is a type of horse jump to get an example

[Mrs Potts]

Hello, again.

 

Yes, they are fairly stable - I am short, so thigh high for me is about two feet high!

 

Shortest one just has two sets of bricks each end

two lengthways

two on top, lying across the first two (for stability)

facing brick on top of that with broom handle in the middle hole

 

Higher one has

Breeze block first

then bricks up to whatever height, but setting them crossways each time, for stability.

 

Hope that makes sense. If you don't have breeze blocks, you could do it without, it'd just be a bit shorter but I don't think they would mind! I do make sure it is stable every day though - what is it about chickens and tunnelling underneath stuff? I will have a look at the Cavaletti though, too, that might look a bit less home made!

 

Mrs Potts