dance in the dark Posted April 16, 2012 Share Posted April 16, 2012 Ok, so after much discussion, I have officially decided to officially consign an area of the garden over to my girls, with proper fencing, and they seem very pleased! The nearly completed run Letitia and Edith One of my araucanas, lavinia The orps, babs and berta The grass is always greener.... And this is a selection of all of them (bluebells, speckledys, cream legbars, orps and araucanas) with some mid afternoon porridge. Any just because my letitia finally laid her first egg last week, here is a picture of my legbar and araucana eggs (the three down the right are legbar, the two on the left are araucana, and the back left it letitia's first) Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
AndreaT Posted April 16, 2012 Share Posted April 16, 2012 What a lovely area you've made for them! Gorgeous girls and I love the pic of them in a circle eating their porridge Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Chicken shack Posted April 16, 2012 Share Posted April 16, 2012 Looks great How did you put the posts into the ground Did you bang them in or use concrete Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
scubababe Posted April 16, 2012 Share Posted April 16, 2012 Brilliant. It's a lovely area and they are lovely, lucky girls Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Mrs Potts Posted April 16, 2012 Share Posted April 16, 2012 What a lovely set up and beautiful hens. Those heads poke out quite a way, don't they? Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Duncan08 Posted April 16, 2012 Share Posted April 16, 2012 That looks fabulous, very lucky girls I too loved the chicken circle. Does anyone remember the toy like a wooden paddle and a circle of chickens with strings attached to their heads. The string attached to a weight underneath and you had to swirl the paddle in a circle to get the chooks to bob their heads to eat. Phew that is going back a bit that's what it reminded me of anyway. Two of my girls stck their heads through the wire and have horrid baldy necks these days. As you say, even with a run full of things the grass is always greener! Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
House MD 221B Posted April 16, 2012 Share Posted April 16, 2012 Oh they are gorgeous and the run is fantastic Love them poking their heads through the wire bless 'em Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
chickchick2012 Posted April 17, 2012 Share Posted April 17, 2012 Wow - great set-up you've got. Unfortunately that would be most of my garden gone, so mine will have to be a lot smaller. Love the picture of their heads poking through the mesh. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
superkitty Posted April 17, 2012 Share Posted April 17, 2012 Wow that looks great! What a good setup - and I love that picture of them all in a circle around the porridge Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Sue_F Posted April 17, 2012 Share Posted April 17, 2012 I'm always scared that my 3 will get their heads stuck or something awful!!! Whenever we move it you can see where the fence was and where their necks could reach too!!! Katy Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Plum Posted April 17, 2012 Share Posted April 17, 2012 What a scrumptious lot, they'll not jump that fence. If you're really worried about them getting stuck why not run some small hole wire around the base and spoil their fun Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
dance in the dark Posted April 17, 2012 Author Share Posted April 17, 2012 Yes, there is a line around that new turf, up to where the chickens can reach. I am theorhetically not too bothered about them putting their heads through, although obviously it just feels a bit less safe for them, so I may look into a small strip of small hole wire for them. We banged the posts about two feet into the ground, maybe a touch more, and them the chicken wire goes about a foot into the ground. The bit of omlet fencing you can see in the picture, is now a wooden fence (where the ground meets the concrete) we used contrete for the posts for that. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Chortle Chook Posted April 17, 2012 Share Posted April 17, 2012 How did you get that picture of them all in a circle? Mine always seem to push and shove against eachother and even climb over one another and get their feet in the porridge, certain that the spot someone else is eating from is the exact spot for them Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
sandyhas3chucks Posted April 17, 2012 Share Posted April 17, 2012 Lovely girls... Is there a fox secure run for them for when you are out? Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
dance in the dark Posted April 18, 2012 Author Share Posted April 18, 2012 Yes there is a fox proof bit of the run. You can just see in the back right had part of the picture, there's my eglu classic, that and the wooden house at the back are on concrete, with woodchips and straw to play with, and after this afternoon, all the chickens that live in the wooden houses will have a nice new bright yellow eglu cube to play with! Although we leave them out most of the time because there is normally someone in the house at pretty much all times. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Pearls007 Posted April 18, 2012 Share Posted April 18, 2012 If you stop the chickens "mowing" the grass outside the run you will have to strim it instead - I'd go with the less labour intensive option! Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Luvachicken Posted April 19, 2012 Share Posted April 19, 2012 all the chickens that live in the wooden houses will have a nice new bright yellow eglu cube to play with! What lucky chickens and a lovely area for them to play in. I must admit, I have been loking at that lovely yellow cube Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
