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| ...and the wire goes up.... |
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| cute aren't they....? |
Well, things are moving
on apace. Having acquired almost all the materials I needed to construct the
run, I only needed some more concrete for the support posts and the buried
fencing wire. I recently completed a fence post job and noticed that there were
some broken bags of postcrete at Homebase. Having cheekily asked, I got four
bags for half price – result!
The chicken wire was
buried 18” into the ground and support posts were concreted in on top. The wire
extended a foot or two above the top of the posts – some 9 feet in total – to
give an unsupported upper edge to outfox any agile, acrobatic Vulpes that may
fancy chicken for dinner.
It’s not a large run at
this moment, but as we are relative begHeners (sic) there is plenty of room for
now. Cleverly, I have left sufficient space to extend the run if we need to and
once the potatoes have been dug up.
We are indebted to our
wonderful neighbour, Wendy Rainthorpe whose
friend supplied the eggs and her hen, Babbs supplied the necessary heat to
hatch them. Of the eggs that did hatch, the three Sussex Reds are for us – two
hens and a cockerel, we believe. Having met them, we’re getting very keen to
bring them home.
As they are only 8 weeks
old, we won’t be getting many eggs this year, but that gives us time to get
used to them and them to get used to us. I have to finish off the door to the
run, buy the bedding and the food and tidy up around it, then we will be
ready…..
