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From: Jim on 20 Apr 2010 05:26
On 19/04/2010 19:23, The Older Gentleman wrote:
> First thing is that whatever run you have, or nearly, the foxes will
> find a way of digging into it. Wire netting needs to be buried, or
> spread out flat along the ground by the run so the foxes can't start
> digging adjacent to it.

The trouble with creating runs is that it's a lot of work and eventually
you will end up with an area of bare earth unless you make it huge.

Which is why we've settled on using the ark type enclosures which you
can move around every so often.

Something like this:
From: Jim on 20 Apr 2010 05:26
On 20/04/2010 10:26, Jim wrote:
> On 19/04/2010 19:23, The Older Gentleman wrote:
>> First thing is that whatever run you have, or nearly, the foxes will
>> find a way of digging into it. Wire netting needs to be buried, or
>> spread out flat along the ground by the run so the foxes can't start
>> digging adjacent to it.
>
> The trouble with creating runs is that it's a lot of work and eventually
> you will end up with an area of bare earth unless you make it huge.
>
> Which is why we've settled on using the ark type enclosures which you
> can move around every so often.
>
> Something like this:

er
http://www.greenandeasy.co.uk/product/Premium-Poultry-Ark-FSC.aspx
From: Donnie on 20 Apr 2010 05:59
Jim said:

> On 20/04/2010 10:26, Jim wrote:
> > On 19/04/2010 19:23, The Older Gentleman wrote:
> >> First thing is that whatever run you have, or nearly, the foxes
> will >> find a way of digging into it. Wire netting needs to be
> buried, or >> spread out flat along the ground by the run so the
> foxes can't start >> digging adjacent to it.
> >
> > The trouble with creating runs is that it's a lot of work and
> > eventually you will end up with an area of bare earth unless you
> > make it huge.
> >
> > Which is why we've settled on using the ark type enclosures which
> > you can move around every so often.
> >
> > Something like this:
>
> er
> http://www.greenandeasy.co.uk/product/Premium-Poultry-Ark-FSC.aspx

Thing is our gardens never been, and never will be a lawn IYSWIM.
Its always been a bit patchy and there is a barish patch about 8 x 8
feet in the middle due to our golden retrievers antics anyway.

I'm not bothered about bare patches, Ive always treated it as a working
garden / wild garden anyway so to me it's not an issue.

On saying that, now that SWMBO has researched more and more into it too
she is swaying away from using the kids playhouse and buying something
:-/
So you never know, could be a 2nd hand eglu if it goes for ok ish money
or could be an ark type thingy.

There's a local garden centre in Willington nearby that we saw selling
coops a month or two ago which sparked the idea, well, the kids spotted
them, so we may go for a little pootle thataway today and have another
look.

--
Donnie
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From: Jim on 20 Apr 2010 06:07
On 20/04/2010 10:59, Donnie wrote:
> Jim said:
>> > The trouble with creating runs is that it's a lot of work and
>> > eventually you will end up with an area of bare earth unless you
>> > make it huge.
>
> Thing is our gardens never been, and never will be a lawn IYSWIM.
> Its always been a bit patchy and there is a barish patch about 8 x 8
> feet in the middle due to our golden retrievers antics anyway.
>
> I'm not bothered about bare patches, Ive always treated it as a working
> garden / wild garden anyway so to me it's not an issue.

Think more in terms of a huge bare smelly compost heap with various
undulations and holes which the chickens will scratch out so they can
use them as dust baths.
From: Champ on 20 Apr 2010 07:06
On Tue, 20 Apr 2010 10:10:50 +0100, Wicked Uncle Nigel
<wun(a)wicked-uncle-nigel.me.uk> wrote:

>Our chickens are much more for amusement than food, to be fair.
>They make me laugh, and that's all that really matters.

Chickens serve the same purpose as UKRM, eh?
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