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LauraMH
Joined: 23 Mar 2008
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Location: Middleton, Manchester
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 Posted: Mon Apr 21, 2008 8:09 pm Post subject: I made my first coop! |
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Us disabled lasses, very determined are we. Got tried of waiting for hubby to make me one so most of last week in free time and regular rest periods, I made my first coop.
Here's Magdy and her brood enjoying their new home.
Needs new roofing felt as it was too thin so thats being replaced.
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NannyP
Joined: 13 Apr 2005
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Location: 86310 Nr St Savin
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Well done Laura...looking good.
You'd be better off taking the felt off and painting the roof with marine paint, red mite will get under the felt and breed very happily!!
You also need to, if you can, fix chicken wire to the underneath of the run...as it stands at the moment, a fox or rat could dig under, or even lift the run and get your chickens.
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Henwife
Joined: 31 Jan 2006
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Location: Monmouthshire
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I disagree. I always use felt and it's about the only place I have never had red mite. I do creosote everything before putting any house together though and whenever I (or the wind) strip off old felt for replacement.
It's a first class house anyway. |
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LauraMH
Joined: 23 Mar 2008
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Location: Middleton, Manchester
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| Posted: Mon Apr 21, 2008 8:31 pm Post subject: |
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| NannyP wrote: | Well done Laura...looking good.
You'd be better off taking the felt off and painting the roof with marine paint, red mite will get under the felt and breed very happily!!
You also need to, if you can, fix chicken wire to the underneath of the run...as it stands at the moment, a fox or rat could dig under, or even lift the run and get your chickens.
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I'd be very interested if a fox or a rat could live long enough in my garden to get to the coop in the first place lol. Nextdoor have 2 rabid jack russells and we have 9 Northern Inuit dogs, 1 staffie x collie and a very good ratter of a jack russell. It'd be the thickest fox or rat to come in this garden lol
I remember the last house. We moved in and it had mice. within 2 weeks we never saw trace of another mouse again lol
O and we have 4 killer cats aswell, serious Ratters, poor babes haven't seen a rat since we moved from stretford near the canal lol
Seriously, My garden is secure enough to keep 11 dogs contained. No fox is ever getting in here. My chucks are guarded by Wolves lol |
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layla
Joined: 26 Oct 2007
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Location: West Midlands
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| Posted: Mon Apr 21, 2008 8:31 pm Post subject: |
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How clever are you ?   |
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LauraMH
Joined: 23 Mar 2008
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Location: Middleton, Manchester
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| layla wrote: | | How clever are you ? |
lol Now to make 5 more lol
(won't lie about the bruises and the extra Tramadol! lol but grit determination gets us girls through!) |
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NannyP
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Sounds like a very well defended garden  |
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LauraMH
Joined: 23 Mar 2008
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Location: Middleton, Manchester
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Here's my daughter who is 6 with Keano who is 4 lol. He's 32/33 inches at the shoulder.
and here's Keano surfing the net. lol A true Silver Surfer lol
He's put on a fair few kilos since we got him back in October, he left us at 8 weeks old. but sadly his owners could not cope with his size and a new baby (I have 9 of these and had a litter the day before both my children were born! both of us, me and bitch, puffing away lol but each to their own copabilities) |
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Gilly C
Joined: 22 Jun 2006
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Location: South Cumbria
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| Beautiful dog and wonderful run and hut, well done you |
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CP
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Location: Hampshire
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Well done on making that run! A grand job. 
He really does look like a wolf, doesn't he? Beautiful dog. |
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layla
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| Keano is georgous |
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JC
Joined: 24 Mar 2008
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| Posted: Tue Apr 22, 2008 8:21 pm Post subject: |
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Nice chicken run  and your dogs are definetley the best way to keep foxes out |
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Esther.R
Joined: 03 Jan 2008
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Location: Shetland
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Thats miniature Shetland pony size  not dog size! Lovely dog though and great job! |
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duckmomma
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The run is brilliant well done!!!!
What a beautifull little girl you must be very proud
Your gonna have to get a shotgun by the time she is sixteen to keep the lads from the door  |
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