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  • #16
    Looks fantastic- good luck with your hens

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    • #17
      That looks great Flummery and sounds like great value for money to me.
      You'll be dying to get your hens now.

      From each according to his ability, to each according to his needs.

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      • #18
        Oh yes, getting twitchy! The run still needs a door on it, and the mesh stapling down at the bottom so the job continues. Still hoping for April 5th though!
        Whoever plants a garden believes in the future.

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        • #19
          WOW, lucky hens looks great bet you can't wait now
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          • #20
            looking good, they'll be lucky hens that reside there
            The love of gardening is a seed once sown never dies ...

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            • #21
              Looking great Flummery I was wondering on the size of run with 30m of that mesh . fancy coming to kent for a few days and building my poor chicks one :P they are living in fear atm and so am I.............
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              • #22
                Originally posted by shirlthegirl43 View Post
                Flum that looks wonderful. Can I ask where you got the angle iron stuff as that looks like a long-lasting and easy way to build a run.

                (deffo not posting a pic of our ramshackle affair now)
                It's called Dexion Shirl.........google it!
                My Majesty made for him a garden anew in order
                to present to him vegetables and all beautiful flowers.- Offerings of Thutmose III to Amon-Ra (1500 BCE)

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                • #23
                  Very powsh Flum! (Like Shirl I shan't be showing you mine though!)
                  My Majesty made for him a garden anew in order
                  to present to him vegetables and all beautiful flowers.- Offerings of Thutmose III to Amon-Ra (1500 BCE)

                  Diversify & prosper


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                  • #24
                    Originally posted by shirlthegirl43 View Post
                    Flum that looks wonderful. Can I ask where you got the angle iron stuff as that looks like a long-lasting and easy way to build a run.

                    (deffo not posting a pic of our ramshackle affair now)

                    Took the words out of my mouth Shirley. My run is a very bodged Heath Robinson affair. Wouldn't be out of place in Steptoe's yard! That angle iron stuff looks ideal.
                    Kirsty b xx

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                    • #25
                      Wow Ma Flum.... looks like it'll stop a Sherman tank never mind foxes! Very neat and Tidy job too....so who's the civil engineer? Truely a spectacular effort. The 5th will be here soon! Congrats and good luck.
                      Last edited by RedThorn; 16-03-2009, 10:00 PM.
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                      • #26
                        All looking grand at Flummery Towers! OK, OK, I know you think of it as Beak House. Have you got your lump of tree/large branch for the girls to perch on during the day?

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                        • #27
                          Cracking Hen Run!

                          Ok, so it's been months in the planning, weeks of measuring up and scratching heads, discussions on design, ordering relevent parts, building the base, building a hen house stand, slabbing the floor, laying the weed fabric, erecting the frame, and attaching the mesh.

                          Phew! You stand back and are satisfied at a Proper Job, Well Done.

                          You then install a couple of stone hens.

                          Suspect your neighbours have officially labelled you as a batty ol' bird yourself!

                          Seriously - it's looking FABULOUS, well done to you both.

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                          • #28
                            Originally posted by Hazel at the Hill View Post
                            Suspect your neighbours have officially labelled you as a batty ol' bird yourself!

                            I seriously doubt that it took stone birds for that to happen. She's lived there for years . . .

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                            • #29
                              Thank you Bilbo and Hazel - you can always trust your friends to give you away! Of COURSE I'm a batty old bird! I've spent a lifetime studying and researching that and now that I've just got good at it I'm not giving up!

                              The lump of log is currently still on the somewhat overgrown tree but the felling of that is further down the 'to do' list!

                              No civil engineers here - 2 uncivil geology graduates - but I am determined to fox-proof this if possible.

                              If I'd built it by myself, ramshackle wouldn't BEGIN to describe it!
                              Whoever plants a garden believes in the future.

                              www.vegheaven.blogspot.com Updated March 9th - Spring

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                              • #30
                                It's looking fab Flum!!
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