As I mentioned previously, the new chicken run is being made by refurbishing an old disintegrating structure. The structure used to be a wall built around an aboveground swimming pool. When we moved into the property, the pool was gone except for some torn and shredded bits of pool lining. The structure itself consists of two walls of colour bond steel attached to steel posts. The other two boundaries of the structure were simply steel posts set into concrete. Overall, the area is about 6m x 10m.
To turn this into a chicken run, I needed to weld a supporting frame between the steel posts to support a low colour bond wall. The colour bond wall will reduce the wind flow into the chicken run and also reduce the access to the chicken run to unwanted animal visitors such as snakes and rats.
From above the colour bond wall to the top of the steel posts, I’ll be putting up chicken wire. The chicken wire will also cover the top of the run. The entire run will be enclosed to protect the chickens from some of our winged predators (wedge tailed eagles, common brown hawks and other birds of prey).
So far I have almost completed welding the supporting frame in place and I have clad 2/3rds of the colour bond wall in place.
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