Pond Boss Forums GENERAL QUESTIONS Property Projects & Construction Need to raise some chickens and need help.

Thanks. I just did a bunch of reading. I think I got it figured out now! There's some things that need to be changed in the coop, and I have a pretty good idea of how much space I need for the run. Bigger is better, especially if my sister wants 50 birds. The fun part will be building the run. I used "T" posts, chickenwire and poultry netting when I raised pheasants, but this time I think I'll go with 4x4's and make a good framework with 2x4 top rail to firm up the chicken wire, and to make attaching the poultry netting easier. I got tired of hog ringing the poultry netting to the chicken wire pretty quick!

Might go rent a trencher for a day too. Kill a couple of birds with one stone so to speak. Trench in wire at the bottom of the run, trench in an airline to the pond from the stable, trench in drip irrigation main line in the orchard.