"KingLillis" wrote in message
Thankyou for your reply.

I guess I will give the dome a try with the polypipe and try and cover it
over with some tarps. I live in Brisbane so our winters are not that
cold.

I really want to try this design as it utilises the chooks as tractors for
the mandala garden. I do have another book that uses strawbale as
housing -
but you can't make a round chookhouse out of strawbale! grin

I'd like to hear how you go with the construction as I'd really like to get
some geese and would like to have them out in a paddock rather than in the
chook orchard. I've thought that a dome would be a good idea for geese but
have always been a bit too idle to bother to build one and then it's the
usual catch -22: can't get geese till I have accommodation, don't have accom
so can't get geese.

I've just spent the last day building chook nests made out of lawn mower
grass catchers which sit up on a stand. A lot of fiddlefaddling about for
such a simple thing but hopefully it will work. Because of the drought I
have rats around the chook pen and the chooks ill only use the high nest box
and the pressure on that has been too much.

I must go back out there now and install the unit into one of the sheds (an
old half tank on its side- this MUST go when I get out of hospital as I'm
sick of the sight of it).

Report back please on the success of the chook dome and how effective they
are at clearing the beds.