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companion planting - let's have it out!
"Terryc" wrote in message
... Chookie wrote: But the better solution is to deliver the cats to the RSPCA for the cost of petrol... pfut, it would work out more expensive in the long run. The idiots around here let them breed and run wild so there is a continuous supply. The only thingthat would work is to frebomb the "owners" i really think you should be able to put together a good chicken set up for far less than $700!!! we have 16 chooks atm, 3 chook houses which i made, and a great deal of fencing & it can't have cost more than $200 (which is a generous guess indeed). kylie |
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companion planting - let's have it out!
0tterbot wrote:
i really think you should be able to put together a good chicken set up for far less than $700!!! we have 16 chooks atm, 3 chook houses which i made, and a great deal of fencing & it can't have cost more than $200 (which is a generous guess indeed). I want to do something other than pokie small. We have two sheds,which I want to fit it between with a central hutch so I can control access to either sides. It also has to be strong enough to withstand the occassional small gum limb. so the price was based on having to buy 2" pipe and mesh. |
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companion planting - let's have it out!
"Terryc" wrote in message
... 0tterbot wrote: i really think you should be able to put together a good chicken set up for far less than $700!!! we have 16 chooks atm, 3 chook houses which i made, and a great deal of fencing & it can't have cost more than $200 (which is a generous guess indeed). I want to do something other than pokie small. We have two sheds,which I want to fit it between with a central hutch so I can control access to either sides. i'm not sure what you mean here, but my point was that chicken wire is relatively cheap, and chicken houses you build yourself even more so. the chooks can have a tiny house, that you don't go into (but organise access via lifting roof or wall). they enjoy lots of room for strolling about, but that's where wire is cheap, so no problems there. with a bigger shed, they can use it as extra living space, but they really like the sun on all but the absolute hottest days, so they mightn't use it much except at night & during bad weather. It also has to be strong enough to withstand the occassional small gum limb. so the price was based on having to buy 2" pipe and mesh. hmm, our yards are under some old gums ( i wasn't really thinking things through when deciding the location!) several small gum limbs have fallen. we have nylon fruit-tree mesh over the top (supported by fencing wire going across) & the chooks are fine - no falling limb has ever done any damage so far. the other thing is that chooks will nervously hang around their home spot (shed, house or whatnot) in windy weather, so provided the roof of their housing is all right, they should be fine even if a limb does come down on them & reach ground level. the roofs of our chook houses are made of old tin with star pickets for the legs, arranged over each house for shelter. anyway, your decision entirely of course, but it's really not expensive to organise chooks & their living quarters, as a general rule. if you want to, you can go as expensive as you like, but there are always cheaper ways to do things - which includes allowing for the possibility all the chooks will be killed by a falling limb (or that a limb will knock over the fence you laboriously put up!! which would be kind of worse, as chickens are actually pretty cheap to buy. well, that sounds awful, but you understand my point, i'm sure.) kylie |
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companion planting - let's have it out!
"0tterbot" wrote in message
... "Terryc" wrote in message ... Chookie wrote: But the better solution is to deliver the cats to the RSPCA for the cost of petrol... pfut, it would work out more expensive in the long run. The idiots around here let them breed and run wild so there is a continuous supply. The only thingthat would work is to frebomb the "owners" i really think you should be able to put together a good chicken set up for far less than $700!!! we have 16 chooks atm, 3 chook houses which i made, and a great deal of fencing & it can't have cost more than $200 (which is a generous guess indeed). kylie not that it matters, but upon reflection, we only have 15 atm. 14 hens (half of whom are totally mental) and a rooster. gawd, things are grim when you can't even remember how many chooks you've got!! /goes to look up "brain transplants" in the yellow pages kylie |
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