New chookhouses; shed progress

I took these photos last month.

The new chookie housing will be in a long poly tunnel clad in chicken wire to about 1800mm high, than hail netting over the top. Here's hoping the foxes won't get past the kelpie to figure out that the hail netting isn't as strong as it looks.

First photo is of the first "polyarch" with Dave holding it up to about where it's meant to go.









Second photo of the measuring process. It's not vital that everything is perfectly square, but the closer it is, the better the wire will go on.














Third photo of progress just before dark. I had to wait for Dave's help to get the poly pipe threaded right over the star pickets properly, so they look a bit odd here, especially the curly one that I just couldn't get to thread over the second post. It came good in the end, but by then it was too dark to take a photo.

Next steps:
* make a door frame at each end plus on the internal dividing "walls"
* hang the doors, make a wall out of chicken wire from door frame to polypipe hoop, for ends and internal dividers
* dig in a row of vertical sheets of recycled roofing iron at the base of the uphill side and attach them to the polypipe frame
* add a run of chicken wire above the roofing iron
* attach a couple of runs of chicken wire to the base of the downhill side
* stretch hail nettting over the top, attach to chicken wire on both sides
* move out to the block, bringing chooks to their new home!

Last photo - Dave working on the shed roof. He was planning to go out to the block today to work on it, but a neighbour from out there dropped in this morning, said it was snowing as she went home late last night, and it was blowing a gale when she left this morning.

We need the shed set up and catching water in the old tin tank, so that we don't have to cart drinking water with us every time we go out there to work on the house.