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Those are great pictures of your beautiful birds.

What a shot! Nice!

Wow. NIce work. I'll have to give it a go like this. Will certainly take up less room

Really beautiful. So nice to have such a nice set-up!

Very interesting!

Nice job! Thanks for sharing the pictures.

Welcome to BYC!!

Would love to see a picture of the final masterpiece!

Yes, depending on your local predators. But we covered it with a thick mesh shade cloth (80%) and others would cover it with a tarp. And we had to go thru all of this gymnastics to avoid creating a run with a roof so we wouldn't run "a-fowl" of the city ordinance that limits how many...

We built a predator proof run using the chain link kennel by attaching 10' galvanized pipe across the top, creating "rafters". You can buy brackets to attach pipe to the frame, creating a T-shaped joint, without drilling or welding. We then used the rafters as support for the predator proof...

I just read your answer to SandyRiverChick. I couldn't see from the photo that there isn't a back wall to the run except the vinyl fence. So, you couldn't use the 10 foot long pipes in that case because they wouldn't have anything to attach to. I think this also explains why the wind was able to...

I've never used polycarbonate sheets so I don't know how it would perform. But think of the pipes as being round rafters and not flat like wooden rafters are. This may change what materials are best to use for the roof. The galvanized pipes that you would install across the top of the run I'm...

You can buy 10' galvanized pipes (that match the ones in the run) and also buy brackets designed to attach the pipes in a T shaped joint. The 10 footers will go across the shorter 10' dimension of the dog run. The brackets allow you to run one pipe into another pipe at a right angle without...

I'm just a newbie. We don't even have our chickens yet but if it were me, I"d think about if she starts doing this in the same place very time or if something that happens frequently has just occurred. Is she frightened of something that just happened among the flock? I did a search to find...

Thank you AidKD!