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building a chicken run/bird aviry

blushingbride_3 · 2009-11-17 14:38:58

Hi there, I'd like to build my chucks a nice covered run which i can walk in to help keep it clean etc & then they will live in there rather than free ranging so much as they have trashed my garden!:mad: bless em if they werent so cute they'd be in trouble! Now i want to build it from wood & wire but not sure where to…

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Tucker Posts: 1,098 Forumite

17 November 2009 at 11:12PM

Definitely use pressure treated timber or it will rot or you will spend more than the difference protecting it.

Try your local timber merchants. They should be far cheaper than B&Q.

Also shop about for wire. I got twice as much and the better quality stuff (rectangle shape from ebay, for the same price as B&Q's.

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