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HISTORY | DOGS | HOME | FOOD | GARDEN The Chicken YardWe didn't just want a coop. We wanted a secure (= no raccoons) chicken yard, too. The design we settled on is a little irregular, just because of the lay of the land. CHICKEN PAGES On Memorial Day weekend, we built the base of pressure-treated pine four-by-six beams, using lag bolts and metal straps. Craig and Pat used all of their combined arsenal of power tools. Number 3 below is our Golden Spike moment, and number 4 is the completed base. The guys thought this was a particularly manly corner:
The next weekend, we built twelve four-by-eight modules out of two-by-fours and half-inch hardware cloth. These are the walls of the chicken pen. Then we assembled the pen (except for the roof). The roof was the hardest part. We hoisted four more modules up on the toprails of the pen. Then Pat climb up to finish it. (You can hardly see him up there in the loquat tree.) Last -- we were now in our third weekend -- we added cedar trim to sandwich in the hardware cloth (below) and tied the chicken yard to the coop (2). Time for the ribbon cutting ceremony! (3) Weegie was the first one out the door (below). She bailed on the ramp. We tried to get her to do it again, but she was -- chicken.
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