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They never end. Who would have guessed that I have just splurged £5.99 at Argos to invite another mousyfecker into my house later today?
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It's raining, so these are taken from indoor and are currently the best I can do. (Sorry - Australian rain is either on or off and there seems to be nothing in between. and the on, stays on for days at a time. It wasn't due until this afternoon, but arrived early at 10am!).
Right, the Chook House is an old stable block (the original from the 70's when the place was first 'carved' out of the wilds). The posts are substantial and red wood eucalyptus and don't budge, nor can we move them. Even getting a nail into them is hard work with most nails bending on the first hammer, and all holes having to be pre-drilled. So nothing much can be changed. (sorry to sound like I'm being difficult, but even thin planks of wood, like the fencing bends nails and holes need pre-drilling!)
The Chook house, enclosure (part of) and one of the points they get out of, but can't get back in once they are out (hence the plank of wood leading up to the access point). There is an inner run to the left of the chook house as well as the whole of what you see in front which we call the outer run. It is not separated down the middle, so the open gate is actually in the middle of the outer run fence rather than on an edge. Under the plank is the gate support and a bore water stand pipe (not moveable at all).
Another of the access points that they could use. The whole of that fence is 'trouble'. What you can only just make out is that the end of the down the hill fence does not stop where the other one coming in from the left meets it. It goes down another 1-1.5 meters before becoming a major support for the next gate (which is currently held shut with pegs holding the chicken wire down). The plan is that gate, or one next to it, will be the gate we open for them to go down the hill and into the paddock rather than up the hill into the veg plot and garden.
Space for the next gate and also another 'headache'. Those 3 posts can not be moved and they can jump onto the lowest one, walk up the plank and get across there - and not get back in again...
Some of the veg plot and the raised veg beds. Scale is probably 15-20m (?) downhill by 10m across it? (of what you can see) I'm useless at guessing these so have probably underestimated it. But the plan is to fence from the open gate to the house, along the house (it being typical Australia and built onto a mountainside means that there is an area under the house that is accessible for the entire length of the house and even I can stand up at the downhill end!), then across at the top (a long way away, this is a large single storey house - 3 bed, large lounge, sunroom and laundry, large kitchen and veranda) with a gate at top and bottom wide enough to accommodate and Australian wheelbarrow which is much wider than a UK one!
Widest view my camera can manage from as far away as possible to show overall picture. Hope was that chooks would 'go downhill' rather than uphill. Plenty of access can be done in that direction.
So currently I have 2 access points out of the chook run that lead directly into the veg plot area and leave the chooks unable to get back out of the veg plot area once I have fenced the veg plot in. 30m of fencing may only just be enough to fence the veg plot in. We already have the fencing and the stakes, just not the wood to create the gates. It will be a made to measure on the spot type of job because of the landscape.
OK the gate. What is not overly apparent is that there are 2 cross bars and diagonal bar behind the gate, plus 2 major supporting posts. And just to make life more fun, there is a space for a gate, another major supporting post and then fencing and benches (great starting points to fly up to, then hop up to the top of the fence, walk along and then jump/flutter across the missing gate space to the supporting post for the next gate, up the cross bar straight onto the supporting post for the gate you are seeing (the one that is open). At the base of that gate is the start of the veg plot and one of the veg borders. (I need to dig out the soil that has been washed downhill and collected against the wooden sleepers.)
It's raining, so these are taken from indoor and are currently the best I can do. (Sorry - Australian rain is either on or off and there seems to be nothing in between. and the on, stays on for days at a time. It wasn't due until this afternoon, but arrived early at 10am!).
Right, the Chook House is an old stable block (the original from the 70's when the place was first 'carved' out of the wilds). The posts are substantial and red wood eucalyptus and don't budge, nor can we move them. Even getting a nail into them is hard work with most nails bending on the first hammer, and all holes having to be pre-drilled. So nothing much can be changed. (sorry to sound like I'm being difficult, but even thin planks of wood, like the fencing bends nails and holes need pre-drilling!)
The Chook house, enclosure (part of) and one of the points they get out of, but can't get back in once they are out (hence the plank of wood leading up to the access point). There is an inner run to the left of the chook house as well as the whole of what you see in front which we call the outer run. It is not separated down the middle, so the open gate is actually in the middle of the outer run fence rather than on an edge. Under the plank is the gate support and a bore water stand pipe (not moveable at all).
Another of the access points that they could use. The whole of that fence is 'trouble'. What you can only just make out is that the end of the down the hill fence does not stop where the other one coming in from the left meets it. It goes down another 1-1.5 meters before becoming a major support for the next gate (which is currently held shut with pegs holding the chicken wire down). The plan is that gate, or one next to it, will be the gate we open for them to go down the hill and into the paddock rather than up the hill into the veg plot and garden.
Space for the next gate and also another 'headache'. Those 3 posts can not be moved and they can jump onto the lowest one, walk up the plank and get across there - and not get back in again...
Some of the veg plot and the raised veg beds. Scale is probably 15-20m (?) downhill by 10m across it? (of what you can see) I'm useless at guessing these so have probably underestimated it. But the plan is to fence from the open gate to the house, along the house (it being typical Australia and built onto a mountainside means that there is an area under the house that is accessible for the entire length of the house and even I can stand up at the downhill end!), then across at the top (a long way away, this is a large single storey house - 3 bed, large lounge, sunroom and laundry, large kitchen and veranda) with a gate at top and bottom wide enough to accommodate and Australian wheelbarrow which is much wider than a UK one!
Widest view my camera can manage from as far away as possible to show overall picture. Hope was that chooks would 'go downhill' rather than uphill. Plenty of access can be done in that direction.
So currently I have 2 access points out of the chook run that lead directly into the veg plot area and leave the chooks unable to get back out of the veg plot area once I have fenced the veg plot in. 30m of fencing may only just be enough to fence the veg plot in. We already have the fencing and the stakes, just not the wood to create the gates. It will be a made to measure on the spot type of job because of the landscape.
OK the gate. What is not overly apparent is that there are 2 cross bars and diagonal bar behind the gate, plus 2 major supporting posts. And just to make life more fun, there is a space for a gate, another major supporting post and then fencing and benches (great starting points to fly up to, then hop up to the top of the fence, walk along and then jump/flutter across the missing gate space to the supporting post for the next gate, up the cross bar straight onto the supporting post for the gate you are seeing (the one that is open). At the base of that gate is the start of the veg plot and one of the veg borders. (I need to dig out the soil that has been washed downhill and collected against the wooden sleepers.)
Levo-Lon
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Busy Bee .. @SatNavSaysStraightOn ,good for you girl..
off to Sherwood for the day with son in law , few hrs cardio trying to keep up ..
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off to Sherwood for the day with son in law , few hrs cardio trying to keep up ..
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Hill Wimp
Fair weathered,fair minded but easily persuaded.
At the vets with the Ginger Ninja.
He is not impressed.
He is not impressed.
potsy
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Waiting in for the parcel I was supposed to wait in for yesterday but missed, it looks a bit gloomy and grey out there.
Hopefully I can get out later as I need my mop top cutting, and I have another load of junk to tip.
Hopefully I can get out later as I need my mop top cutting, and I have another load of junk to tip.
raleighnut
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I hope all is okay x
coffeejo
Ælfrēd
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Poor guy.
potsy
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Hill Wimp
Fair weathered,fair minded but easily persuaded.
Ninja saw the chief vet today who promptly took one look at him and asked to take him home.
She also took what we think is the point of a rose thorn off the corner of his eye which was not there the other day but may have worked its way out of the eye.
Anyway he suckered her in with his good looks and cuteness so much that she didnt charge us
Sasha is due at the vets in a couple of weeks for her annual jab. Little does Henry know he is going to so that he can charm the vet again into not charging us
She also took what we think is the point of a rose thorn off the corner of his eye which was not there the other day but may have worked its way out of the eye.
Anyway he suckered her in with his good looks and cuteness so much that she didnt charge us
Sasha is due at the vets in a couple of weeks for her annual jab. Little does Henry know he is going to so that he can charm the vet again into not charging us
coffeejo
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Who was the chap in the fairy tale that fell into the rose bushes?
Hill Wimp
Fair weathered,fair minded but easily persuaded.
The vet happened to mention she had a goose at home that had a poorly eye and was having to have eye cream put on each day. Apparently she has to sit on the goose to do it.
Having had geese before i am so glad i never had to do that
Having had geese before i am so glad i never had to do that
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