Backyard city chicken run update. This week I finished digging the needed trench to bury the hardware cloth the appropriate 12". Who would think so much dirt would come from such a small opening in "Mother Earth"! As you can see I got a little wiser this time and put a tarp down so it will be easier to put all that dirt back! When I did the shorter piece of fencing in the front I did not think to do this. It was not only more difficult to move the dirt back into the trench but I came up short! Some of the dirt of course became fixed where I placed it. Lesson learned; use a tarp.
Today is to be another beautiful day in Raleigh, NC so I hope to finish the bottom hardware cloth project. Once again I bought a 50 foot roll of 1/2" by 3'h hardware cloth. I'm fairly certain it will be enough to complete the bottom part of the fencing. The upper portion of the chicken run will be a heavy gauge chicken wire, that will be part 4.
The above picture was taken Dec. 16,2012 and shows the back of the chicken run.
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