In this video, I show how I built a primitive, cheap and easy chicken run using recycled and foraged materials that is snake and other predators proof!
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Beautiful piece of property. I didn't know they had places like this in Australia. I thought it was all shrub. Wish I could see for myself. How about bugs and other creepy crawlies there. Thanks for the fun and informative videos. Love them all.
Daddy's "girls". Bringing gifts to your girls, Mark, does that make you a sugar daddy? Q. Was the "snake proof" an assumption after seeing that brown snake break in, in a previous video ?
You are the best. I love the old rustic natural look. I'm keen to get searching around for materials I can use to build something (alot smaller as I live in suburban area) like this.
Youre a doll. I was so glad to find your rustic but safe coop. I live in a forest in the PNW and will be using as much reclaimed materials as possible right from the land. thank you for your inspiration.
I will go for it !
Love the build, Mark. Really leaning towards purchasing a few hens for the property here. ONLY thing i would have done differently is the roof of the chicken run. I would have secured the mesh to the outside of the framework so that a crafty fox or any reptile weighing more than 10 pounds could not use their body weigh to get through the mesh secured from beneath the frame work.. if that makes sense? Love the channel Mark you have inspired me to start me own garden and quite possibly get a few hens running around here. Watching from the mountains of Alberta, Canada.
Great
sir u can plant also some repelant plant around ur coop for snakes and rats
I love it. Unique
First time here…great chicken house!!! I'll have a look around!! Hugs
How do you keep them safe during the day? I’ve got an acre and a quarter or less of that is for my chooks I went to put them into their coop last night which is actually predator proof but I found one dead unfortunately, no signs of foul play, no foam around mouth or any signs of bite marks ect – the poor bugger was just on its back/side stiff as a board with its eyes closed and wings close by its side!
It’s too big an area for me to re fence with ‘snake proof’ wire, any ideas?
If you also add an mesh "apron" all around, then not even mice can make holes, they say
This is epic ! I feel very encouraged to try to build something now. Thank you for sharing your experience.
Man! I got a random idea today to buy 5 or 6 chickens and decided to start on a coop / run. I have a back yard with plenty of timber / junk lying around and I definitely going to go for a DIY / rustic look just like yourself. Looks very secure and awesome if I do say so myself. Subscribed and thoroughly enjoyed your content.
Only good snake is a DEAD SNAKE
Good job on the chicken hotel!
I'm in the US and have a carpet python as a pet, it's so odd to see one as a farm pest! My girl's too dumb to know what a chicken is, but I'd probably run from a wild carpet python as big as her!
I love the rustic look
Definitely " art work " …my favorite kind of build..Use what you have .. make it work.
Hi Mark, I enjoyed this Video; However, I watched the other Video on free ranging Poultry and in a way its funny what peoples Ideas are and then again it shows the ignorance of people who do not know what they are talking about. Here in the USA they refer to free range poultry as the most healthy and benificial method to raise the chickens. I believe free range in an enclosure such as you have is by far the best way to go. Thanks for these videos they will be of great help for many, many, many people not just in Australia, but also here in the USA. I just found your videos about three months ago but I'm glad I found them. However I'm an "Old Pro" at gardening but my husband is another thing altogether. He doesn't know it but we're about to fence our whole 10 acres in Fox, Coyote, and other varmin proof fencing. I've lost a whole flock of geese, and genias (genus) and a large number of chickens. I'm getting a couple of fox hound dogs to help keep the others in check. Jessie from Arkansas, USA
Brilliant. Planning to move to the Daintree or Mossman. This is fantastic advice.
I love it!
That's a fabulous run!
Hi! Do you have a coop tour available?