Hey everybody welcome back to the homestead inside of the our chicken run I've been hitting this thing pretty hard trying to get it under control and I just want to take a minute and show you guys what I've got going on and Maybe give you some ideas or inspiration So first let's start on the outside of the run and I'll show you what I did around it for protection Anyway, let's get started First thing I did was install make sure my things out here. Yep Install some corner posts And they're eight foot tall and I buried them about two feet Maybe a little less in some places we live on a rock farm pretty much and then one thing I did do is Added a brace here And typically when you're putting an offense you want to have some sort of bracing that will Because when you pull the fence it's going to put tension on this post and it capable of pulling it over and So it's just good to have a brace going down like so Another big thing that we did is along the base of the Run I put in this half inch mesh Two feet out so I dug dug out about four inches deep This is more in some places and then place this half inch wire It's four foot wide and I folded it in half and put two feet on the ground and two foot up the fence And then I'll backfill all this dirt back on top of it But first I want to put in this This is some old deckboard that I got off of a project composite decking and I want to I I weed eat pretty often and If you've ever weeded you know it's fun hitting fences and it Tends to make holes and fences and stuff like that So if I put that there put the dirt up then it gives me something to Run the weeded it across and not tear up the fence Like I said we live on a rock farm so a lot of this area was all rock and Had to pull them out and backfill it, but it's all part of the game When it came to the corners of the run where the Half inch wire mesh I what I did show you here is I cut One long actually they pretty much overlap so you don't want to have an opening here Say you were to cut this one straight and this one straight You would have this opening here where there's no wire mesh so what I did was Just make it long make this other one long and then overlap them and that way You can see there nothing's gonna get in there the the purpose of the wire mesh is If a predator comes in or up to the fence It's gonna want to dig in there and try and get in and it's gonna dig a little bit and not be able to dig much further because There's metal wire down there, so that's the purpose of that So this is still a work in progress So I'm working on the gate now hopefully have a video up for that pretty soon Now we get to the inside This is all chicken wire six foot wide chicken wire and it runs off the fence there And all the way up and then I did tie off to the Chicken house chicken mansion chicken coop left this tree so I had to go around that I Didn't want to be in here and ducking down all the time the fence is six foot tall I'm six foot tall on a good day with boots on them definitely six foot. So what I did was See it up there. There's a cable running through right here and I attached it to the tree Basically just ran the cable through a old hose that I had I think everyone's got a holy hose somewhere and put a Cable clamp on there I picked up the cable just keep an eye out look online or Go to your local tow companies and they usually have to swap out cables on their trucks Someone here and there I did work for a tow company at once. So I know a guy and then basically just ran the cable through and then Pulled the wire over typically when you get used cables. They will have burrs on them. So wear your gloves and What I did to help with that is they put a Just an old piece of pipe I had laying around Cut a slit down it and slip that over the cable and that kind of acted like a roller to help me get the chicken wire on and it worked out pretty well A lot of things that I see in the research that I've been doing when people do their coop still usually You know do four by four posts every eight feet and and Like a wood Hedder, I guess you would call it across. I'm trying to use what I have I had Plenty of tea post hanging out. I have plenty of con do it hanging out. So I'm just other than the wood posts and the fencing I Was trying to use what I had So I did add conduit as like a top rail here and basically just Weaved it in and out of the fence and That just gave me some sort of Regidity kind of brought the whole fence line together because there is a lot of tension on this chicken wire here. There is a Bush in the middle of my chicken run. I did Hack it up pretty good on the top because it was Extending into the Roof area, but I did want to leave it because I want the you know chickens to have somewhere to hang out and Play around and all that stuff Most do we got the seam of the wires basically I just tied it together with some Almost like piano string wire cable string wire. Yeah, that's how I did that So basically that's what we've done so far and there's more to come I still got to do all the accessories for the chicken house ladder and What do you call Roost inside and a feeder in a water so much so yeah So I got to say about that. Thanks for watching. See you on the next one Watch out No, I'm not making a couch