The English Home

Chicken Run

’ve spent the last few days making a fruit cage extra secure with layers of wire mesh over the netting, as well as rolling it out flat and firmly pegging it into the ground so that it acts as a foot-wide skirt around the entire exterior. These enforcements are not extra security for raspberries, but for my hens, who, with all this modified chicken-run effort, can peck about safely within what is now more of an aviary. Hopefully, the enforcements will stop foxes from chewing or digging into them. There’s

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