{"id":2469,"date":"2021-11-30T12:49:19","date_gmt":"2021-11-30T20:49:19","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/buildingfromscratch.com\/?p=2469"},"modified":"2021-11-30T12:49:19","modified_gmt":"2021-11-30T20:49:19","slug":"house-tweaks-chicken-fence","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/buildingfromscratch.com\/index.php\/2021\/11\/30\/house-tweaks-chicken-fence\/","title":{"rendered":"House tweaks &#8211; chicken fence"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>We&#8217;ve got a great chicken coop, and have some movable fences we use to create a larger area to let the chickens out in from time to time.\u00a0 We finally settled on a more permanent &#8220;yard&#8221; area around the coop and our shed.<\/p>\n<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignnone size-large wp-image-2497\" src=\"http:\/\/buildingfromscratch.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/11\/IMG_8178-1280x960.jpeg\" alt=\"\" width=\"730\" height=\"548\" srcset=\"http:\/\/buildingfromscratch.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/11\/IMG_8178-1280x960.jpeg 1280w, http:\/\/buildingfromscratch.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/11\/IMG_8178-300x225.jpeg 300w, http:\/\/buildingfromscratch.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/11\/IMG_8178-768x576.jpeg 768w, http:\/\/buildingfromscratch.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/11\/IMG_8178-1536x1152.jpeg 1536w, http:\/\/buildingfromscratch.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/11\/IMG_8178-2048x1536.jpeg 2048w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 730px) 100vw, 730px\" \/> <img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignnone size-large wp-image-2498\" src=\"http:\/\/buildingfromscratch.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/11\/IMG_8453-1280x960.jpeg\" alt=\"\" width=\"730\" height=\"548\" srcset=\"http:\/\/buildingfromscratch.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/11\/IMG_8453-1280x960.jpeg 1280w, http:\/\/buildingfromscratch.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/11\/IMG_8453-300x225.jpeg 300w, http:\/\/buildingfromscratch.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/11\/IMG_8453-768x576.jpeg 768w, http:\/\/buildingfromscratch.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/11\/IMG_8453-1536x1152.jpeg 1536w, http:\/\/buildingfromscratch.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/11\/IMG_8453-2048x1536.jpeg 2048w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 730px) 100vw, 730px\" \/><\/p>\n<p>Wanting something more permanent, we had a fence built, partly inspired by the front yard fence of a house down the street.<\/p>\n<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignnone size-large wp-image-2499\" src=\"http:\/\/buildingfromscratch.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/11\/IMG_9735-1280x960.jpeg\" alt=\"\" width=\"730\" height=\"548\" srcset=\"http:\/\/buildingfromscratch.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/11\/IMG_9735-1280x960.jpeg 1280w, http:\/\/buildingfromscratch.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/11\/IMG_9735-300x225.jpeg 300w, http:\/\/buildingfromscratch.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/11\/IMG_9735-768x576.jpeg 768w, http:\/\/buildingfromscratch.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/11\/IMG_9735-1536x1152.jpeg 1536w, http:\/\/buildingfromscratch.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/11\/IMG_9735-2048x1536.jpeg 2048w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 730px) 100vw, 730px\" \/><\/p>\n<p>The end result turned out very nice.<\/p>\n<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignnone size-large wp-image-2500\" src=\"http:\/\/buildingfromscratch.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/11\/IMG_0036-1280x960.jpeg\" alt=\"\" width=\"730\" height=\"548\" srcset=\"http:\/\/buildingfromscratch.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/11\/IMG_0036-1280x960.jpeg 1280w, http:\/\/buildingfromscratch.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/11\/IMG_0036-300x225.jpeg 300w, http:\/\/buildingfromscratch.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/11\/IMG_0036-768x576.jpeg 768w, http:\/\/buildingfromscratch.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/11\/IMG_0036-1536x1152.jpeg 1536w, http:\/\/buildingfromscratch.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/11\/IMG_0036-2048x1536.jpeg 2048w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 730px) 100vw, 730px\" \/><\/p>\n<p>One neat feature we added is an inner gate the blocks off the run around the coop and forces the chicken into the run.<\/p>\n<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignnone size-large wp-image-2501\" src=\"http:\/\/buildingfromscratch.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/11\/IMG_0038-1280x960.jpeg\" alt=\"\" width=\"730\" height=\"548\" srcset=\"http:\/\/buildingfromscratch.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/11\/IMG_0038-1280x960.jpeg 1280w, http:\/\/buildingfromscratch.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/11\/IMG_0038-300x225.jpeg 300w, http:\/\/buildingfromscratch.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/11\/IMG_0038-768x576.jpeg 768w, http:\/\/buildingfromscratch.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/11\/IMG_0038-1536x1152.jpeg 1536w, http:\/\/buildingfromscratch.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/11\/IMG_0038-2048x1536.jpeg 2048w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 730px) 100vw, 730px\" \/> <img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignnone size-large wp-image-2502\" src=\"http:\/\/buildingfromscratch.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/11\/IMG_0037-768x1024.jpeg\" alt=\"\" width=\"730\" height=\"973\" srcset=\"http:\/\/buildingfromscratch.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/11\/IMG_0037-768x1024.jpeg 768w, http:\/\/buildingfromscratch.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/11\/IMG_0037-225x300.jpeg 225w, http:\/\/buildingfromscratch.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/11\/IMG_0037-1152x1536.jpeg 1152w, http:\/\/buildingfromscratch.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/11\/IMG_0037-1536x2048.jpeg 1536w, http:\/\/buildingfromscratch.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/11\/IMG_0037-scaled.jpeg 1920w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 730px) 100vw, 730px\" \/><\/p>\n<p>This comes in very useful when the chickens just won&#8217;t cooperate.\u00a0 There have been a few times where I&#8217;ve had to chase them around and around before finally catching them one by one to put into the run at 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