A little update. We let all our work go last year as we just needed to get on with so much in the house and decided that needed to be priority (sadly
) however now I have my mojo back to get chickens sooner rather than later!
It looks like finally the chicken dream is getting closer, J bought a roll of fencing yesterday for the day run (don't want them in my veggie garden and our yard isn't all fenced and there are dogs around so want to have them safely fenced in). I have decided to go with the 8 cm square, 1.2 m high (which is higher than my other stuff) fencing that we already have - I'd not even thought of using this but my friend said they'll be fine with that so it means I have 2 sides already done at our existing fence line which will save a fortune / time etc
My friend said that they can't / wont get through that and in terms of predators everyone has free range chooks on our road and that fencing on their gardens so I'm hoping it will be OK! I'm going to run it with the concrete base outside as a temporary measure so I can build them their proper coop without them being in there with me trying to eat screws etc. We have an A frame tractor maybe 1/2 built so will get that finished and some fencing up hopefully this week.
Will update!