Teresa & Mike CHS - Our journal

[Mike CHS]

Teresa and I both seem to have picked up a cold bug at the wedding so it has been hard to get motivated the last couple of days. The weather was pretty and even though I got a late start today I got all of the wood line post holes dug and about half of them seated. I had to run into town to get more posts so that shoots a fair amount of time. This is the last major fence build and there will only be some high tensile installed after this. This run has some odd shaped legs because of the curvature of this piece of pasture but all together the fence build will be approximately 1300' and joins existing fence on one of the long legs. This will give us another almost 7 acres in permanent fence and will give us a lot better control of our pasture rotation. I will still have 20'-30' runs on the outside ege of all of the paddocks with no perimeter fence but I can put up netting to let the sheep eat that grass every month or so. That adds a small bit of work maintaining those areas but it borders a wooded area that needs reclaiming and I would rather do that with some working room and away from all fences.

 

[CntryBoy777]

I really like having a buffer area, too for predator control. The animals and me can see them approach much better, taking away a sneak attack. It gives me time for a better shot too.

 

[Mike CHS]

I do also Fred. I had planned on doing the tree line before the fence but with a whole bunch of lambs due in a few months the fence took priority. There is a big black dog or possible a coyote/dog mix that has been driving Maisy nuts that I have seen twice this week. I've been keeping my rifle handy if I can get a shot.

 

[Mike CHS]

Teresa has been putting the finishing touches on her new chicken coop. We are going to put all of the chickens in the same pen since it is so big. She did some really good problem solving on this one and literally did it all herself with no help except for the roofing material. I usually do the table saw cuts but she did all those too.

The doors on both sides are sliders to make it easier to access and clean.

 

[frustratedearthmother]

Wow - I am impressed! She does good work.

 

[CntryBoy777]

That looks really Good!!.....what is the overall size? It appears built on a couple of pallets.

 

[Baymule]

Nice job on the coop! Girl Power! (and Dewalt and Skil and Hitachi......)

 

[Mike CHS]

That looks really Good!!.....what is the overall size? It appears built on a couple of pallets.

It's 63" x 48" but has two levels of roost inside and has lots of room.

 

[Mike CHS]

We usually do projects like this together but on this one she kept picking times when I was doing something else so it was pretty obvious she wanted to do this one on her own. I stayed out of the way and you could tell she was happy when something hard got resolved.

 

[CntryBoy777]

That is good sized....sure does give me some really good ideas to incorporate into future structures....got it bookmarked, thanks for sharing it....