{"id":57,"date":"2008-11-18T17:42:20","date_gmt":"2008-11-19T00:42:20","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.houseofcranks.com\/journal\/?p=57"},"modified":"2009-01-01T20:20:54","modified_gmt":"2009-01-02T03:20:54","slug":"chicken-run-mark-2","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/www.houseofcranks.com\/journal\/2008\/11\/chicken-run-mark-2\/","title":{"rendered":"Chicken run, mark 2"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>The <a href=\"http:\/\/www.houseofcranks.com\/journal\/2008\/09\/chicken-run-mark-i\/\">temporary chicken run<\/a> didn&#8217;t work out so well&#8211;the wire sides folded over and the top netting sagged enough that Miss Thing managed to get herself tangled up in it and nearly strangled herself. So a more permanent solution was called for. Our more permanent (but still constructed in such a way as to allow for easy reconfiguration) solution involved a whole bunch of 4&#8217;x4&#8242; frames made of 2&#215;2 treated lumber and 1&#215;2 welded wire fence, held in place with sturdy stakes and covered with chicken wire stapled to the top.<\/p>\n<p>The chickens seem pretty happy with it:<\/p>\n<p><a href='http:\/\/www.elsewhere.org\/mbedr\/?p=3032638193&#038;v=1' rel='shadowbox[run2];height=333;width=500' title='DSC04482.JPG'><img src='http:\/\/farm4.static.flickr.com\/3208\/3032638193_3e4c45ebb4_t.jpg' class='wp-flickr-image' alt='DSC04482.JPG'\/><\/a> <a href='http:\/\/www.elsewhere.org\/mbedr\/?p=3032639265&#038;v=1' rel='shadowbox[run2];height=333;width=500' title='DSC04487.JPG'><img src='http:\/\/farm4.static.flickr.com\/3045\/3032639265_6779284888_t.jpg' class='wp-flickr-image' alt='DSC04487.JPG'\/><\/a> <a href='http:\/\/www.elsewhere.org\/mbedr\/?p=3032640789&#038;v=1' rel='shadowbox[run2];height=333;width=500' title='DSC04486.JPG'><img src='http:\/\/farm4.static.flickr.com\/3228\/3032640789_24d3a038fe_t.jpg' class='wp-flickr-image' alt='DSC04486.JPG'\/><\/a> <a href='http:\/\/www.elsewhere.org\/mbedr\/?p=3033485826&#038;v=1' rel='shadowbox[run2];height=333;width=500' title='DSC04489.JPG'><img src='http:\/\/farm4.static.flickr.com\/3245\/3033485826_09449b9665_t.jpg' class='wp-flickr-image' alt='DSC04489.JPG'\/><\/a> <a href='http:\/\/www.elsewhere.org\/mbedr\/?p=3032643055&#038;v=1' rel='shadowbox[run2];height=333;width=500' title='DSC04494.JPG'><img src='http:\/\/farm4.static.flickr.com\/3139\/3032643055_47566a0617_t.jpg' class='wp-flickr-image' alt='DSC04494.JPG'\/><\/a> <a href='http:\/\/www.elsewhere.org\/mbedr\/?p=3032643841&#038;v=1' rel='shadowbox[run2];height=333;width=500' title='DSC04499.JPG'><img src='http:\/\/farm4.static.flickr.com\/3162\/3032643841_bd9a59d097_t.jpg' class='wp-flickr-image' alt='DSC04499.JPG'\/><\/a> <a href='http:\/\/www.elsewhere.org\/mbedr\/?p=3032645259&#038;v=1' rel='shadowbox[run2];height=333;width=500' title='DSC04504.JPG'><img src='http:\/\/farm4.static.flickr.com\/3295\/3032645259_c7a60b9f4b_t.jpg' class='wp-flickr-image' alt='DSC04504.JPG'\/><\/a> <a href='http:\/\/www.elsewhere.org\/mbedr\/?p=3033490102&#038;v=1' rel='shadowbox[run2];height=333;width=500' title='DSC04506.JPG'><img src='http:\/\/farm4.static.flickr.com\/3012\/3033490102_059789ffb3_t.jpg' class='wp-flickr-image' alt='DSC04506.JPG'\/><\/a><\/p>\n<p><br clear='all' \/><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The temporary chicken run didn&#8217;t work out so well&#8211;the wire sides folded over and the top netting sagged enough that Miss Thing managed to get herself tangled up in it and nearly strangled herself. 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Our more permanent (but still constructed in such a way as to allow &hellip; <a href=\"http:\/\/www.houseofcranks.com\/journal\/2008\/11\/chicken-run-mark-2\/\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading <span class=\"screen-reader-text\">Chicken run, mark 2<\/span> <span class=\"meta-nav\">&rarr;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false,"jetpack_publicize_message":"","jetpack_is_tweetstorm":false,"jetpack_publicize_feature_enabled":true},"categories":[6],"tags":[22,27,28],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/p5wUSd-V","_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.houseofcranks.com\/journal\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/57"}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.houseofcranks.com\/journal\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.houseofcranks.com\/journal\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.houseofcranks.com\/journal\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.houseofcranks.com\/journal\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=57"}],"version-history":[{"count":3,"href":"http:\/\/www.houseofcranks.com\/journal\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/57\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":59,"href":"http:\/\/www.houseofcranks.com\/journal\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/57\/revisions\/59"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.houseofcranks.com\/journal\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=57"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.houseofcranks.com\/journal\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=57"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.houseofcranks.com\/journal\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=57"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}