Does anyone know where you can buy Expanded mesh panels?

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Have you tried the place behind Sol D'Ebre.  Hierros Domingo I think.

HI Bigyin yes They only have punched sheet steel and welded mesh panels

Poor Stuart, what a 'mesh' you seem to be in. [smiley=2vrolijk_08.gif]

wire you rubbing it in about me mesh of a job, (must get these teeth fixed), tried a local fence but he hadn't any stolen panels in, there just seem to be barriers every which way I look!!

to save all the hassle of fencing these poor critters in why not cut out the time and expense by lobbing them straight in to the freezer....or barbie... whichever is required....?

What are you trying to fence in (or out) Stuart ?

Hi Bigyin

Not doing either I am trying to make a rolling riddle to tow behind the tractor giant version of a garden riddle, but rolled around two cart rims!

Oh, I see.  In that case my suggestions would be irellevant  :(  Be sure to post a piccy when you've cracked it huh ?

Bigyin wrote on Jun 10^th, 2010 at 11:24am:

Oh, I see.  In that case my suggestions would be irellevant  :(  Be sure to post a piccy when you've cracked it huh ?

Hi Bigyin
Haven't made the rolling riddle yet but the chicken shed is finished and populated one more reason NOT to herbicide

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Wow !!  That looks fantastic.  Is the frame metal or timber ?  If the latter, where do you buy your timber ?  We've been pondering whether to get a couple of chickens for eggs but we don't think we'd be up to slaughtering them for meat.  Are you really going non herbicide ?  If so, as I said before, I'd be interested in your barrow sprayer.

Made up of all sorts 2 x 1 timber )sorry timber from the UK)old extending regalos Metal for rendering, metal studding for plasterboard  chicken wire from Blascos and of course an old caravan for aluminium covering perspex window and door

Thas got to use everythin out here let nothin go down to the tip

Have you thought about using an old bed frame with some heavy ironmongery  to weight it down,I saw them being used in Morroco

I did quite an extended search for the expanded metal today.  No luck.  Although I like living here and the people, I have to admit that t'internet is hopeless here.  Plenty in Italy by the way  ;D
Presume you've tried asking in Big Mat.
By the way, can you give me a yes or no on your sprayer

Bigyin wrote on Jun 12^th, 2010 at 2:48pm:

Wow !!  That looks fantastic.  Is the frame metal or timber ?  If the latter, where do you buy your timber ?  We've been pondering whether to get a couple of chickens for eggs but we don't think we'd be up to slaughtering them for meat.  Are you really going non herbicide ?

We have chickens (have had for a few years now) but we recently enlarged/upgraded the chicken run.  The biggest question was what to make it out of as chain link fencing works out expensive.  In the end we made it out of the barriers that they use around many building sites.  They are 3.5m long and have a pole at either end plus a piece of metal to fix to the next one.  We concreted them in, bolted them together and have a chicken run on 10.5m x 10.5m. The barriers can be bought from Herraiz, around 22 euros a piece new or much less second hand (just ask what they have).  The coops I built from pallets, broken up, nails removed and an afternoons work to build.  For water I bought a dustbin from the Chinese bazzar, some pipe and fittings from Herraiz and some water feeders from a shop in Jesus (€1.60 each I think).

We also get our chickens for meat from the same shop, €2.50 per chicken and about a month to fatten up.  I just killed and gutted one tonight (the last of the 4 we had) and it weighed in at an amazing 2.825Kg after gutting - it's lunch for tomorrow. It has been fed on ecological feed, as are the rest of the chickens we have.

The same shop also sells pointer-layers at €5 each.

Keeping chickens is great.  You will despair at both hte flavour (or lack of it) if you go back to sop eggs, the same for the flavourless meat of the shop bought chickens.  If you really can't face killing your own chickens then at least buy 'Pollo de Corral', it costs more but the taste is well worth the difference.

Nigel

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A tip from the flintstones!! keep your chicken mesh below 20mm and better still 16mm then the local sparrows will not fly in and nick all your costly chicken feed!!

Also have cats to keep off the rats and mice also after the feed

Bigyin wrote on Jun 12^th, 2010 at 2:48pm:

Wow !!  That looks fantastic.  Is the frame metal or timber ?  If the latter, where do you buy your timber ?  We've been pondering whether to get a couple of chickens for eggs but we don't think we'd be up to slaughtering them for meat.  Are you really going non herbicide ?  If so, as I said before, I'd be interested in your barrow sprayer.

The main advantage of the chicken run and coop is that its mobile I can move it every other day in minutes with the use of a sack barrow, then the chickens can obliterate the next piece of land, no herbiciding needed and auto fertilizer plus added advantage we now no longer need a compost heap the chickens compost overnight and there are no ugly stinky barrels to empty!!