Does anyone know where you can buy Expanded mesh panels?

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

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!!

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

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

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.

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

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


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