Chicken's New Home

We decided that our chickens needed more grass.  We have been letting them out of their run to walk around as they want, but they are too interested in the garden.  So I marked out a 40'x50' area next to the garden for the chicken's new home.  After pricing out fencing, I decided on welded wire fencing and NOT buying the T-posts, but to use the posts from the split rail fence we had lying around.  And since we were using the posts, we figured we might as well put the rails in too and make it look nice.

I dug 5 holes the first day and set the posts.  Then I decided to invest in a 3pt post hole digger.  After that, we got the rest of the posts set in just under 2 hours.  With the split rail fence up, we set out putting up the welded wire fence.  I went with 4 foot high fence and made sure that the coop and waterer were far enough away from the fence that the chickens couldn't jump/flap to the top of it.

The chickens love their new home, with all the grass and bugs they can eat.  With 2000 sq.ft. of space for 5 chickens, I don't expect that they'll be able to mow this area down to dirt.