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Cladding the Hen House

After a bit of bad weather, I managed to get the roof and external cladding onto the Hen House. The roof frame was too heavy for me to lift by myself, so I had a friend come over…

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Construction under way

I managed to get some work completed on the Hen House over the weekend. I got the floor frame onto the posts and screwed in position. The floor was very heavy as it’s made out of 1.6mm thick…

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Curious Cows

I haven’t been able to do any work on the Hen House recently. The grass in our paddocks got up to knee height, so we asked a neighbor if he wanted to put his cows in the paddocks…

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Digging holes for the Hen House

Yesterday I had the fortunate experience of reminding myself why I don’t like digging holes. The Hen House is held off the ground on six 100×100 (4″x4″) treated posts concreted into the ground. The posts are only sunk…

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Hen House panels ready for construction

I can happily say our move into our new house went well, and even though we moved only days after the shortest day of the year, the weather was (mostly) favourable and we moved almost everything over the…

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The best Hen House….Ever

I’m about to move to a two acre lifestyle property in South Auckland and plan to build a Hen House to keep hens and ultimately, get fresh eggs. Since I work in the light gauge steel framing industry,…

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