Rebuilding the chicken run

We are planning to hatch more chickens so we can supply the increased local market for eggs and sell hens to those who have, under the lockdown, developed an interest in keeping chickens. The old fruitcage on the nearside plot had been used for a chicken run (most notably during the avian flu crisis a couple of years ago when all poultry was required to be kept caged.) Since then, the goats have knocked it about and much of the netting was damaged though the frame remained in good shape. SO, last week, we recovered the fruitcage with new chicken wire. In it is Gingie, our ginger nut range cockerel, along with 6 hens. The first eggs from the fruitcage will go into the incubator this week.