Heavy-gauge chicken wire. 1.8m high. Fine aviary wire run along base. Crushed concrete and other heavy things weighing base down.
Fence and gate.
Base of fence - heavy gauge chicken wire, then fine aviary wire, then crushed concrete and other things holding it down.
Gate lock and fence beyond.
Temporary pen from the Coqochikovan.
Chooks inside the caravan. The sink appears to be a favourite nesting place ...
Cupboards converted to nesting boxes. Broody Legbar demonstrating their use.
Australorp checking out the ex-kitchen bench.
Chooks on their temporary perches inside the caravan. Lovely view out of their windows beyond.
Fighting over who gets to sleep in the sink.
Three chooks in a sink.
Leghorn-type white layer looking elegant against the anodised aluminium wall.
View out through the caravan door to the temporary yard beyond.
Lots of chooks on perches, settling down for the night.
Settling for the night.
Checking out the cupboard for a bed.
Looking for bed.
View into the caravan from outside the door.
View of the Coqochikovan.
General view of the pen and caravan. (Yes, it's raining).
View of the pen and van.
Door closed on everyone.
Pen with a view. Looking toward one corner of the full paddock from the temporary pen. Small tractor with hen and chicks just in front.
Voew over to the distant raining hills.
Coqochikovan inside the closed run.
The full temporary setup - run and tractors.
The full temporary setup.
Distant corner of the paddock.
Corner of the run, looking toward fence in the background.
Looking up toward the house (all hazy in the rain).
Van and run.
A very wet enclosure!
I'll just pretend that blurriness was deliberate ...
Looking through the closed gate.
Rain, raindrops, scrubby flowering tea-tree, and the fence to the right.
Looking to the new pen from the verandah.
New pen through the raindrops.