Rural Gardening: Types of Guineas , 1 by Photographer

Photographer wrote:
TamaraFaye, Here he is in all his royal whatever....LOL He's a bit mean toward some of the chickens .... like most guinea roos. I like that he's a different color. He sure stands out in the crowd. He's perched on the chicken shed screen door.

This chicken shed is built like a bomb shelter. I used triple heavy gauge corrugated metal siding/roofing material. The metal corrugated sheets are held in place by 1/4 inch hex-head lag screws that are 2 inches long ... each with a washer. We crank tightened the lag screws with a ratchet into the posts or the 2X4's attached to the posts. I'd estimate we put 8 of the quite heavy duty lag screws through each piece of metal siding ... mounted on OSB or1/2 inch plywood that is nailed to the frame .... 4 inch posts that are 8 feet long with a few 2X4's for added strength between the posts. We have 8 posts. We buried each post 2-3 feet in the ground. I honestly know it would hold up against 125 MPH winds. I should get a photo of it. It is indestructable. The shed is 8ft X 8ft and 5 ft on the short side and 6 ft on the tall side. I have just the area around the doorway to finish covering with the corrugated metal siding. Cutting the corrugated metal siding with metal nippers is difficult and kinda dangerous.

If you look in the distance of this photo you can see the dry foothills ... covered by cheat grass, rocks and tiny little cactus. In the foreground you can see the wheat across the highway and the apple orchards further up. This photo shows precisely what irrigation projects do for Eastern Washington state. No one would live here in this valley were it not for the irrigation water. Kelly in Moxee

This message was edited Jun 27, 2008 8:59 PM