I have to say it feels very strange typing the above title as I have NEVER been excited about sheds before!
However it's been decided that after Christmas we are changing the garden around so that my hubby can have a double shed workshop and I can have a GUINEA SHED!
I'm so pleased. I also get some grass that I can make a permanent run on that can be accessed from a pen in the shed. I don't plan on keeping them permanently outside but in the summer months they can have bigger floor space and east access to grass whenever they like, that's got to be good. Plus now i'm always putting together runs / pens and taking them down etc for cleaning out their cages and giving them a run, this will solve that.
Plus I have a place to keep all the hutches / runs / hay / guinea paraphernalia I have in this house!.
So my question to all proud shed / run owners, what planning should I do? What do I want to include and what isn't so important to include?
i have just had my shed for my new guinea rescue and was so so excited in mine i have specially built hutches which fit nice along the walls and one thing i am going to put in is elecrtic and hope fully a work suface so i can chop all my vegies in there and listen to the radio while doing it and have light in there as well with a fold up chair so i can escape from the kids
i also have rugs down which i can shake off everyday but would like a carpet down then i can hoover it every day.also curtains and nets up the bigger things on this tread ie carpets curtains and nets and a work surface ,, will go into my new bigger shed which i hopefully get in a few weeks..
I love Handbag Hall (my girls shed). It's just a little 6x4 from B&Q but it is just brilliant. I have a double storey hutch/run combo in it but only to give them another level to use as they free range in it. We prepared the area to the side of it to build a run but will probably wait until the spring to construct it. I sowed it with a mixture of rye, timothy and orchard grass and whilst it did germinate it needs time to grow and strengthen now. The run will be full head height so I can walk into it and so that my kids can go in and sit down with the piggys.
I don't have electricity in mine but my piggys have always been outdoors so not used to electric heat source. I did (well my hubby did) install a very good solar light in it for me. He used boarding to cover the lower panels and then filled the space in between with the wood chip equine bedding I use to insulate it. Come spring time we will just remove the boards and shake the bedding out. Thinking of installing one of the lockable cat flaps to give them access to and from the run which I can lock at night.
I put some left over laminate flooring I had down and the whole thing is covered with the equine bedding. I got a chrome shower haning unit which clasps over the panelling and holds 3 water bottles and I made steps up to it out of patio slabs which I hope will also help their nails.
I took the door off a single hutch I no longer use and put it across the doorway to stop any piggys escaping but hubby has said will build me a screen door.
We laid wire underneath the soil in the run and it goes up onto the fence and closes off that gap under the shed. My bunny hutch is 6x3 foot and is placed against the fence. The run will also be built around it so that I can let the buns into the run when the piggys are not using it.
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