Unfortunately not. It's a solid metal pen, with 3 partitions. We'd have to cut it with a grinder to dismantle it and then weld it together again. It was originally build to house dogs, not chickens, so it's a big, heavy, strong thing. Perfect for everything except moving it lol
Even a non-working dog will be some deterrent to predators and if he's good and doesn't bother the livestock and good with your kids, he's an asset
My DS is bugging me to get us a dog, but I'm not quite ready yet… I'm thinking if/when I do, I'll probably either buy a Bullterrier puppy from a reputable breeder (I LOVE Bullies, grew up with them), or adopt a dog from an animal shelter.
Well, that stinks! Maybe you can sell it and use the money for a new pen?
I thought of it, but… I don't plan to stay here in this house forever. Eventually I would like to move into my own place and I am not going to find another pen like that easily. It's a great pen for housing broodies, cockerels, breeding pairs… I'm hesitant to sell it if I know I'm probably going to need something like that in future and that one was a once off, made by someone for housing dogs. I've not seen anything similar for sale here yet. My landlord assured me that the pen is not in his way where it is right now, it can stay there for as long as needed he said. So it may… And I need to start thinking about Plan B. Which looks like building something from scratch.
I've found that grass-only compost piles (made with green grass) heat up very nicely—and quickly! It cooks down a lot, in terms of mass. After the hot phase, it cools out. And then I find that in my piles made that way, I soon see a lot of red-wiggler worms. So if I leave them undisturbed for some weeks, the pile winds up being mostly worm castings (very rich and biologically active).
