Building me a Breeding Pen (and lets see yours)

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falconertomt

falconertomt

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I am in the process of finishing my first breeding pen, The individual huches are 12"x24" with a sloped floor. There are 16 pens in the rack. Here are some photos. The bottom set still needs to be completed.

Let me know what you think, and show off yours!

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I am planning on starting with coturnix, and then adding in some gambel's. Just waiting for the incubator to arrive, then off to find eggs.
 
falconertomt said:
I am in the process of finishing my first breeding pen, The individual huches are 12"x24" with a sloped floor. There are 16 pens in the rack. Here are some photos. The bottom set still needs to be completed.
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Not bad. I would add some sort of tray below each cage to catch the droppings.
 
James the Bald said:
Not bad. I would add some sort of tray below each cage to catch the droppings.
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Yeah, that is in the mix. I am thinking about putting in some sort of waste collection setup, to minimize hauling. I think I can rig up 1/2 a 3" pvc pipe with some connectors (similar to the feeding trays) that I can scrape the poo into, and then into a bucket at the end. Would make cleanup really quick.

I finished the bottom set last night. all that is left is the waste collection.

On other notes, the incubator came yesterday. I have to give a shout out to incubator warehouse, I ordered from them Saturday night, with the 3-6 day UPS, and I got the thing yesterday. They assembled it, and had it to my door in 1.5 business days.

Now for Eggs.... (and a brooder)
 
falconertomt said:
Yeah, that is in the mix. I am thinking about putting in some sort of waste collection setup, to minimize hauling. I think I can rig up 1/2 a 3" pvc pipe with some connectors (similar to the feeding trays) that I can scrape the poo into, and then into a bucket at the end. Would make cleanup really quick.

I finished the bottom set last night. all that is left is the waste collection.

On other notes, the incubator came yesterday. I have to give a shout out to incubator warehouse, I ordered from them Saturday night, with the 3-6 day UPS, and I got the thing yesterday. They assembled it, and had it to my door in 1.5 business days.

Now for Eggs.... (and a brooder)
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Whatever you can do to make it as easy as possible to clean. I used to use a breeding cage but after a couple years the turd trays drove me insane.
 

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