Recent content by Ironpoint

I'm going to get it I think and this coming winter will put it to the test.

I would also like to know how it'll handle really cold Temps like below zero for weeks at a time.

Makes sense, I'll just start really picking apart the pen to make sure we don't have any holes. Then get the big pen up and bomb proof and move the birds over after they are a couple weeks old.

I live in North Dakota, the only bamboo here is dried and sold as fishing poles, little too cold for it. Predators from above are generally stopped by the net covering the whole pen. The coons and cats don't hang around long because I run a dog training and boarding kennel but I will certainly...

Tony the pen will have chicken wire around the entire base and tin around the north and west to block some wind. I'm aiming for dog proof and hopefully chick proof :) if I have two pens one large and one smaller would they be more likely to go broody in the 50x150 or the 16x32 do you think?

The ground will have a close to the same habitat that a wild ring neck uses. I know reeves in China are more of a woodland birds but I don't have any way to recreate that so I'm hoping the corn, grass, and other cover is good enough.

Hey I'm trying raising Reeves pheasants. I have one cock and three hens. I have a few questions. 1. If they have a 16x32 pen can you allow the hens to hatch the young then take them to a brooding box? If yes will she attempt another nest? 2. Is that big enough that the cock after he molts will...