American Gamefowl

[Chickenman1994]

Well I got a 2 stall fly pen now it’s ugly as sin but it’ll do for the time being. I defiantly gotta replace the top on it

 

[roosterhavoc]

They make them all different sizes a guy up the road has them there 4x4x5. He blocks off 3 sides of them for winter

So it’s just a rectangular pen instead of a domed roof then?

 

[Chickenman1994]

Yeah he just uses some 2x2s and puts a roof on them.

 

[roosterhavoc]

Yeah he just uses some 2x2s and puts a roof on them.

Is there a benefit over the dome? Does the guy put a flat roof on it?

 

[roosterhavoc]

I’m curious cause occasionally I get feet of snow and it just slides off the dome. A flat roof will sag depending on what the roof material is made out of when the snow melts.

 

[roosterhavoc]

I copied this guys design since I liked it so much. Not the cheapest but they work pretty well for me. That’s what I raise chicks in

https://www.backyardchickens.com/articles/how-to-build-a-4-x-4-x-8-brood-pen.47882/

 

[Chickenman1994]

He uses like metal roofing off houses. There extremely strong. The newest ones he has he takes a 2x4 and lays it on its side in the front to kind of give it a slight pitch I drove past his house today and they didn’t have any snow on them my domes still do.

 

[roosterhavoc]

He uses like metal roofing off houses. There extremely strong. The newest ones he has he takes a 2x4 and lays it on its side in the front to kind of give it a slight pitch I drove past his house today and they didn’t have any snow on them my domes still do.

Well I still knock the snow off all my pens so they may have done the same. I would stop and ask them. Can’t hurt if you like the design.

 

[Chickenman1994]

I copied this guys design since I liked it so much. Not the cheapest but they work pretty well for me. That’s what I raise chicks in

https://www.backyardchickens.com/articles/how-to-build-a-4-x-4-x-8-brood-pen.47882/

To much work for me. Once I get a place cleared for my fly pens that’ll have 4x4s in the ground I plan to have 10 stalls 5ft wide 8 foot long and 8foot high.

 

[roosterhavoc]

To much work for me. Once I get a place cleared for my fly pens that’ll have 4x4s in the ground I plan to have 10 stalls 5ft wide 8 foot long and 8foot high.

Lol. They’re easy to build. Whatever floats your boat bud.