Building an aviary

[Dfarago]

My husband and I want to build an aviary for our Muscovies. The plan is a 50ft x 50ft around 7ft tall. But we’re still in the learning stages on building stuff.

Any advice on materials, tutorial videos and/or best mesh to enclose it? We want this thing to be huge. Also any advice or pointers on housing and water systems would be appreciated.

 

[Arbutus Peregrine]

My husband and I want to build an aviary for our Muscovies. The plan is a 50ft x 50ft around 7ft tall. But we’re still in the learning stages on building stuff.

Any advice on materials, tutorial videos and/or best mesh to enclose it? We want this thing to be huge. Also any advice or pointers on housing and water systems would be appreciated.

I love all the ideas I get from watching this company's videos. Here are some specific to ducks:

 

[Arbutus Peregrine]

I think you can do a lot with a very comic duck house and then cheaper fencing. You can even install bird netting low cost.

 

[Arbutus Peregrine]

Solid not comic!!!

 

[Arbutus Peregrine]

 

[Miss Lydia]

Go down to the ornamental forum down below this forum. These members keep fowl they don’t want flying off I am sure you’ll get some great ideas there.

 

[DuckyDonna]

We just finished our big huge duck run that is totally covered. It's approximately 35' x 40'. We did it ourselves and it was a lot of very hard work and took over 2 months to complete.

We used 4 x 4's for vertical supports which were all cemented in the ground. It makes it very easy for me to section off parts of the run for "problem drakes".

Hardware cloth was used all up the sides and on the bottom of the run with welded wire fencing covering the whole top. It's so big that it's hard to get good pictures. We've added a tin roof over the open area where the pens are. I don't worry about flying predators anymore!

 

[Miss Lydia]

How could I totally forget about your awesome set up @DuckyDonna .

 

[Dfarago]

We just finished our big huge duck run that is totally covered. It's approximately 35' x 40'. We did it ourselves and it was a lot of very hard work and took over 2 months to complete.

We used 4 x 4's for vertical supports which were all cemented in the ground. It makes it very easy for me to section off parts of the run for "problem drakes".

Hardware cloth was used all up the sides and on the bottom of the run with welded wire fencing covering the whole top. It's so big that it's hard to get good pictures. We've added a tin roof over the open area where the pens are. I don't worry about flying predators anymore!View attachment 1948498 View attachment 1948497 View attachment 1948499 View attachment 1948500 View attachment 1948502

do you know a good place to get welded wire like you have On your roof? How big were the panels?

 

[DuckyDonna]

do you know a good place to get welded wire like you have On your roof? How big were the panels?

I got it all at Tractor Supply 19 ga 2" x 4". We used 3 rolls + of 4 ' x 100' wire.