building paradise for the birds

[Chaneys Ranch]

Quote: Fermenting is very good for all your poultry, waterfowl and most livestock. If you raise birds for the table you will really appreciate it too, better flavor in the bird, less odor at processing. It has been awesome for my hogs, better weight gain and healthier pigs too.

heres is the incubator that i am making for the chickens..

I have a sportsman 1502 digital incubator, but I still hatch in my coolerbator! You will be very glad you built this. Goose eggs especially if you raise them, they are the worst for "shrink wrapping". Been a true life saver for my muscovy hatches too.

 

[perchie.girl]

when I posted this reply originally I didnt intend that people try to let their guineas raise there own, Just that they could.

My plan is to raise Jumbos for both eggs meat and Keets. Being that they will be money producers I wont be free ranging them.... So beings that they will be in close quarters all eggs will get collected. And either incubated or stuck under a broody. I would love to have a sportsman... but I will probably make an incubator if I need to go into production

Yep Birds under a year old are froot loops... the older they get the more causal they get about everything.

deb

 

[MsPoultry]

heres is the incubator that i am making for the chickens..

(Sorry I'm having a hard time keeping up) You must tell me more about that incubator I want to make one

 

[Chaneys Ranch]

Quote: when I posted this reply originally I didnt intend that people try to let their guineas raise there own, Just that they could.

My plan is to raise Jumbos for both eggs meat and Keets. Being that they will be money producers I wont be free ranging them.... So beings that they will be in close quarters all eggs will get collected. And either incubated or stuck under a broody. I would love to have a sportsman... but I will probably make an incubator if I need to go into production

Yep Birds under a year old are froot loops... the older they get the more causal they get about everything.

deb

I love my guinea, they are priceless having the garden plots for food. They dont eat my garden or especially my tomatoes. They eat bugs, lots of them, dont mess with the plants in the garden at all. We have tons of tomato worms and grasshoppers if I dont have guinea. They also scream and panic if somethings here that shouldnt be! Very good alarms. They help my turkey and geese look out for my other birds. I rarely have any problem with a predator.

 

[birdman55]

Fermenting is very good for all your poultry, waterfowl and most livestock. If you raise birds for the table you will really appreciate it too, better flavor in the bird, less odor at processing. It has been awesome for my hogs, better weight gain and healthier pigs too.

I have a sportsman 1502 digital incubator, but I still hatch in my coolerbator! You will be very glad you built this. Goose eggs especially if you raise them, they are the worst for "shrink wrapping". Been a true life saver for my muscovy hatches too.

i will try and get this done quickly i wanna make live four more...but i learned about how to make it online...you can actually build a really big one with humidifier and egg turner for really cheap...you just gotta get the parts and do it yourself..so im going to start with these which you can make for about 75$ and then once i get comfy with these i will make the big one..the big one has a section at the bottom where you can keep the hatched chicks for a day before you move them...so it will be quite different to do all this at once but whatever right...got to do it

(Sorry I'm having a hard time keeping up)

You must tell me more about that incubator I want to make one

i will go thru step by step at night with pictures on how to make it...so please let everyone know this is more then just building a couple of coops...its what i have learned from many people put into one environment...the bird paradise...it will take about a year to complete all of this but you can watch as it gets nicer and nicer and more effective...so here we go heres some pics

80 percent hung with wire now onto the backside....

dust bathing on the wrong side of the coops...lol seem to me they like it



chickens and there feed

thanks jim for the ideas..my thumb is thankful...nothing like a good ol needle nose and nail...it goes along way when doing the work yourself

 

[birdman55]

getting the saw set up and the netting...ill will return with some more pics...im going to be installing the net on top and then putting a roof over the top after winter....but i will not remove the netting so if the birds jump up they will not hit there head and break it...i was picking up some birds and one peach golden flew up and hit their head....it broke its neck right in front of me...so i have the idea of placing the nettting under the roof so that will not happen...i was sad and it wasnt even my bird...the guy goes well that will happen like it was no big deal..simple construction to make sure that wont happen will keep more of your birds alive... that guy had a very large set up , pond everything you can name and prolly 50 pens....so keep your head up if anything like this happens and just do some preventative things so such incidents dont happen...ill be back...so thanks for watching

 

[perchie.girl]

getting the saw set up and the netting...ill will return with some more pics...im going to be installing the net on top and then putting a roof over the top after winter....but i will not remove the netting so if the birds jump up they will not hit there head and break it...i was picking up some birds and one peach golden flew up and hit their head....it broke its neck right in front of me...so i have the idea of placing the nettting under the roof so that will not happen...i was sad and it wasnt even my bird...the guy goes well that will happen like it was no big deal..simple construction to make sure that wont happen will keep more of your birds alive... that guy had a very large set up , pond everything you can name and prolly 50 pens....so keep your head up if anything like this happens and just do some preventative things so such incidents dont happen...ill be back...so thanks for watching

Good idea about the net Buffer.... When I worked in the pet shop the button quail always had a Bonk on their heads from hitting the tops of the cage. You could also use tarp for the buffer if you want to use the net for other areas. though i suspect net would live longer.

My coop is realy a chainlink enclosure. I cannot climb a ladder I get about with a Rolling walker. So I put my roofs inside the enclosure under the chainlink. Each partition is six by twelve feet. And in the desert while it does get very cold I dont have to concern myself so much about wet. A grand total of three inches of rain fell there last year and we had about 72 hours worth of snow. but it gets very very windy year round.... as well as hot in the summer.

So what I did was cut six foot lengths of PVC just long enough to go from grommet to grommet on a six foot wide tarp. Then I ran baling twine through the pvcand the grommets. Sort of like making stays in the tarps. now i could tie the tarp up inside the coop without having it hang or rubbing on the chainlink. Beauty of it is when it does rain very little water collects on the tarps at all because they are never flat they always have little peaks and valleys. The tarps I buy are six by eight.... enough to cover three quarters of an enclosuer.

If I cant do a roof on my next coop I will be buying those tarps again... But I am really tired of not having a solid roof for my coop.

I have enough Tin from the old horse shelter to do most of my coop.... I just have to find someone willing to put it up for me. I have plans for major construction as well. But since I am handicapped by Many mobility issues I am limited to what I can do from the ground. Plus I already have the chainlink panels around 300 linear feet of them. Enough to do a 24 x 24 poultry house with about five or six partitions. the Guinea area can be divided if needed.





Part of my reasoning for the compact area is to be able to back the truck up and off load feed directly in the house. the very first partiton by the big door will be reinforced for Goats so I can have a couple. The stall mats will allow me to use my walker or a wheel chair if it comes to that. The roll out nests will have access in the aisle so will all feed and water.

Two exterior walls will be solid for prevailing winds. Along the guinea partition and along the guinea ell, counter, and feed bins. The other exterior walls will be half walls about two feet tall with a strip of Aviary panel wire four feet tall at the top. What this will do is allow pop doors to be made for the birds to get in and out of their coop to the poultry yard. For windy or cold days I can drop tarps to block the wind.

I hope to make a coop/poultry house set up so I can go in and be comfortable even on 105 degree days do the necessary work and even set a spell and enjoy my birds.

deb

 

[birdman55]

looks great deb...if you could put some pics of the coops up so i could see how they look not in graph form....everything looks different once built..my setup will be not pretty for the winter but have to get it done for the mating season and then i will be adding to it to make it nicer once the cold solid ground is gone...

so i incubated my very first chicks not to long ago and all i used was this...so anything can hatch chicks...remember back in the day women used to carry the eggs around in their bras so anything can hatch them...and this styro thing that i made...which ranged in temps from 95-103 did perfectly fine also the humidity was a lot lower then what people say for hatching and it worked great here are some pics
the birds a bit after they hatched


one peep after it hatched...

my male pit looking at the small little birdies that just hatched...he was confused as y this box was making chirping noises

these are the birds that hatched in the incubator below...they look better then the birds i bought locally....feet stronger and everything

this little white hen is always trying to help everywhere i go she is by me...

incubator that was used....very cheap and effective


a peep at what the inside looked like...the reason for me making one out of a cooler and using a digital thermostat is because it will keep the temps alot more perfect even tho with chickens i dont think that it matters...i think im going to bring in some eggs and use this incubator again....can fit a good 15 eggs in it...


finishing the last wall on the back...man this stuff takes so long by yourself...i cant get discouraged i have a big project to finish..but as you can see i spend alot of time on here for people to learn...

 

[18angovem]

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[perchie.girl]

@birdman55

Not built yet unfortunately. I have a link at the bottom of my signature for my coop rebuild .... with pix of the old coop. which was sixteen by twelve.

I dont live at my house at this time. I am care taking for my 98 year old grandmother. So all I can do is talk with drawings. BTW thats a solid model and once I get my software reinstalled I will be able to turn it around to any angle I want.

deb