GAME ROOSTERS.. a question...

[arherp]

I am getting some barrels for mine, but I have a question - how do you keep the coyotes/raccoons from just coming upand eating them during the night? And how do you keep them from baking in the summer?

 

[Red jungle fowl88]

dont understand youre question...

 

[arherp]

When they are sitting there tied to a barrel - how do you keep predators from eating them?

Those plastic barrels get really hot in the summer. Do the birds not care?

 

[Red jungle fowl88]

well never had mines like that but i would imagine they get loced up at night..

 

[Illia]

Tied to a barrel? Why? I've never heard of game owners doing this . . . I would think yes, they'd be attacked, if there is no other place for them to be. . . Kind of obvious? Do they have a place to sleep?

 

[arherp]

I have never heard of keeping roos in a different way.. It is a 55 gallon drum-type barrel, with a square cut in the side and a perch on the top of it. They are tied to the outside with a twine or lead. That is where they stay until they are killed, never moved.

 

[arherp]

They are tied to a barrel so they don't all kill each other, can you imagine 200 game roosters free ranging together? There would only be one left in an hours time! lol!

 

[fancbrd4me02]

Why would you go to so much trouble to house 200 roosters - isn't that expensive? If you are raising to eat, maybe try less fiesty breed that can be housed together.

 

[arherp]

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[5acrefarmer]

I live about 20 miles east of Joplin, Mo. Not to far from Kan., Ok state line and I was told it was illegal to tie game birds up. They used to have cock fights out in deep parts of the woods where the police would have a hard time getting to them, But I still see game roosters tied to a barrel. Most of them are tied to a plastic barrel instead of a metal barrel. They are much cooler. I have even seen some with doors on them to shut em up at night. But I would go with a plastic barrel for sure.