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Smart thinking!I can't answer about the space you need, but if you did the smaller hoop houses to make it easier to move you could link them together by lining them up and adding "doors" that connected the structures.
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Smart thinking!I can't answer about the space you need, but if you did the smaller hoop houses to make it easier to move you could link them together by lining them up and adding "doors" that connected the structures.
One can never have enough greenhousesyou also have i nice greenhouse if you decide to go with a different type of pen down the road.
This was my initial thought, but I keep reading about how the heritage breeds have a tendency to fly out of their fenced in space if they don’t feel like it’s large enough and I started to get concerned that without our perimeter fencing, they’d be more susceptible to attacks from neighborhood dogs.I think I would build their one large stationary shelter you planned on anyways and use an electric poultry fencing around shelter until you can finish fencing in the rest. That way they already know where shelter is and used to using it from the start. Electric poultry netting can be moved to provide fresh ground for foraging if needed. When main fence is done all you have to do is remove electric fencing and away they go to free range all 7.5 acres, and they already know where home/roosting shelter and feed and water is to come back to at night. Plus, they can all live together from the start with no integration problems later on. In my opinion this would be easiest and best way to start out definitely cheaper and much less time consuming. Also, just to let you know Heritage turkeys prefer to roost outdoors you may want to build that shelter as open as possible with roof and semi closed in on a few sides of prevailing wind for blocking heavy winds. Mine will not use closed in coops. My birds roost outside no matter what the weather is. A few pics of my setup for my heritage turkeys. Might give you some ideas of what they like. You will see a 3 walled building in pics that at beginning I thought they would have for roosting. But very few ever roost in it, so I partitioned half off for feed/supply storage and a large enclosed brooder for poults in spring. Open half with a few large nesting boxes hens do use for nesting in spring.
Is that welded wire on the under side of the roof?Covered roost in one of my grow out pens.View attachment 2987719View attachment 2987721View attachment 2987722
Yes, with a very heavy duty tarp like truckers use for use on their trailers for hauling. It has been there for 6 years now and still looks like new.Is that welded wire on the under side of the roof?
Tarps don't hold up well here in the wind and UV damage at elevation.Yes, With a very heavy duty tarp over that. It has been there for 6 years now and still looks like new.
Maybe with it in the shade like it is and it supposed to have UV protection also. Plus, with the wire under for support and the netting over the top and it is nice and tight and very heavy it doesn't flap in wind at all. It still looks like new after 6 years.Tarps don't hold up well here in the wind and UV damage at elevation.
5200' elevation makes a difference even when they are UV protected. Almost constant wind doesn't help either.Maybe with it in the shade like it is and it supposed to have UV protection also. Plus, with the wire under for support and the netting over the top and it is nice and tight and very heavy it doesn't flap in wind at all. It still looks like new after 6 years.
I can believe that. It is tucked away pretty good where it is not out in open wind, and low end and lower side stops predominant winds from getting under I'm sure that helps also.5200' elevation makes a difference even when they are UV protected. Almost constant wind doesn't help either.