If you won the lottery...

[AliP]

and money wasn't an issue, what would you use to make the "perfect" predator-proof run and coop?

Alison

 

[rainbowrooster]

I would have a huge or several barns with a lot of natural light. With enough space I would keep them inside to avoid the diseases and parasites that come from wild birds.

 

[jtn42248]

I would have our entire 3.8 acres "installed" as an aviary with ponds, waterfalls, coops and nesting/brooding barns, lots of plants...the works.

 

[bucky52]

I would buy a big farm.I would have a big coop.with air condition for the hot summer months.i would have a big secure predator proof chicken yard.So nothing flying, crawling or walking could harm my girls.

 

[rainbowrooster]

I would have our entire 3.8 acres "installed" as an aviary with ponds, waterfalls, coops and nesting/brooding barns, lots of plants...the works.

Sounds nice. I love those big aviaries that some zoos have.

 

[jtn42248]

Sounds nice. I love those big aviaries that some zoos have.

Years ago I went to the Aviary at the Los Angeles Zoo and have wanted something like that ever since. If there was a way to fully enclose our property as an aviary and actually live in it I would be the happiest man on earth.

 

[Bryant Redhawk]

First I would buy more land, then I would take five acres and predator fence it with both 2x4 wire and seven electric fence wires. with a 15 foot high cover over the whole thing, The gate would be a double affair similar to an air lock where you enter and close the outer gate then open the inner gate. This acreage would be just for the birds, I would have similar space for goats, rabbits, ducks/geese and pigs. The house would be in the center of all these acreages so I could access each one as needed with out a lot of walking.