Pigeon Talk

[Serin]

Atleast with cots, it doesn't matter if you clip wings. They can jump high! How tall is your enclosure roof?

12 inches but I'm going to move them to a bigger bin cage today thats about 18 inches tall. I have to cut out some of the top and sides and add wire for ventilation but they'll have a lot more running room.

 

[Serin]

It is done! 30 gallon tub with the top and side windows cut out and replaced with extra bird cage panels. I made a front door with ziptied hinges and a metal spring lock. Lots of room to run now for under $15.

 

[Serin]

I stopped at a farmstand earlier too and they had some gorgeous sebrights and a golden pheasant in the adjacent petting zoo. Silver sebrights are my fave chickens and the kind I'd keep if I had the room.

 

[cavemanrich]

My Silver Sebright in this gallery pix lived 13 years. My longest living chicken.

Different varieties all living in harmony. As of October 2014 none in this group are with me anymore. No I did not eat them. The silver seabrite ( black and white) lived 13 years. The golden seabrite lived 9 years.

• cavemanrich
• Apr 6, 2014

 

[mixedUPturk]

It is done! 30 gallon tub with the top and side windows cut out and replaced with extra bird cage panels. I made a front door with ziptied hinges and a metal spring lock. Lots of room to run now for under $15.

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Thats Excellent! Would be awesome if you did a write up on it as an article so that others could make it too! Im sure i wanna try it out!

 

[Serin]

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Thats Excellent! Would be awesome if you did a write up on it as an article so that others could make it too! Im sure i wanna try it out!

I could do that. Only thing is that I was able to use finch cage panels because I had extras as I've cut apart and connected smaller cages to give my other birds larger enclosures. Though the idea could be done with hardware cloth.

I made two more modifications this morning... External feeder doors because I learned quails will dust bathe all of the food out of an open bowl, and an external water bottle. They figured how to drink from it after about an hour. The external doors would be impossible to make I think without having them already on another cage panel.

 

[Pyxis]

The tumbler egg is still coming along Should hatch about Sunday, I think.

 

[WVduckchick]

Love all the new birds! I had coturnix quail for a brief time. I also had a flock of Golden sebrights. Beautiful birds, but mine were the most obnoxious flock I ever had, so I rehomed them. The males were mean and the females were super flighty.

@backyard pigeons you asked how many pigeons I have now - I’m still at 16. I’ve seen a bit of recent mating activity, and molting appears to be lessening, so it wouldn’t surprise me to see some eggs soon. Bonnie and Clyde sat thru November or December last year.

 

[WVduckchick]

The tumbler egg is still coming along Should hatch about Sunday, I think.

Yay! Can’t wait to see it.
How are the frillbacks doing?

 

[WVduckchick]

This is pretty funny. My pigeons are next to my cream legbars. Check out the size difference! The CL cockerel is still young too. And that’s a d’Uccle cockerel in the background.