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perchie.girl :
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Don't say that! I still have to build their outside pen!
my suggestion to you.... is dont wait.
My thirty from Peeps were bouncing off the walls and I had to get a larger brooder built asap.
My emergency build cost about twenty five bucks and the cage was 40 x 40 x 48 long. It takes one 25 foot roll of 40 inch wide plastic cage wire the green stuff with square holes. (nine bucks at home depot) Eight pvc corners eight pieces of pvc cut to 40 inches long and four pieces cut to 48 inches long. (3/4 inch schedual 40 pipe) No glue but a boat load of Tiewraps, or wire ties. you fasten on the wire by cutting it into two pieces equal length. Now one piece covers the pipe along a 48 to 40 to 48 inch in the shape of a C. The other piece covers the same amount in the same shape to make a cage completely covered. I made a door by simply cutting a slit in the plastic wire and creating a flap cover that can be anchored by using a hot dog skewer. it took them two weeks to grow out of that....
The beauty of building like this is you can use the PVC for other stuff later By the time the keets have grown out of it the plastic wire is pretty much trashed anyway. I am going to use them to make hangers for perches for both sides of the coop. Figured that one today on the way home from the house.
Quote:
Don't say that! I still have to build their outside pen!
my suggestion to you.... is dont wait.
My emergency build cost about twenty five bucks and the cage was 40 x 40 x 48 long. It takes one 25 foot roll of 40 inch wide plastic cage wire the green stuff with square holes. (nine bucks at home depot) Eight pvc corners eight pieces of pvc cut to 40 inches long and four pieces cut to 48 inches long. (3/4 inch schedual 40 pipe) No glue but a boat load of Tiewraps, or wire ties. you fasten on the wire by cutting it into two pieces equal length. Now one piece covers the pipe along a 48 to 40 to 48 inch in the shape of a C. The other piece covers the same amount in the same shape to make a cage completely covered. I made a door by simply cutting a slit in the plastic wire and creating a flap cover that can be anchored by using a hot dog skewer. it took them two weeks to grow out of that....
The beauty of building like this is you can use the PVC for other stuff later By the time the keets have grown out of it the plastic wire is pretty much trashed anyway. I am going to use them to make hangers for perches for both sides of the coop. Figured that one today on the way home from the house.
Since we have some what Mild weather here, I would like to just build a shelter for them (I need to be able to clean it out easily.) I'm starting to wonder if they would even use it?
Oh the possibilities...
http://www.guineafowl.com/fritsfarm/guineas/housing/ I just found this link today and I'm looking at all of them to see if I could build one for my needs.
