round roost?? like a pine tree with limbs cut back

[donsgirl67]

What about pvc for roost?

 

[Sam3 Abq]

Great info and logic for a "natural tree limb" roost. This has been a question i'm researching on BYC lately and your post convinces me to go au-natural. Thanks !

 

[Bear Foot Farm]

What about pvc for roost?

It's too slick and really not strong enough unless you used very short pieces

 

[alibraun]

sepadippy1 pls go look in thread DIY show us your inventions, few there with cable or line ideas over runs, I have to pick which I can work into my surroundings

 

[BantamLover21]

It's too slick and really not strong enough unless you used very short pieces

x2

 

[Wrooster]

Round roosts are the most natural
When a perching bird's legs bend, the tendons on the back of the leg cause the toes to curl, so they can grip while being totally relaxed

Bear Foot Farm is saying what I had always believed was true and backing it up with references. I've been hearing so many mentions of flat 2x4's lately I was looking to see how much support that idea has.

Gail Damerow is a respected author of barnyard reference books. She says "An ideal chicken perch is 2 inches in diameter for large breeds, 1 inch for bantams." She mentions using dowels or old ladders. Nothing about 2x4's.

There were chickens before there was lumber. I'll stick with round.

 

[Sam3 Abq]

Bear Foot Farm is saying what I had always believed was true and backing it up with references. I've been hearing so many mentions of flat 2x4's lately I was looking to see how much support that idea has.

Gail Damerow is a respected author of barnyard reference books. She says "An ideal chicken perch is 2 inches in diameter for large breeds, 1 inch for bantams." She mentions using dowels. Nothing about 2x4's.

There were chickens before there was lumber. I'll stick with round.

i agree Wrooster - my 1st flock in spring 2014 will have 2" dia. natural branches for roosts.

 

[Folly's place]

I use small diameter tree branches or saplings, 3" to 4" in diameter, bark on. Some of my birds roost 8' up on the rafters of the coop, which are 4" round fence posts. NO PVC!!! Dowells are too slick, IMO. Mary

 

[alibraun]

update!! I am working 11 hr. days n have only 1 day off now n trying to get new tree roost started I hope on wed. will have to take walk in woods for it all, hubby n I work opposites so joint effort day wed. I hope I found more scrap steel to use as posts to make a grid over my run also.