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[Ghosty]

My flypen need to be 10' tall, with fronts so a game rooster can be free-range outside with conflicts. We used to use flypens for single mating the highest end brood fowl.

Do you have any of these built yet Centra, pics? I'm going to need something similar this year.

 

[centrarchid]

Do you have any of these built yet Centra, pics? I'm going to need something similar this year.

No. Will require a budget will not have for a couple years at least. It will have a fair portion with a concrete floor. and cinder blocks for about 1/2 walls. Will be an outright building.

 

[Ghosty]

No. Will require a budget will not have for a couple years at least. It will have a fair portion with a concrete floor. and cinder blocks for about 1/2 walls. Will be an outright building.

You say half walls. Are you planning on 5 foot fronts to keep the free ranger from interacting with the penned birds? I can't find much on this.

I have this area I could convert to pens. I'm just wondering how tall I should make the solid portion.

 

[centrarchid]

You say half walls. Are you planning on 5 foot fronts to keep the free ranger from interacting with the penned birds? I can't find much on this.

I have this area I could convert to pens. I'm just wondering how tall I should make the solid portion.
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I want bottom of door 18" above ground level and doors to have half closed panel for lower half. Minimum 24". Step over is an issue. The problem then is reduced ventilation. The design I want has pen at least 10 from front to back so I can do some weird stuff.

 

[Ghosty]

I want bottom of door 18" above ground level and doors to have half closed panel for lower half. Minimum 24". Step over is an issue. The problem then is reduced ventilation. The design I want has pen at least 10 from front to back so I can do some weird stuff.

The space I pictured is 16 ft long, 8 ft deep, and 9.5 ft tall inside, sloping to 7.5 ft. I could make 4x8 pens. To make them any deeper I would need to extend the walls. Ventilation when they are spending time on the ground was my other concern as well. So you are saying a minimum of about 4 feet solid door/wall from the ground? They would also need a blocking wall at roost height. What weird stuff are you doing? I take it you are referring to ventilation or fly pen activities?

 

[centrarchid]

The space I pictured is 16 ft long, 8 ft deep, and 9.5 ft tall inside, sloping to 7.5 ft. I could make 4x8 pens. To make them any deeper I would need to extend the walls. Ventilation when they are spending time on the ground was my other concern as well. So you are saying a minimum of about 4 feet solid door/wall from the ground? They would also need a blocking wall at roost height. What weird stuff are you doing? I take it you are referring to ventilation or fly pen activities?

A visual block extending at least 24" up from bottom all the way around. Roost I want will be offset so no fighting from those through wire.



Weird Stuff: I want to be able to have food item / treats introduced at various locations in the pens. They need a small reward for flying up. They will be called out one at a time when free-range bird penned so we can have fun outside too.

 

[Lauravonsmurf]

Update... the incubator finally arrived and it was dodgy... we moved the longtail egg into it and set some black Swedish the same day... it was impossible to monitor humidity, Half of Black Swedish started to develop but died part way... the Longtail developed right up to lock down which this incubator requires the eggs sprayed during the whole lock down, but each time you open it you release humidity and heat.... chick died in egg... so reorder another Longtail... and incubator #1 needs serious modification, so that will be a project... until it is modified we are not using it again. Because we hated #1 right away and we needed a larger machine we were able to order 2 more incubators of two other designs for previously ordered eggs... they arrived on schedule before the eggs and these machines allow for humidity to be monitored and the chicks are hatching in them... so fingers crossed we get at least 50% hatch with mail order eggs and all the musical eggs and moving eggs from one to another machine because the two machines are handling three different date started clutches of eggs... however we do have our first live chick and it is Asil/Thi pictured from the oriental game clutch which is a mix Thai, Asil, Shamo, Brazilian, and more. Several more have hatched of the Orientals, one of those is not doing well though. Clutch #2 all Copper Marans have started hatching... the last breed is Ayam Cemani... no action yet on those. We reordered another longtail egg. In addition way back we had ordered live chicks they arrived finally from the hatchery. The hatchery sent extra chicks, sadly one Pheonix died. The feedstore chicks we bought are already outside... however the adult hen killed three of them... I do know those older chicks were the most aggressive of the group... we have changed coop arrangements and no more dead dumb young chicks... pretty sure they tried to pick a fight with Leah. Leah has her own coop right now... with only supervised interactions with the young birds in a huge aviary area we set up. We will be building more coops of some sort too. Jazzed about the mix oriental games... trying to talk hubby into other games... he likes super feathered breeds, which is cool as those are fun too... finally have a few Sultans as a result... but finally he oked gamefowl and I got Orientals.

 

[Lauravonsmurf]

Pretty sure the mystery chicks I found at TSC today are OEG. I was looking for meat birds and a few hybrid layers... no joy... also no chick feed I wanted, TSC is wiped out on lots of things... but there were a few mystery Bantam chicks left so I picked them up. The Ayams are hatching now I hope their HR is high.

 

[centrarchid]

Nothing much to show, but moving last of pens into shadows of trees behind house. No free-free range birds at house, and just a few around barn. We are getting adult birds hunkered down for the hot. Young ones will not miss a beat in the heat because we have so many shade patches this year.

Got a little fox problem working near house, but I am not mean enough to go for kill. It comes in for about same amount of time whether dogs out or not. Dogs are running it off each time it comes in, but it can slip in to do a little poking around before dogs know it is here.

 

[JShubin]