I find it very useful to have a way to temporarily contain birds.
This is a method I use for holding birds I'm getting ready to send to freezer camp, birds I'm weighing and assessing for breeders so I can tag them, and for other reasons.
First thing I use is these round cages made of 1"x2" welded wire. The nice thing about using the wire is you can put water in rabbit bottles for the birds you are holding.
He wire is just wrapped back around on itself.
We then stake down the wire on either side. If we have a particularly rambunctious rooster, we stake it down in four places.
If you have a row of the cages, you can stake two of them with one post.
After that, we pull some 4ft wide snow fencing over top of the cages, putting tension on the snow fencing with the posts holding the cages down.
And then, you add birds. You also can put a tarp over the birds to keep out rain and give them shade if there is sun.
I set up a row of 4 cages today so I can hold 7 birds that I am supposed to sell this afternoon. I used the reflector sticks to hold the snow fence down over the top. Some of the chickens were trying to fly out. I put a tarp over them after this picture was taken.
This is a method I use for holding birds I'm getting ready to send to freezer camp, birds I'm weighing and assessing for breeders so I can tag them, and for other reasons.
First thing I use is these round cages made of 1"x2" welded wire. The nice thing about using the wire is you can put water in rabbit bottles for the birds you are holding.
He wire is just wrapped back around on itself.
We then stake down the wire on either side. If we have a particularly rambunctious rooster, we stake it down in four places.
If you have a row of the cages, you can stake two of them with one post.
After that, we pull some 4ft wide snow fencing over top of the cages, putting tension on the snow fencing with the posts holding the cages down.
And then, you add birds. You also can put a tarp over the birds to keep out rain and give them shade if there is sun.
I set up a row of 4 cages today so I can hold 7 birds that I am supposed to sell this afternoon. I used the reflector sticks to hold the snow fence down over the top. Some of the chickens were trying to fly out. I put a tarp over them after this picture was taken.
