stag pen plans

[Sir Sacabambaspis]

My delightful little helper and I are taking a well deserved break

 

[Sir Sacabambaspis]

So after lots of thinking and looking at my scrap material... I managed to make this really awesome "mini hoop coop"! Currently I have one of my younger unfriendly roosters in there until I've found him a forever home, but do I plan on making a few more for my breeding roosters I'm not using!

This is the water situation, I think it's pretty efficient but I will obviously need to refill it once or twice a day

The roost bar is a biiiiiiiiit high but he can still get to it fine

 

[Sir Sacabambaspis]

I also made this massive one for singular pairs!!!

 

[Sir Sacabambaspis]

Okie dokie, I'm tryna revive my old thread with an update. So as always I have extra roosters who need homes of their own and places to grow up safely. Looking back my first plan was down right unethical and roosters deserve more room. I had a few cheap metal runs that had become nothing more than scrap in the background and today I thought I'd finally give it a bit of a glow up! So I made 2 roughly 1m by 1m stag pens. They're meant to be short term grow out, quarantine, or holding pens for young roosters or roosters unneeded for current projects. Currently I have my young phoenix rooster and one of my youngest cockerels I'm allowing time on his own over the next month of two so that he can develop his young adult feathers. I know they're not the biggest but the roosters have are a medium sized bantams and I plan on putting them with their own hens once they're fully matured. I'm giving my phoenix rooster two weeks in his new pen to mature and finish his molt as well. I have plastic cups with smooth edges for daily amounts of food to prevent rodents from thinking there's food around. And I have waterers for them without taking up too much room. If y'all have any recommendations on edits I can do to it I'd be happy to hear your suggestions!

I'm quite happy with the designs and the roosters seem to be fine with this amount of room. These photos were taken during the process of finishing them as I finished well after the sun had set.