Sumatra Thread!

[Coop Scoop Boogie]

You have done a nice job raph. How many birds are planning on putting
into the new coop?

 

[championsumatra]

Nice chicken house!

 

[raph]

It depends, it will be for a broody or a ill chicken, or a spare cockerel. And now that I've made one I could make another one easily and fast enough. How anyone else been building?

It's a shame I saw a add on donedeal for some rather nice looking Carlisle oeg, but they're about 5/6 hours away

 

[championsumatra]

Yes I am going to build three breeding round pens for my sumatras. It will also work great as conditioning pens too.

 

[Coop Scoop Boogie]

It depends, it will be for a broody or a ill chicken, or a spare cockerel. And now that I've made one I could make another one easily and fast enough. How anyone else been building?

It's a shame I saw a add on donedeal for some rather nice looking Carlisle oeg, but they're about 5/6 hours away

I do think we will add some more coops with runs
this year. I'm planning on getting some nice blue
sumatras soon and want to set up some more breeding
pens. I set up my pens on a larger scale so the birds
have plenty of room as I usually do larger groupings.
Hope you have lots of luck with your birds this year.

and I am planning on a trip of 12 hours to get birds so
just a bit longer/farther than what you may do for the OEGs.

 

[raph]

Make sure you post pictures through out the making of your structure.

Do you guys remember my coop at first. here it is in stages,form the first two panels to the final product

 

[ramirezframing]

You did a very good job Raph.

I still have some to redo, as the wire and post are starting to go, but they lasted a long time so I can't complain about it.

 

[raph]

thanks, its good fun building coops. i want to try make some pheasant pens, my grandpas pheasant pens are 6ft tall at the front and i think about 5.6ft at the back.and they're 8ft long by 4ft wide, so they're a good sizable space for breeding birds, but i dont know how much they would cost to make.

 

[drakeschicks]

Yeah, I take alot more pictures since I got a digital camera. My only problem is now I don't get them developed. lol

I don't anymore either, just load them into the computer!

 

[ST3PH3N]

thanks, its good fun building coops. i want to try make some pheasant pens, my grandpas pheasant pens are 6ft tall at the front and i think about 5.6ft at the back.and they're 8ft long by 4ft wide, so they're a good sizable space for breeding birds, but i dont know how much they would cost to make.

My smallest flight is 8ft high, 20ft long by 5ft wide making 100sq ft of floor space and it is too small for keeping pheasants in. I'll be expanding the pen 10ft wider so it'll be 300sq ft for a trio of pheasants. If the ceiling is too low the birds hit it if they fly up alarmed and injure themselves, sometimes even breaking their own neck so I would suggest a minimum hight of 8 feet, then you can keep doves as well if you decide to later.

-Stephen