The REMOVABLE Top is on the Run (with pics)

[StevenW.]

You are givin me some ideas...

 

[perchie.girl]

mick&cori :

perchie.girl :

Sigh I dont live there.... yep. It all started after my roommate moved in. She needed a place to live and I was without income.... So after she moved in I got a job offer I couldn't refuse sixty miles away. So I packed up the dog and moved in with my Grandma. It was to be a three month contract. Good Good money so I could save up and be good for another couple of years.. The contract got extended more than once and I wound up down here longer than i lived at my own house. Grandma is now 95 and beginning to feel her age, just a little. So now I want to move home but feel obligated to hang here. There are only four of us in the family. And I dont want eldercare to be on my 21 year old son's resume. Moms no help.... sigh living in her own fantasy world. She peeks out long enough to piss me off ..... LOL. but thats a whole other story. At least I can pack her up and drag her up to the house.... when she needs it.

With regard to the roof. this is something I can do and have been toying with conceptually I just wanted to see how someone else would apply it. Even with my mobility issues I am still rather strong and could do a section at a time breaking it down to smaller sections that are more to my capabilities. And I am with your husband about building it so you don't have to hunch over. And even if you were to make it flat it would tend to want to sag in the middle. By having shorter pieces with a peak you will avoid that "issue". And the structure will take more weight.... as in the added canvas, for mine.

Ahhh... smaller pieces! DUH!!!

It really is nice having the top. I asked y'all about it before we did it, even though I had already made up my mind to do it... just like getting other opinions. I have to say though, letting them out knowing that they are safe - it is such a relief. I get so stressed out about those dang birds.

Shoot, yesterday, I bought dried mealworms for my birds. I texted my DH "the babies will be so happy that their mommy got them treats!" The little dorks just grew on me...​

LOL aint it true.... Even now when I am struggling to build its all worth it because I can see their shiny eyes and rubber necking watching what I do. Even my little Miss Peggy who lost one of her legs in the attack. Shes coming along and keeps to her hospital coop watching me and her brothers and sisters. I have to get her a companion once the flock gets to go out into a run... Im thinking of maybe a Silky or somthing sweet and calm .... BTW I have two now that have names.... Miss Violet and Miss Peggy they are called Miss because they arent married.... LOL. Miss Peggy Is I believe a buff... very light tan with lavender under hues. The others I believe are Roayls... though I have to get pix. I am down to eight. Been up there every day this week just about.

So hinged lids for the roof. Now I can get the top secured and get those damndable kennel panels off the roof. And use them for what I wanted them originally .... Partitions between breed pens. Around the outside of the house will be Aviary panels on two sides and wood walls on two sides. And hinged peaked roofs for Shade and water protection. Two peaked roofs spanning twelve feet by twenty four. Mine will be a shallower peak with a center support because of the way the poultry house is layed out. Then I will repeat those roofs in wire for the runs.... should look ok.​

 

[birdboy508]

looks good.

 

[mick&cori]

perchie.girl :

LOL aint it true.... Even now when I am struggling to build its all worth it because I can see their shiny eyes and rubber necking watching what I do. Even my little Miss Peggy who lost one of her legs in the attack. Shes coming along and keeps to her hospital coop watching me and her brothers and sisters. I have to get her a companion once the flock gets to go out into a run... Im thinking of maybe a Silky or somthing sweet and calm .... BTW I have two now that have names.... Miss Violet and Miss Peggy they are called Miss because they arent married.... LOL. Miss Peggy Is I believe a buff... very light tan with lavender under hues. The others I believe are Roayls... though I have to get pix. I am down to eight. Been up there every day this week just about.

So hinged lids for the roof. Now I can get the top secured and get those damndable kennel panels off the roof. And use them for what I wanted them originally .... Partitions between breed pens. Around the outside of the house will be Aviary panels on two sides and wood walls on two sides. And hinged peaked roofs for Shade and water protection. Two peaked roofs spanning twelve feet by twenty four. Mine will be a shallower peak with a center support because of the way the poultry house is layed out. Then I will repeat those roofs in wire for the runs.... should look ok.

That sounds like a good idea. I saw a really neat picture of a chicken "play land" in a book. It had a set-up like you're describing, but they had the aviary netting over the entire run. They also had little bridges and sand boxes. It was neat. I bet you could EVENTUALLY do something like that.

So, if you have an injured guinea (Miss Peggy), would you not be able to hatch a small batch of keets (hint, hint

) and maybe raise a keet with it? Or do you need to get a mellow chicken? Did you name your other guineas Mrs. whatever-the-males-name-is?

Oh yeah, I also forgot to tell y'all... ONE of my babies (they are just 2 months old) found her voice. Our neighbor came over to see our new run...BUCK-WHEAT BUCK-WHEAT BUCK-WHEAT.... I was cleaning out the chicken coop next to theirs (only wire separating them) and she saw the shovel... BUCK-WHEAT BUCK-WHEAT BUCK-WHEAT.... Of course, I'm running into the shop and house to gather my DH and children just to let them hear her. It's so flippin' cute.

I'm such a proud mommy. One of my 3 month old roosters just learned how to crow, too. He just sounds like a broken bicycle horn. They just crack me up. The rest of the crew is pretty quiet. I know its just a matter of time and they will all be butt-cracking or cha-cha'ing.

 

[mick&cori]

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Cool. Post pics when you get yours done. It looked good so far. I want to see the finished pic...

 

[perchie.girl]

mick&cori :

perchie.girl :

LOL aint it true.... Even now when I am struggling to build its all worth it because I can see their shiny eyes and rubber necking watching what I do. Even my little Miss Peggy who lost one of her legs in the attack. Shes coming along and keeps to her hospital coop watching me and her brothers and sisters. I have to get her a companion once the flock gets to go out into a run... Im thinking of maybe a Silky or somthing sweet and calm .... BTW I have two now that have names.... Miss Violet and Miss Peggy they are called Miss because they arent married.... LOL. Miss Peggy Is I believe a buff... very light tan with lavender under hues. The others I believe are Roayls... though I have to get pix. I am down to eight. Been up there every day this week just about.

So hinged lids for the roof. Now I can get the top secured and get those damndable kennel panels off the roof. And use them for what I wanted them originally .... Partitions between breed pens. Around the outside of the house will be Aviary panels on two sides and wood walls on two sides. And hinged peaked roofs for Shade and water protection. Two peaked roofs spanning twelve feet by twenty four. Mine will be a shallower peak with a center support because of the way the poultry house is layed out. Then I will repeat those roofs in wire for the runs.... should look ok.

That sounds like a good idea. I saw a really neat picture of a chicken "play land" in a book. It had a set-up like you're describing, but they had the aviary netting over the entire run. They also had little bridges and sand boxes. It was neat. I bet you could EVENTUALLY do something like that.

So, if you have an injured guinea (Miss Peggy), would you not be able to hatch a small batch of keets (hint, hint

) and maybe raise a keet with it? Or do you need to get a mellow chicken? Did you name your other guineas Mrs. whatever-the-males-name-is?

Oh yeah, I also forgot to tell y'all... ONE of my babies (they are just 2 months old) found her voice. Our neighbor came over to see our new run...BUCK-WHEAT BUCK-WHEAT BUCK-WHEAT.... I was cleaning out the chicken coop next to theirs (only wire separating them) and she saw the shovel... BUCK-WHEAT BUCK-WHEAT BUCK-WHEAT.... Of course, I'm running into the shop and house to gather my DH and children just to let them hear her. It's so flippin' cute.

I'm such a proud mommy. One of my 3 month old roosters just learned how to crow, too. He just sounds like a broken bicycle horn. They just crack me up. The rest of the crew is pretty quiet. I know its just a matter of time and they will all be butt-cracking or cha-cha'ing.

Oh I doo love Kazoo Crows..... WRT the other guineas in my little flock I know there is a pearl female in there I will have to isolate and band them accordingly once I get things a little more organized in the coop.​

 

[mick&cori]

perchie.girl :

mick&cori :

perchie.girl :

LOL aint it true.... Even now when I am struggling to build its all worth it because I can see their shiny eyes and rubber necking watching what I do. Even my little Miss Peggy who lost one of her legs in the attack. Shes coming along and keeps to her hospital coop watching me and her brothers and sisters. I have to get her a companion once the flock gets to go out into a run... Im thinking of maybe a Silky or somthing sweet and calm .... BTW I have two now that have names.... Miss Violet and Miss Peggy they are called Miss because they arent married.... LOL. Miss Peggy Is I believe a buff... very light tan with lavender under hues. The others I believe are Roayls... though I have to get pix. I am down to eight. Been up there every day this week just about.

So hinged lids for the roof. Now I can get the top secured and get those damndable kennel panels off the roof. And use them for what I wanted them originally .... Partitions between breed pens. Around the outside of the house will be Aviary panels on two sides and wood walls on two sides. And hinged peaked roofs for Shade and water protection. Two peaked roofs spanning twelve feet by twenty four. Mine will be a shallower peak with a center support because of the way the poultry house is layed out. Then I will repeat those roofs in wire for the runs.... should look ok.

That sounds like a good idea. I saw a really neat picture of a chicken "play land" in a book. It had a set-up like you're describing, but they had the aviary netting over the entire run. They also had little bridges and sand boxes. It was neat. I bet you could EVENTUALLY do something like that.

So, if you have an injured guinea (Miss Peggy), would you not be able to hatch a small batch of keets (hint, hint

) and maybe raise a keet with it? Or do you need to get a mellow chicken? Did you name your other guineas Mrs. whatever-the-males-name-is?

Oh yeah, I also forgot to tell y'all... ONE of my babies (they are just 2 months old) found her voice. Our neighbor came over to see our new run...BUCK-WHEAT BUCK-WHEAT BUCK-WHEAT.... I was cleaning out the chicken coop next to theirs (only wire separating them) and she saw the shovel... BUCK-WHEAT BUCK-WHEAT BUCK-WHEAT.... Of course, I'm running into the shop and house to gather my DH and children just to let them hear her. It's so flippin' cute.

I'm such a proud mommy. One of my 3 month old roosters just learned how to crow, too. He just sounds like a broken bicycle horn. They just crack me up. The rest of the crew is pretty quiet. I know its just a matter of time and they will all be butt-cracking or cha-cha'ing.

Oh I doo love Kazoo Crows..... WRT the other guineas in my little flock I know there is a pearl female in there I will have to isolate and band them accordingly once I get things a little more organized in the coop.​

I haven't banded any of mine. Or course there are only 5 of them and they all are different colors. There are two of them that are similar, but have small differences.

I've read so much about lighter colors being more prone to predators. What about pied? My cinnamon pied is darker on top.

I can picture your layout, Deb. How many more kennels are you going to get?​

 

[StevenW.]

mick&cori :

Quote:
Cool. Post pics when you get yours done. It looked good so far. I want to see the finished pic...

Will do! I'm needing to get ideas for the run.. I'm not sure if I should have it like a triangle top (Like your's) or ??​

 

[krcote]

Forgive me for asking because I may have missed it somewhere, but why removable tops?

 

[PeepsCA]

Guineas always appreciate extra height and lots of high perches

(Just make sure they have soft bedding material to land in so they don't break legs or hips jumping down

)