Who has a bachelor pad?

[Jtaranc]

We are building 2 bachelor pads for our Roos in our breeding program and I was wondering if anyone had pics of there’s?

 

[Debbie292d]

We bought this shed on Marketplace, and the pen I forget, but reinforced it with 1/2" HWC. We put the shingles on it and painted it, and made a chicken door. It's a growout pen/bachelor pad.

If you could find even a large doghouse on Marketplace, just add a pen to it.






Or put it in a pen. This is our parrot aviary which now has a dog box in it for chickens.

 

[Jtaranc]

We bought this shed on Marketplace, and the pen I forget, but reinforced it with 1/2" HWC. We put the shingles on it and painted it, and made a chicken door. It's a growout pen/bachelor pad.

If you could find even a large doghouse on Marketplace, just add a pen to it.



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Or put it in a pen. This is our parrot aviary which now has a dog box in it for chickens.
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They don’t fly out?

 

[red horse ranch]

This is my 'Rooster's Coop'. It's also a grow out coop for chicks, and numerous other uses over the years. Quarantine for new birds etc. It is 5 x7 with insulation and electric. It is inside a covered 16x 20 pen.

 

[FunClucks]

I keep my dual purpose meat bird roosters (one New Hampshire and one White Ranger) in a hoop coop covered by a tarp. No actual coop, since not needed where I live. 10ft by 15 ft. Large enough for 10 birds comfortably. No ranging due to predators, covered with 1/2" hardware cloth with 3 ft apron. Framed out a door on each end, and a center support. There is an isolation cage in the center, with a perch and poop board sitting on top of it.

I have two meat bird roosters that were over-mating my hens. Didn't want to eat them because they're my breeding stock, but had to keep them separated to let the hens heal up. So I put them in that coop with my two problem white leghorns - they were bullying everyone and weren't pleasant, but I loved my eggs from them, so didn't want to rehome. I figured, the meat bird roos were so fat and slow, and the leghorn hens so fast, they'd only be caught and mated if they wanted to be. And I was right. One of them allows herself to be mated, and the other doesn't. The roosters cohabitate fine going on two years now. And my meat bird hens were able to heal up and were much happier not having the roosters pester them.

I've raised 15 roos in a 10x20 bachelor pen - tarp over top of a chain link dog run, covered everywhere with 1/2" hardware cloth, and 3 ft apron. As long as the females aren't in there with them, it goes fine. Depends on the breed though, and whether it's a long term setup, or you're growing them out until about 14-15 weeks to eat them.

 

[Debbie292d]

They don’t fly out?

No, these are silkies who don't fly. It is 4' and I think 4" tall. If used for adult chickens or bachelor pad, you'd have to put netting across which would be easy. We have no hawk issues or it would have that already. We have plywood and plexiglass across it in the winter to help keep snow out of it.