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Livestock => Poultry & Waterfowl => Topic started by: Victorian Farmer on January 05, 2013, 11:44:27 pm

Title: First pen built 2013 120 birds
Post by: Victorian Farmer on January 05, 2013, 11:44:27 pm

day 2 of the build

Title: Re: First pen built 2013 120 birds
Post by: HesterF on January 06, 2013, 12:20:05 am

Wow! That's some house. Did you design that all from scratch? Amazing! And there was I thinking my 20 bird house was big!

H

Title: Re: First pen built 2013 120 birds
Post by: mojocafa on January 06, 2013, 07:17:16 am

Suberb!  Very impressed!
Mojo

Title: Re: First pen built 2013 120 birds
Post by: jaykay on January 06, 2013, 07:22:04 am

You build such good chook-pens and houses  :thumbsup:

Title: Re: First pen built 2013 120 birds
Post by: ZacB on January 06, 2013, 07:34:59 am

That is some new house  :thumbsup:

Title: Re: First pen built 2013 120 birds
Post by: chrismahon on January 06, 2013, 07:53:30 am

Monster of a job Victorian Farmer. Looks impressive. My 4 bird breeding coops take me a month each to build!

Title: Re: First pen built 2013 120 birds
Post by: Ina on January 06, 2013, 08:22:06 am

Luxury accommodation, by the looks of it!

Title: Re: First pen built 2013 120 birds
Post by: Victorian Farmer on January 06, 2013, 10:44:28 am

IV GOT PLANNING TO BUILD A MONSTER PEN this is 4 miles from the road over looking the lock it will be accommodation that's the cover I'm cutting dawn 600 trees to get in the mill 4/2 kit and therma board .IT will be up for Easter GLASS corner and 30 ft off glass door-es that will open the side up .

Title: Re: First pen built 2013 120 birds
Post by: mojocafa on January 06, 2013, 11:57:12 am

Is your monster house for chickens, monsters or yourself?

Title: Re: First pen built 2013 120 birds
Post by: darkbrowneggs on January 06, 2013, 12:06:40 pm

Terrific job - I'm envious.  Well done you  :thumbsup:

Title: Re: First pen built 2013 120 birds
Post by: Big Light on January 06, 2013, 01:59:42 pm

VF, nice house we got the same house 2nd hand - I assume its from a company in wales originally or its a very similar design. We built it on railway sleepers 2 high on each section joint to prevent vermin ( we got the 160 so 4 sections).

Really good houses we had to take ours down when we bought it  ( unfortunately then 100 yards across a ploughed field to the trailer) 3 days to take down and 2 to put up. The only couple of thing to think about are the doors  as it catches roof edge on top of door if caught by wind  - use a fence post to catch it / fix it to rather than damage top of door. Also put a bolt on the inside of the door if you want to catch things up. Perches are a little high and if you have both sides folded down quite difficult for birds to get up as theres not much gap - thinking about lowering some although then you lose the nest box. We have halved our shed in the middle. Wouldn't fancy putting 160 birds in as i think it would be to heavy a number for the space ( i have LF Sussex / Orps/ Welsummers). 160 probably holds 100 comfortably

Also thinking about putting guttering on it and dropping the water in a IBC  as it sheds a lot of water and sides / ends get muddy round it

Title: Re: First pen built 2013 120 birds
Post by: Victorian Farmer on January 06, 2013, 03:08:50 pm

THIS IS THE first  TIME IV COPIED A SHED The ends were built with tung and groove Flore boards thicker and more solid the floore fence boards the roof 1/4 ply with 12 mill steel box profile divided in to 3 8 ft square pens .Iv made a plan for a nother which is 60 ft