Plan – Draft chicken coop (poultry house)?
I plan to have a chicken coop (poultry-house) for chickens, guinea fowl and To build turkeys. I think 20 to 30 birds. They are a great place to wander, there is a huge piece of pasture … So I need a stable, where they can sleep, lay their eggs and shelter for rain. In my area it is quite hot, is never less than 15C. Max temp 35C. Thanks
I run one free-range poultry farm in the United States, and raise bantam chickens, standard chickens, guineas, pigeons and turkeys. I do that via mobile pins on the Pasture. From your question I'm guessing that you are more interested in the mechanical part of it, but there are some diseases and behavioral problems that need also considered. I will briefly on the most important one. Behavioral: mixing different species of birds can be a problem. Will coexist turkeys, guineas and chickens while chickens and feathers out, but I have had occasion where the guineas against the chickens, turkeys or directed against the chickens, and had killed several. Once a bunch of birds out on another bird, it is ready to intervene if you. Mix turkey and other poultry can cause blackheads occurrence of diseases. You can download it free, but it is deadly turkeys and is something that does not occur when you are not mixing chickens and turkeys do. they seem to be the most vulnerable to them if they chicks, but it can occur at any age. I've noticed the following guidelines to be good in building co-operatives: I am in the United States – all measurements in inches and feet. Chicken Doors 12×12 ", with a boarding ramp, loading ramp at the cleats 6" next to a 45 degree inclination. The ramp flange 6 " wide and 1 / 2 or more thick. Chicken / Guinea beds are 2×2 "boards, which I take to round the corners with a router. Easier for the bird, less chance Bumblefoot (Injuries to feet,) to swelling or ultimately, death. Distance of sleeping 9 "vertical, 7" horizontal. Old heads are excellent Beds. Secure the ladder against the back wall or ceiling with a hinge and a rope to hold them, makes cleaning under the beds much easier. Alternatively, you can use in the steel mesh Beds (1 / 2 "or so, most of the feces) through the ground below. Stagger Drop allow sleeping, so that birds do not cover up sleeping stool birds below. I have mixed cooperatives in Turkey on a bedroom wall and resting places chicken on another to set and for the first few weeks in the cooperation in the night and ordered the birds in order to separate them. After a while they did it themselves. Roosts for turkeys too much stable – large breasted reach weights of more than 50 kg, and they have real problems sleeping when they approach market weight. A 2 "x4" board supports all few meters is a good place to sleep for 1 animal and 18 "of board length. allow 10 turkeys weighing 400lbs (200kg), so you can design your bedroom with your maximum strain in Turkey spirit. All beds should be removed without tools for you to clean, sterilize or to have them spray with insecticides or between herds. Predator Questions: In the Coop, rodents will hunt for smaller birds, so for the first 3 -4 months of your life, birds you want to try to run it from your area or where chicks. Snakes are especially problematic because they pass through a reasonably sized network of poultry. Marsupials (opossums or raccoons) are a constant threat. Coop your design, it should close you your birds safe, if necessary, and the birds should be protected with a little more than chicken wire. I do not use dogs to climb the fence (2×2 holes, woven wire), which is proof against dogs, coyotes, raccoons, and so on. To prevent rats and snakes You have to go to 1 / 2 inch or less mesh. Consider the likely predators in the construction of your coop. I have lost all the chickens in a collaboration, to a weasel, who came through wire mesh. Out Of The Coop: Hawks are a constant problem for me, I keep live near thousands of acres of nature have, and thus a Constant hawk problem. I String monofilament fishing line 10 'high above the tops of runs, usually 20 to 30lb test, and this frightens the hawks. The alternative is to the chickens kept in open-bottom pens that are safe from all enemies, and move them with a tractor. I build my pens range from square steel tube, and weigh about 250lbs, 5'x8'x8. I build the pins 5 'high for easy maintenance. I do my own welding; these springs produce cost me $ 220 (USD) to and my mortality has decreased significantly, while the birds favor of the new pasture every day. It allows me to not visit some of the parasites over pasture than one check per year, and in areas where I am in the garden, like, so that the birds there for one or two weeks is a weed-free area of arable land with fresh Fertilizer into the soil. Rain protection: I live in a rainy, cold area. Temperatures rarely dip below 0 ° C, and rarely go over 29c on. We average 16cm One months rain in autumn winter and spring. No monsoon, but not dry. I've tried plastic corrugated sheets for roofing, corrugated iron roof sheeting. Corrugated Plastic Sheets are my current choice, especially at the lower price vs. metal plates, and impact resistance. I collect rain water from the roof into the barrel, that the chicken is water needs. I use 30 gallons used a plastic barrel originally to olive ship. The roof is a multiple sheets of corrugated PVC plastic, 12 'long x 2 wide'. My Pins are 8 'wide, giving me a single 12 Use "sheet with a 6" overhang on the top and a 6 "overhang on the ground, with a plastic gutter and down pipe to the water barrel, which feeds into the automatic waterer. This means that the chickens their water barrels filled every time it rains and the work has reduced significantly. I have problems when it freezes, and sometimes a heated water bowl for dogs manufactured purpose. I use a pitch roof, single-angle at one end higher than the others, because this store, produce easy and all the water from the roof is on one side of gutter and downspout costs. Planning a roof: If the pen roof You plan to ensure that you are having a sort of framing, so that the water drip off the canvas bundle and not set to promote it. No flat roof designs, if you have a Plan to choose, in other words. You can do with the flat roofs of corrugated iron roof, but it is sometimes can be quite useful, the water flow directly, so you want, your roof pitch. Chickens do not care about the rain: Rain is not really a problem that the birds care much about, but. Given the choice between running around on the grass in the rain and under the cover, she chooses to get wet. What matters is that the resting area dry and relatively free of drafts. A wet, inactive on a bird with a breeze in the castle, it will eat more and under more stress than in a closed area. For this reason, I extend the roof covering 3 'by the tip of the pen to offer at the end break. In your area I believe you do not have to provide some cover for rain, but also for SO bamboo is hardy, chickens, how to eat it, and it is tolerated in a chicken coop very well, provided that the stalks are large enough, THT can not eat the chickens, the entire bush. A few groups of bamboo will provide both cover from predators, wind protection and shade. Nesting hens would rather put a darker, more remote area in which to. 12x12x12 box (two 1×12 cards be fitted with 12 "spaces between them are each nest) is sufficient. For 30 hens you have 8-10 nests. You should be 12-18" above the bottom of Cooperation, and everyone should have a nest 2 "lips, which have nailed it, to prevent the eggs from falling out. Hens will sometimes push the eggs of other hens they do not like the common nest (they are all in a nest basket from time to time) and a lip reduces the number of eggs lost due to this behavior. Wood chips or hay completed in the nest, and you can "seed" encourage the nest with golf balls chickens there to begin with. Discourage the birds sleep in nests, by them and laid them on beds – ie clean eggs for you. Usually moves to 3-4 consecutive nights is all you need for a new flocks the idea that they do not sleep in the nests. Bucket as a nest: 5-gallon plastic bucket with a hole carved in the lid, and make a bolt of lightning through the ground into the wall of the coop good nests, too. the hole in the lid should be the upper half of the lid, providing the egg-retaining lip above. Turkeys prefer plastic garbage cans 30 gallons half filled with hay. Sizing of cooperation: If I were designing a stall for 30 turkeys, and they had no access from outside, I would be a design that approximately 300 square meters, with 20 gallons or more of water capacity, and a feed capacity of 30kg or more. I would also be 15 'of the beds and the Beds were probably 3 rows, with a ladder from the ground, the beds for the broad breasted turkeys. For Heritage Turkey Breeds no ladder Erf is. Their height at least working with turkeys 3'6 ". I suggest, a mimum height of 5 'for your co-operation for easy maintenance.
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