they look like they make good eatingLast night I went out and got these. English lops.
The little boy.
And the girl.
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Those rabbits are enough to make two family dinners a piece. Are they full grown or just bunnies? Scary, I'd have them locked up really tight especially at night.
Ronott your chicks are gorgeous - they do look to have mink coats - you could sell them as "mink coated" Big bucks !! Why not Silkies don't have "silk" feathers and people buy them anyway.
Here are my breeding coops that are just being finished.
Being in the Philippines, we dont need to worry about cold and snow, but we have our own issues.
Prior to construction of these coops, I had built 2 coops 8x8 and 5 coops 6x6. I needed 6 breeding coops for small numbers of birds - up to 6 birds total.
All my coops have an area under the coop that is closed in as well as a protected run totalling 250% of the coop area.
In designing coops. my goals are:
The main challenge is that we have a onshore wind that blows all winter at about 20 knots bringing salt laden wet air over us - and rusting everything. A GI sheet roof will be rusted out in 2 years.
Secondary challenges are predators. Feral dogs, cats and rats. Dogs are very rare. Cats are the same but have killed several chicks. Rats have become almost insignificant with a major abatement program we initiated.
So this is what we came up with.
A foundation was made of cinder blocks with a total pen size of 4x10. this continues with the same scale of coop to pen size as our other coops. The Cinder blocks act to protect the coconut lumber from the soil as well as prevent dogs tunneling.
On top of that we created the base for the coops.We used true 2x3 lumber and 1/2" plywood for the floor of each 4x4 coop. We place 18" of flat GI sheet along the base to prevent rats from climbing up the coop.
The thatch roof is very light so it uses just a few 2x3s and bamboo strips to supplort it. Green nylon mesh is used in place of hardware cloth.
The walls of the coop are 1/4 marine plywood with a woven bamboo material called amacan over the top for decorative and protective appeal.
Egg boxes span 2 coops with a 1up 1 down in each coop. The human doors are at the rear for ease of cleaning.
Just about finished. The pen doors need to be hung, rice husks for beeding, 3" bamboo roosts and a fish net pen ceiling and we are all done but the clean up.
Being in the Philippines, we dont need to worry about cold and snow, but we have our own issues.
Prior to construction of these coops, I had built 2 coops 8x8 and 5 coops 6x6. I needed 6 breeding coops for small numbers of birds - up to 6 birds total.
All my coops have an area under the coop that is closed in as well as a protected run totalling 250% of the coop area.
In designing coops. my goals are:
- Use as much material from renewable or recycled products as possible.
- Make the coops fit in with the environement as much as possible.
- Provide adequate ventilation and envitonmental protection as possible.
The main challenge is that we have a onshore wind that blows all winter at about 20 knots bringing salt laden wet air over us - and rusting everything. A GI sheet roof will be rusted out in 2 years.
Secondary challenges are predators. Feral dogs, cats and rats. Dogs are very rare. Cats are the same but have killed several chicks. Rats have become almost insignificant with a major abatement program we initiated.
So this is what we came up with.
A foundation was made of cinder blocks with a total pen size of 4x10. this continues with the same scale of coop to pen size as our other coops. The Cinder blocks act to protect the coconut lumber from the soil as well as prevent dogs tunneling.
On top of that we created the base for the coops.We used true 2x3 lumber and 1/2" plywood for the floor of each 4x4 coop. We place 18" of flat GI sheet along the base to prevent rats from climbing up the coop.
The thatch roof is very light so it uses just a few 2x3s and bamboo strips to supplort it. Green nylon mesh is used in place of hardware cloth.
The walls of the coop are 1/4 marine plywood with a woven bamboo material called amacan over the top for decorative and protective appeal.
Egg boxes span 2 coops with a 1up 1 down in each coop. The human doors are at the rear for ease of cleaning.
Just about finished. The pen doors need to be hung, rice husks for beeding, 3" bamboo roosts and a fish net pen ceiling and we are all done but the clean up.
Nice pens Oz. I love the look of the woven material
They turned out awesome Oz -- they should work out well for your world traveling, aristocratic, blue-blood fowl that are now charged with upgrading the entire Philippines island chain of chickendom.
Love those pens Oz! Nice job!
such pressure
Wow, Oz... those pens are amazing. Anyone would be proud to have those, even for a people house.
Although I'm not sure what I'd do with the nest boxes if I lived there. I would need more shoes to fill them.
Although I'm not sure what I'd do with the nest boxes if I lived there. I would need more shoes to fill them.
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