Raising Gamebirds > Build It Yourself
Flight Pen for chukars...
AnnabellaGamebirds:
What about installing a raised floor? Would that be better than concrete? The thing I like about the concrete is I can just drive the tractor in and scrape out the poop. Installing a raised floor over concrete would make it harder to cleanup, while the birds would definitely stay cleaner.
I thought with blinders on you could crunch the square foot per bird ratio down quite a bit? I was thinking the birds would be in the insulated brooder rooms until they feather out a bit. Then they would go into the new pen for a few months at the most.
I'm hoping to keep a group of them as breeders for next year. It would be tricky to add a flight pen onto the barn but that is a viable option. 10 square feet seems pretty generous for a grow-out pen for chukars.
transzam:
As a complete beginner, I would like to hatch coutrnix jumbo brown quail and then release to a newly made pen.cage etc.
What is the ratio for these brids in an enclosure per sq ft or sq m ?
gsc:
AnnabellaGamebirds-- There is a difference between what you "can" do and what will work best. You will find references that will give you smaller numbers then what you are being told here. The information you are being given here is to get healthy, flight conditioned birds to the field. The less square feet will result in problems, loss of feathers, etc which will not get the best birds out the door. They will live, but there will be damage. There is "what will work" and then there is "what works best".
Tanszam-- The jumbo browns are very laid back birds. I keep 7 (6 hens and 1 cock) in a 2' x 2' roll out pens and have no pecking. These birds DO NOT FLY if that is what you were wanting. Just big calm birds that can fly sort of from your hand to the ground. If they get loose, they will walk back to you! Just fat, dumb and happy.
Reeves:
--- Quote ---I thought with blinders on you could crunch the square foot per bird ratio down quite a bit?
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The blinders will deform their nostrils. In your first post you say that you'll be selling to a Pheasant hunting farm. As others said, you'll have picking problems. The farm will want birds in good shape. If you take any to them that are beat up/deformed, they'll not likely be calling you for more.
An outside run or less birds will be the way to go.
JohnInDixon:
--- Quote from: gsc on April 01, 2007, 02:37:25 PM --- Just fat, dumb and happy.
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You forgot food processors! They turn food into poo
;-)
John
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