small pigeon loft
small pigeon loft
Hi,
i'm about to start some training with my 7 month old Griffon (Monty).
I'm looking for advise about building a small pigeon loft. I can only keep about 10 at a time. if anyone has some plans they would be willing to share that would be great.
All of the lofts I've been seeing through google and youtube searches are all way too large.
any help would be greatly appreciated!
Thanks in advance
Shannon & Monty
i'm about to start some training with my 7 month old Griffon (Monty).
I'm looking for advise about building a small pigeon loft. I can only keep about 10 at a time. if anyone has some plans they would be willing to share that would be great.
All of the lofts I've been seeing through google and youtube searches are all way too large.
any help would be greatly appreciated!
Thanks in advance
Shannon & Monty
Re: small pigeon loft
Really pretty simple. You could raise them in the delivery box your refrigerator came in. 4 4'x8' side's, a roof, re-entry door up high, landing pad in front of the door, main door to go in through and five or six nest box's. Again, you could use an mty tissue box, they just don't care. I have a pretty goo number of nest box's and about half don't get used. They build nest's on the floor, under things and behind thing's.
I'd have a couple windows somewhere for light. Mine are old windows I've scrounged out of old trailer house's and RV's. I'd also put a bunch of small roost's they can stand on if their not on the nest's.
I'd have a couple windows somewhere for light. Mine are old windows I've scrounged out of old trailer house's and RV's. I'd also put a bunch of small roost's they can stand on if their not on the nest's.
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Re: small pigeon loft
You can easily build something using 5 6X6 dog kennel panels. Cover part of the top and a couple sides with a tarp and add a few 2X2 for perches and you've got a coop. Its easily moved in your yard and not a permanent structure.
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Just as Don said. I have 2 4x8 sections. Literally just 4x8s with a roof. I plan on racing this year though so I may build something a little nicer. I'd also like 3 sections - cocks, hens and young birds. For perches you can just cut 2x4s about 4-5" long and anchor them to the wall. You want more perches than birds so they're happy and not fighting.
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Re: small pigeon loft
Having ten of the same sex will keep the number at 10 . Otherwise the larger ones you have seen on you tube may be betterRESMER77 wrote: I can only keep about 10 at a time. if anyone has some plans they would be willing to share that would be great.
All of the lofts I've been seeing through google and youtube searches are all way too large.
any help would be greatly appreciated!
Thanks in advance
Shannon & Monty
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Re: small pigeon loft
Ideally, have a covered perch (they will poop on each other) for each bird, 3 or four shelves for nesting, and plenty of ventilation for warm weather. Raise it a foot or two off the ground to keep it dry and the critters out. Small coops are tricky because windows and in/out traps take up space for perches and nesting shelves. You want the aviary or a large window to face E, or SE, so the birds can see the sun come up (said the racer I got my initial birds from).
Mine is 4' x 7' x 5' high in the front, it is a little tight for the 28 birds that are in there now. Once you put birds in, you'll never do any interior alterations I'll be adding an "out" trap next week, as a hawk entered the propped open "in" trap (killed 1) last week
Mine is 4' x 7' x 5' high in the front, it is a little tight for the 28 birds that are in there now. Once you put birds in, you'll never do any interior alterations I'll be adding an "out" trap next week, as a hawk entered the propped open "in" trap (killed 1) last week
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Nice loft. I put predator door's on my loft. Drop the bobs, and close the door and nothing come's or goes. Made my bob's with threaded rod, nuts and heavy wire.nuts screwed on the rod and wire attached to nuts with liquid steel.
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Re: small pigeon loft
What are predator doors? My birds pretty much come and go as they please all day- the more they poop outside the less I have to shovel outDonF wrote:Nice loft. I put predator door's on my loft. Drop the bobs, and close the door and nothing come's or goes. Made my bob's with threaded rod, nuts and heavy wire.nuts screwed on the rod and wire attached to nuts with liquid steel.
Re: small pigeon loft
Make a door that cover's the entrance is all. Mine hand down from hinges at the top. Could just as esay put the landing on hinges and have it fold up.
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Re: small pigeon loft
Having ten of the same sex will keep the number at 10 . Otherwise the larger ones you have seen on you tube may be better
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Re: small pigeon loft
hinged with a latch like this.DonF wrote:Make a door that cover's the entrance is all. Mine hand down from hinges at the top. Could just as esay put the landing on hinges and have it fold up.
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Re: small pigeon loft
That's it! Notice the sliding bolt at the top end of the landing plate? Little slot above it slide's into like that, that's the way they come!
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Re: small pigeon loft
Newbie here. What are the wire appendages to the main building? Thanks!
Re: small pigeon loft
They are bobs -- The bobs swing only in and let the pigeons on the landing board enter the building -- the bobs do not swing to the outside, thus preventing the pigeons from escaping the building.
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