Re: Building coop

From: KSL (bulldust_at_dancepulse.com.au)
Date: 12/30/04 

Date: Thu, 30 Dec 2004 21:08:06 +1100

Jill

Thanks for the great response.

The coop is an equilateral triangle in cross section, so the maths is quite
easy.

The roosting bar is about 27 inches long. Assume the birds are evenly
spaced across the bar, their centres would be at 9 inches.

At that point, there is about 15 inches of head room.

So, I think you are right - just too cramped.

My neighbour has the same coop and breed of birds. His birds are
significantly smaller than mine. It's too late at night now for me to ask
him, but I'll check tomorrow if his birds roost or lie in the nests.

Ken

" Jill." <news@REMOVETHISkintaline.co.uk> wrote in message
news:41d3cba2$0$48056$ed2619ec@ptn-nntp-reader02.plus.net...
> Ideally you would make sure the bar is away from the nestboxes - is around
2
> inches in diameter and about 18" - 2ft off the ground. The house you have
> you are not going to be able to achieve that I don't think. From the
> pictures there is not enough room for a separate roosting bar as most
houses
> have. If you raise them up any more then they are going to be very
cramped.