Re: Eglu pros and cons

a_l_p wrote:

What a hell of a lot of pallavar - chickens do not need insulation.
The timber quality is not improved by all of that so will still rot
-- we have had a few!. Hardboard, wallpaper etc make a very poor
surface for keeping birds in. It would also provide a great place
for mites and bugs to accumulate not to mention be very attractive
to mice.
No, I meant using a tin (zinc coated steel I think) garden/utility
shed (sold here in various sizes, easily erected by the home handyman
i.e. two people can be driven to fury over an entire weekend trying
to find where this extra piece should go and what's this leftover
panel for?) and varying quality.

LOL
We don't have tin ones here -- they are all wooden.
[our henhouses take about 1/2 an hour to erect - the larger or more
complicated ones might stretch to an hour for someone who is spacially
challenged]
<grin>

They are very cold, unlike a wooden
building, but the worst thing is the condensation. I doubt if mites
would live better in a lined metal shed than in the crevices in a
wooden one.

Its the warm dark dampness between the lining and the outer that would
create the perfect environment for mites et al.

Oh, I wonder if those prefab sheds are an Antipodean
thing - we don't get regular snow anywhere people actually LIVE (!)
and they tend to have very low-pitched roofs.

Yup - there is little made from tin these days here now. Agricultural /
rural buildings and sheds have Onduline roofs now. Its a bitumen fibre
compressed material formed into the same sorts of corrugated profiles. Very
good for all sorts of situations and very easy to handle. No condensation.
The cheap and nasty timber houses - sheds, coops whatever - have bitumastic
roofing felt which is the quickest way to get mites.


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regards
Jill Bowis

Pure bred utility chickens and ducks
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