my new roundabout hen boxes

forgot to add there are 24 in total and i still have the buttons to clean ,but they are nearly done

nice job ray but there dont look like 200 boxs there

i have another 18 as well from last season ,thats just roundabout hens

all looking very nice and clean ray, done a good job...........

its a shame to get them dirty.
ray.

it is gary, thats why i never paint mine.....

that's right david.
but thy do look nice.
I would thing if you was to paint your boxes with gloss paint.
all you would have to do is give them a wipe down now and again.
when we had the canaries all our cages were painted with gloss paint.
and it was a treat to keep them clean.
and once you pained them it lasted for years.
john. ps it took a while to do as we had 60 cages to paint.

Nice one mate

i used these boxes,well most of them for widowhood hens but we did,nt paint them,they got all damp off the water pots and it started to spoil ,them with them being made from chipboard we had to paint them.i know its a shame to put the birds in but at the end of the day thats what they are there for

are the fed and watered in them ray or do ya let um out

the roundabout hens are let out and fed via trough.the widowhood hens where locked up all the time,but we are trying to race all our hens next season

ah right i hate to see hens waisted

think its all in the head about cocks are better if ya dont try um ya wont know

if there any good or any use for breeding

our hens always do well for us,they pull us out of the sh**e ,especially in harder races or hold overs,it was the hens which all scored this year barr one or two cocks.so we will always race hens

top job ray nice neat and tidy atb

Quality job Ray

thanks don,i must admit they do look good.just got my new widowhood boxes to do next then ny new yb end.i think sometimes when you change things about it gives you a boost.i,m looking to forward to racing even more next season

very good job well done they look spot on sean

i forgot to put the grills in for the photo ,but they are in now

very nice. so what is the plan, to keep them locked in when not at exercise or in the other section. is this instead of putting them out in the aviary.

lovely job ray.

we lock them up.if you do,nt fresh hens will pair.someone once said to me hens wo,nt pair up.if they are fresh enough they will believe me...so now they are locked up from sunday to friday and it does,nt harm them one bit

but you do race them ray? they are on roundabout? so how often do you exercise them? do they trap back into the cocks' section etc?

seems a lot of work having to re box them and feed in the box, do you think an aviary would be better?

i have no doubt but that they will pair. sure as there is sh1t in a duck. Bill

If ya put um on floor grills and on T Perches you would never have a problem with them pairing with each other, stewhit told me about a guy me met recently who a mesh floor in his hens section with a fantail cock underneath the mesh.
He reckoned he never had a hen pair with another hen.

if theyre on t perches and floor grilles, what is it about the grilles that stops them pairing up?

so were the hens paired to the fantail gaz ...?