Feed, medicine and
supplies
storage area is a 10 ft x 10 ft section at the NW corner of the
barn.
Across from this area we have about six 30 gallon Rubbermaid trash cans
storing the feed we're currently using. |
View from the North
door
looking down the row of 10 ft x 10 ft pens on the East side of the
barn.
We'll be building pens on the West side this coming week, May 1-8 and
documenting
pen construction with photos as we go to post on the website next week.
We use this 18HP tractor with two trailers, one to haul water in 5
gallon
buckets and the other is a dump trailer for cleaning the pens. |
View of the barn's
center
aisle from the South end. |
Night time shot of
the
pens with all the lights on. |
Inside of the
Egyptian
Fayoumi pen on the South end. On the right wall is the plywood
nest
box with 6 nests and the roosts are on the left wall. The roosts
are made from 2x2 lumber (7 ft long, 18" apart) and are hinged at the
top
so we can fold them up out of the way to clean the pen or change litter
(pine shavings). |
The Lakenvelder pen
at
night with the lights on. We haven't had time to build nest boxed
for all of the pens, although we already have the lumber. Each
pen
has a 40 watt incandescent bulb on a timer and a 250 watt heat lamp
hanging
from the trusses that can be switched on if it drops below freezing. |
The doors are
24"x72" made
of "lapped" 2"x4" pine lumber glued and screwed together. They
have
two 4" brass hinges, a brass handle and bolt lock. The light
switches
and a duplex electrical outlet are on the 4x4 posts to the left of each
pen. The 40 pound capacity hanging feeders are suspended on
chains
from the trusses and hung at the level of the birds' back to keep them
from scratching the feed out. |
Another view of the
pens
on the East wall of the barn. The area to the near right of this
picture is a 10'x10' section we use as a workshop while we're finishing
the pens on the other side of the barn. The tractor is also
parked
here in the winter. This end of the barn faces our house. |
Inside
the New Barn
