IN-LOFT BATH

[Guest Blue Pied Cock]

Do any of you have any designs for an in loft bath which the birds can go in without the water going all over the place. I think I remember seeing one in an old video that I purchased.

 

Many Thanks.

[Guest anthony]

I realy dont know how to explain this but you should have a bath with a cover high enough to let the pigeons go in without spalishing the water,like a dome on the bath with an opening

[Wiley]

if you had a loft like this mate you could let the birds out in the aviary(trapping board also) for a bath then loft wouldnt get damp http://www.redroselofts.com/hammonds_loft.htm

[AlanWilkins]

I just place a normal bath in then scrape the floor clean kitchen roll then blow torch the floor never had any problems and the floor is imaculate

[Peckedhen]

An idea....but don't know if it would work!

 

My birds bath in one of those large under bed storage boxes.  They come with a lid - which I just discarded but, if you cut a hole in the middle, large enough for the birds to get in and out, maybe the splashes would stay in the box??

[Chatrace]

I also have an out side cover over the landing board that I just place a pan of water  for the bath. here is what it looks like. If I can find a shot of them in the bath I will post it in a bit.

[Guest]

Lol Wiley,I always laugh when I see Bruce's "Yellow submarine"

 

Just another point about that type of loft, you can put the bath pans out with the front closed, and the birds can bathe in pease, safe from peditor attack.

[Guest]

I don't know if a closed-in bath would be popular with the birds, need to be able to get out quickly if one turns stroppy on the others.

 

I use a conventional bath inside the loft which sits on bare concrete floor ... deep litter is brushed well away from reach of splashes from the birds, and wall behind the bath gets well splashed but is an impervious melamine finish.

 

Usually put down a handful of lime on the few damp spots.

[Wiley]

hyacinth i am going to convert a garden shed over christmas period to something simiular lol but dont think ill be going for the bright colours

[Guest]

If you need any hel with the conversion give me a pm

[paul k]

we use a garden waterbutt, cut down to about a foot deep, as long as you only put an couple of inches of water in it its fine.

[Pigeons4U]

Could always try an "Anti-Spill" / Sputnik bath.  

 

Only works effectively if the lid is used as-well though  ;D

[likklegriz]

like alan w i just stick mine in the loft brings the floor up brill after when i scape out and in this mild weather it soon dries

[ALF]

Could always try an "Anti-Spill" / Sputnik bath.  

 

Only works effectively if the lid is used as-well though  ;D

 

 

I BOUGHT 1 LIKE THIS AT BLACKPOOL A COUPLE OF YEARS AGO COST ABOUT A TENNER AND IT DOES HELP TO KEEP THE LOFT DRY A BIT!!!

 

[Wiley]

thanks hyacinth might have to take you up on the offer

[THE FIFER]

put plenty old newspapers down on the floor,

[sapper756]

I reguraly put a bath in my aviary and scrape the floor afterwards, with no problems.

[Guest speckled]

well i prepher my birds to bath out side the loft,but if the weathewrs so servire i will put one in the coridoor, the stock birds have a avairy. so theres go in threre. which my avairy is on legs so its well off the floor, :-/ it sort of extended to the loft so the water falls down not in to the loft. But dont care what ya say  ya cant keep a bird from spashing if it enjoys the bath, ;D Speck

[jimmy white]

;D ;D true,,,so true ;D ;D  ;D

[jimmy white]

i have concrete in the bottom of my small aviary, shaped to run in to a grid in the corner , so after theve had a bath , put some bleach in bathwater , clean bath , pour out and hard brush floor, then  hose it clean , two jobs done  ;in one ;D

[stevebelbin]

I put the bath in the aviary which is raised a foot of the ground with a mesh floor so the water just drains away. The birds love the bath and will bath and then just sit in the aviary all day no matter how cold it is  ;D. Cant see it being a good idea to have the bath in the loft!!!!

[Guest Paulo]

got my new aviary to build soon

[mosslands1]

why dont you think more modern instead of a bath why not give them a shower i give mine a shower in the loft  i just put the sprinkler on the hose pipe . my loft is ten foot off  the ground and grill floor and drains below but iam sure you could make a cubicle with pump and filter i made one for my dad years ago i used bottom off plastic 45 gallon drum a piece of clear polythene stapled to inside of bath then i used three washer motors from scrap cars and car battery and three pieces of rigid wire to hold polythene up so its like a tent use windscreen washer pipe from scrap car and its colapsable . or you could use fish tank motor any way just a thought for you to consider lol  

[mosslands1]

i forgot to mention i put my bath under my shower so they have both at the same time

[Wiley]

Cant see it being a good idea to have the bath in the loft!!!!

 

neither can i! done this a few years ago then dried with tissue and used a blow torch, i felt it done and could of caused alot of other problems in my loft.Never would do it again!