Advice Please!!!!!!

[Guest Grasshopper Lofts]

Would like peoples comments on the following please.

 

i have a dilema my loft is 22ft x 9 ft with 4 sections 1 for stock 1 for y.bs 1 for hens 1 for cocks would u,

 

A, have a 2.5 ft wide flight/aviary along the entire front of the loft with one trap on it for all birds to enter or

 

B, keep the sections as they are and just add a flight/avairy at both ends of the loft (stock and y/b sections) and have open door in the middle sections keeping the corridor thats in place now (i will be trying roundabout next year with my old birds)

 

any advice would be appreciated maybe there is another way of doing things please comment

 

thanks

[PIGEON_MAN]

Are you considering having ETS at some time if so having just one trap would save you a lot of money in the long run.

[Guest Grasshopper Lofts]

Are you considering having ETS at some time if so having just one trap would save you a lot of money in the long run.

 

hi mate already have ets was thinking of only using it for young birds though

[PIGEON_MAN]

Once you have used it you will want to use it all the time it makes everything so much easier.

[kirky]

i use 1 sputnik for roundabout with ets pad in bottom, then move it to yb trap, only have avery for stock birds, have found when yb have an avery thay tend to land on it a lot when racing & training you wont them on the trap or close to it,

[pigeonscout]

I use ets at floor level into corridor at the first section they then walk up the corridor to their own section. This way the young birds will use same trap when old birds.

[pjc]

Aviary for the stockbirds and I prefer a trap for each section. If you have a flight along the front with a single trap when the bird arrives he will run up and down it looking for his section rather than just heading for the single trap which may nit be near his section.

[Guest IB]

All birds benefit from an aviary, so having it along the front of each section sounds good to me ~ another advantage I can think of is on race days when the returning bird can see birds 'already' in the loft, it will have less hesitation going in;

 

One way in & out for all birds would be my preference, that is what I have just now ~ 'one' open door. And I need only 1 ets pad, young, old & stock birds go over it.

[Albear]

If you are flying roundabout next year it may be that you will have ob flying out for 4 hours in a day (cocks & hens 2 hrs each). I would go for end aviaries but if you are getting birds out on roundabout, you will need to keep the stock and yb out of the avaries whilst they are out. Just a practical point.

[Guest Grasshopper Lofts]

thanks for the advice guys more to think about again lol and nice to see your back albear

[Albear]

Thanks