Wooden Floor Grills

[Guest Gareth Rankin]

Can i ask the opinion of fanciers that have changed from the standard wooden floor to using the wooden grills, can you give the positives and the negatives and would you change if you had the opportunity to do so again.

[yeboah]

Can i ask the opinion of fanciers that have changed from the standard wooden floor to using the wooden grills, can you give the positives and the negatives and would you change if you had the opportunity to do so again.

 

 

Hi Gareth

 

I made removable trays for nest boxes and fitted petron grills above ,thought it was ok to

 

start with easy cleaning ,but took a dislike to it as i thought it harbored to much dust

 

same applies with floor grills ,to me better using scraper as often as possible

 

trays and grills just for lazy people,after all we wouldn't like a tray under our bed omo

 

[Rooster J. Cogburn]

I had grills in one loft but not anymore.

 

I'd only ever use them again if it was a section where I kept hens to discourage pairing-I didn't think the pigeons liked walking on them at all.

I always had a tendancy to drop stuff down them rings,pens etc. which was a bit of a nuisance.

 

With nesting pigeons as well I found that a lot of the nesting materials were wasted as they just fell through the grills.

 

Suppose though if your a stickler for keeping your pigeons away from droppings and short on time or arent able to clean out they could be suitable

[Guest Gareth Rankin]

Thanks lads, anyone else have an opinion on wooden grills.

[Guest Tooshy Boy]

GARETH.LOSS TO MUTCH FEEDING . AND SOME WHERE ELSE FOR THE MICE TO GO..//

[gulkie]

agree with the guys above ,had them some years ago

but prefer to scrape out as often as pos now.

[VAGIN]

When you have hard floors you can check the droppings anytime you enter the loft.

The problem with grill floors the dropping dissapear and you dont find out you have

something wrong with your birds, until its too late.

[jimmy_bulger]

better off with bare floor scraper and loft white

[Roundo]

I have wooden grills in my stock loft purely to save me time cleaning etc, time that can be spent with the race birds. I also have them in my hen section, purely to discourage them from pairing with each other.

The race sections don't have grills, they are cleaned twice a day everyday, and I wouldn't have it any other way.

 

Colin.

[geordie1234]

better off with bare floor scraper and loft white

whats loft white ?

[VMS]

Have wooden floor grills in one of our lofts with easy bed underneath,apart from lifting the grills twice a year to clean out and disinfect the only downside would be the loss of the larger feeding grains.But on the whole probably a lot less hassle than scraping floors every day.

[Guest flecklygriz]

Thanks lads, anyone else have an opinion on wooden grills.

Hi Gareth I wouldn't have anything else .I use easy bed underneath them it has a nice woody smell droppings dry off quickly if yo have the grills made in manageable sections you can lift them say once a month and remove the dry droppings add a little easy bed and away you go Its each to his own and if anyone out there want to sell any I need to deck 3 six ft sections will pay carriage as well best luck flecklygriz

[moscow master]

Hi Gareth my full loft is floor grills and scrap the boxes under the grills is verselaga granuals that keep everything bone dry as for losing feeding just sit your feeder on a tray a couple of inches bigger than the feeder to catch spilt feeding simple but the biggest advantage is very little dust if pigeons are flapping about unlike a scrapped floor all the dust that's in the corners blows all over the place grills all the way mate

[Delboy]

If I was building a new loft it would have plastic/wooden floor grills with a floor that could be pulled out to the front of the loft to clean, just the same idea as the tray in the grilled nest boxes. You can then clean regularly and still keep the pigeons away from the droppings.

[geordie1234]

If I was building a new loft it would have plastic/wooden floor grills with a floor that could be pulled out to the front of the loft to clean, just the same idea as the tray in the grilled nest boxes. You can then clean regularly and still keep the pigeons away from the droppings.

Me tae that would be ideal

[andy Burgess]

hopefully he made a decision over 4 years ago ,rather waiting till now

[C WRIGHT]

all my loft sections have floor grills one foot from ground level

fitted with sliding stainless steel trays which slide out to the outside of loft and can be easy cleaned outside

thus cuasing no dust rise inside when cleaning

trays are have 2 inches of verselaga granuals in them at all times

works for me and dont seem to have any dust problems

[Delboy]

all my loft sections have floor grills one foot from ground level

fitted with sliding stainless steel trays which slide out to the outside of loft and can be easy cleaned outside

thus cuasing no dust rise inside when cleaning

trays are have 2 inches of verselaga granuals in them at all times

works for me and dont seem to have any dust problems

 

perfect

[Rooster J. Cogburn]

I was looking through some of my old pictorials recently and came across one from shortly after Jim Biss built his lofts at Hillside.

 

There was a pit underneath the grills big enough for a man to walk in, hose out etc.

 

Another interesting feature was a corridor that ran behind the nest boxes. Each box had an inch gap at the back level with the box floor and a lot of the dust blew out the back when the birds flew up to their perch.

 

An old write up, but some good ideas and tips. Everything seemed to be very well thought out.

[William Reid]

I was looking through some of my old pictorials recently and came across one from shortly after Jim Biss built his lofts at Hillside.

 

There was a pit underneath the grills big enough for a man to walk in, hose out etc.

 

Another interesting feature was a corridor that ran behind the nest boxes. Each box had an inch gap at the back level with the box floor and a lot of the dust blew out the back when the birds flew up to their perch.

 

An old write up, but some good ideas and tips. Everything seemed to be very well thought out.

.

[geordie1234]

I was looking through some of my old pictorials recently and came across one from shortly after Jim Biss built his lofts at Hillside.

 

There was a pit underneath the grills big enough for a man to walk in, hose out etc.

 

Another interesting feature was a corridor that ran behind the nest boxes. Each box had an inch gap at the back level with the box floor and a lot of the dust blew out the back when the birds flew up to their perch.

 

An old write up, but some good ideas and tips. Everything seemed to be very well thought out.

There was a fancier on elimar not long ago with similar set up corridor behind the boxes

[tommy bhoys]

Can i ask the opinion of fanciers that have changed from the standard wooden floor to using the wooden grills, can you give the positives and the negatives and would you change if you had the opportunity to do so again.

have wooden grills in four lofts they can be slippy when wet prefer the metal grills. if i had the time and less lofts the scrapper would be my choice

[Big Davie]

have wooden grills in four lofts they can be slippy when wet prefer the metal grills. if i had the time and less lofts the scrapper would be my choice

Tommy

I thought you liked things that were wet and slippy!!!

[steff30]

Tommy

I thought you liked things that were wet and slippy!!!

Davie, I think the big man is getting to old for that carry on now.

[tommy bhoys]

Tommy

I thought you liked things that were wet and slippy!!!

pmsl brill