gator45juice
7 posts
Nov 03, 2007
6:58 PM
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Hello Fellow fanciers, I am currently getting back into the hobby after a 10 year absence. I am in the process of collecting ideas and plans for my new loft that I will be building soon. I only have a little space. I was thinking of building a loft 4x8 that will accomodate my breeding, break up, and flying all in one! If you guys would be so kind to submit as many pix of your lofts as possible so I can get some sort of Idea as to which route to go. I have seen many lofts, but I am open to new and fresh ideas. I am sure ther are fanciers out there with great lofts and ideas for future lofts. Any help you can provide or suggestions would be greatly appreciated.
Thanx, Gator!
Last Edited by on Nov 03, 2007 7:00 PM
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sundance
262 posts
Nov 03, 2007
7:46 PM
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Butch @
Sundance Roller Lofts
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Santandercol
1590 posts
Nov 03, 2007
9:00 PM
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Hi Gator,
4X8ft is small but that's the size I started with and now have 4X20ft + 5 kitboxes and another 4X8ft loft for breeding my Homers and Doneks.Check out what I started with at
www.redroselofts.com/starter_loft.htm
There are plans there and lots of pics.
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Kelly
Last Edited by on Nov 03, 2007 9:02 PM
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crystalpalace
150 posts
Nov 03, 2007
9:43 PM
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Sundance that is a great loft and kit box setup. The deck does make it look more attractive. The color is cool too. I have a kit box that consists of seven compartments and it is one of a kind also. It has three four foot compartments in the front and the same slanting on the side like wings. Two more kit pens four foot on each side would make it sixteen feet on both sides. It would make it look better perspective wise. That would make seven kit boxes. It has a deck wrapped around too. The doors in front are four feet for a faster release and the doors in the inside back are three feet. I have four custom three tier wire cages inside for individual breeding. Ill put it on this site someday. Rollers in the sport,Ray.
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RUDY..ZUPPPPP
379 posts
Nov 04, 2007
2:33 AM
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Hey crystal palace post some pics of your kit box..??
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yang501424
29 posts
Nov 04, 2007
8:21 AM
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Looks like i can already live in sundance loft. LOL
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zman
6 posts
Nov 04, 2007
3:04 PM
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Breeder Loft 10'x7'
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gotspin7
351 posts
Nov 04, 2007
4:24 PM
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Zman, nice set up!
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sundance
264 posts
Nov 04, 2007
4:34 PM
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thanks for the nice comments guys. My wife says I can almost live in the loft too. Not sure if shes kidding...Hmmm
The deck was added to keep her from #_*^&><# about the mud that I tracked in the house. Its a work in progress.
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Butch @
Sundance Roller Lofts
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CSRA
383 posts
Nov 04, 2007
5:27 PM
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Very nice lofts
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Windjammer Loft
18 posts
Nov 08, 2007
3:25 PM
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This is my loft,their are 4 kitboxes on the west side:
This is the front rightside where white birds are;
These are my kitboxes on the west side of the loft;
You can also go to the thread "My Loft in progress" and see detailed pic of my loft.
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Fly High and Roll On
Paul
Last Edited by on Nov 08, 2007 4:01 PM
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Fire Brewed Rollers
16 posts
Nov 08, 2007
7:55 PM
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This loft is 12' X 6' and has 2 sets of the Crown 8 Compartment Breeding Pens in it.
You can build a 4’ X 8’ loft with room for some hens & cocks on each end if you used 1 set of the Crown 8 Compartment Breeding Boxes. My Kit boxes are 12’ long for a set of 3 so a set of 2 would come out to be 8’ long also. Hope these photos give you a couple good ideas.
To build nesting boxes, time & material, those Crown Breeding Pens can’t be beat.
Robert Miller
Fire Brewed Rollers
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Mrconductor
54 posts
Nov 09, 2007
9:44 PM
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Robert what are those rain gutter thingy's in that last picture?
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Ed B.
Man of few words due to a lack of typing skills.
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Electric-man
824 posts
Nov 09, 2007
10:04 PM
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Feed chutes! I'm betting! I would like to see a better picture of what looks like an automatic watering system!
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Val
"Site Moderator"
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RUDY..ZUPPPPP
422 posts
Nov 10, 2007
6:07 AM
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Nice pictures Robert
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Fire Brewed Rollers
18 posts
Nov 10, 2007
8:54 AM
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Hi Ed & Val
Your Bet is right for the rain chutes; they feed bulk feeders in my Cockatiel cages so I don’t have to open the doors to feed.
The water bowls in my kit boxes are hooked up to a standard lawn sprinkler timer and valve, PVC pipe with a plug on the end with an 1/8 hole drilled in it, feeding 9 water bowls total. The catch tray under the bowls send the over flow water thru PVI to the trees in my back yard. Adjust the water pressure on the top of the sprinkler valve and I run it for 5 minutes every day, flushes everything out very nicely. This system I have been using for the last 20 years.
In my breeding loft I use a swamp cooler float in a plastic tub feeding the watering to the water cups thru plastics tubing (clear 7/16” if I remember right from home depo). The cups have a little yellow lever that lets the water in, the birds push the lever when the water gets low. They work real nice, those I have been using only 2 years.
The only training ever needed is to show a pigeon that gets moved from the kit box to the breeding loft, after the second day when he is thirsty I push the yellow lever and he will find the water real fast. They only have to be shown once. Going right into the breeding pen, if the cup is full one time they never need to be shown.
The cup with the cover over it is in the loft for the extra hens, they can can get poop in it so it has the cover.
Robert Miller
Fire Brewed Rollers
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Windjammer Loft
26 posts
Nov 11, 2007
8:31 AM
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Fire Brewed....I REALLY like your breeding loft. I wished our winters here weren't so bad. I'd really like to have a set-up like that. I too use the individual breeding compartments like you have, but they are enclosed inside my loft.
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Fly High and Roll On
Paul
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fhtfire
1176 posts
Nov 11, 2007
3:40 PM
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Here you go....
rock and ROLL
Paul
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extremerollers
1 post
Nov 11, 2007
4:22 PM
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this website shows a pretty cool way to build a small loft that can be customized and varied to fit your needs http://www.redroselofts.com/starter_loft.htm
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quickspin
650 posts
May 27, 2008
8:23 PM
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More lofts
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SALAS LOFT
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kopetsa
742 posts
May 27, 2008
10:57 PM
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Very Nice lofts guys.. Uh Sundance, is that YOUR house or the pigeon house? That is a palace! Very well done. It even has it own deck...
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Andrew
Last Edited by on May 27, 2008 10:58 PM
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WaTtS UpP
896 posts
May 28, 2008
10:20 PM
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nice lofts
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Watts uppp homeboy
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