bigwilly
320 posts
Feb 02, 2008
8:29 PM
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Hey guys. I made 26 breeder boxes and I put wire bottoms on them.I noticed that the holes are getting filled with waste. I dont like to see them walking on it all day. I am aware that I should made the boxes bigger and added a larger wire bottoms. My question to you is, do you think that I should be concerned about the breeders waking on their waste all day?
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rollerman132
241 posts
Feb 02, 2008
8:39 PM
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I use 1x1 square wire for the bottoms of individual breeding boxes, some poop gets stuck on the wire but most goes threw. Smack the rest of it down with a scraper when it dries.
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bigwilly
323 posts
Feb 02, 2008
8:41 PM
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I was just woundering. I heard some homer racer guys talk about this
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rollermanx0
307 posts
Feb 02, 2008
8:53 PM
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THE BIRDS WILL GET PATHOGENS THROUGH THIER FEET AND EVENTUALLY GET SICK...YOU GOTTA SCRAPE THE BOTTOMS EER DAY BRAH!
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rOLLerManx0
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bigwilly
329 posts
Feb 02, 2008
8:56 PM
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Scrappin evryday single boxes is alot of work Roller. I goota change those bottoms or work myself to death
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rollermanx0
308 posts
Feb 02, 2008
8:58 PM
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LOL! YOU FEEL ME.....
I'M SURE YOU WITH THE BIRDS EVERYDAY....YOU'LL BE ABLE TO HAVE A LIL MORE INTIMATE TIME SCRAPING EER DAY...LOL!
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rOLLerManx0
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bigwilly
335 posts
Feb 02, 2008
9:07 PM
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shiiiiiii
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rollermanx0
310 posts
Feb 02, 2008
9:16 PM
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LMAO!
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rOLLerManx0
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Canspinners
87 posts
Feb 02, 2008
9:18 PM
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If you want to keep it aas clean as possible and for your ease of care for the birds use bigger wire.
I have heard that actually leaving the the waste actually promotes breeding and good health in the birds as the waste builds it starts to form good bacteria that will eat and distroy any bad bacteria.
A friend of mine had the cleanest coop and had illness and poor breeding. In fact all the guys in the hobby use to comment on how clean his coop always was.
One season he let the waste from the birds build up on the floor and the nest boxes .Beleive it or not he had his best breeding season in 15 years and all the birds were healthy. Personally I would not be able to stand keeping a dirty coop. just sharing has any one else experienced the same
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luis
594 posts
Feb 02, 2008
9:27 PM
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I believe clean is good but birds need to build immunity to decease so a little dirty from time to time won't kill um'!!Pigeons are hardy...for the most part.
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Scott Campbell
6 posts
Feb 02, 2008
10:22 PM
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26 ? must be a typo
Scott
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Windjammer Loft
207 posts
Feb 03, 2008
9:01 AM
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bigwilly.....I'd just make sure I would keep an eye on how dirty the floor gets. Clean it as you see fit. I believe that the next time you won't make this same mistake...LOL
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Fly High and Roll On
Paul
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bigwilly
339 posts
Feb 03, 2008
9:08 AM
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Scott no typo 26 boxes. I am going to battle the BOP and the only way is to breed alot of birds.
Windjammer. I know know lol
Last Edited by on Feb 03, 2008 9:09 AM
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Scott Campbell
18 posts
Feb 03, 2008
11:06 AM
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Willy, let me tell you a little story , 4 or five years ago I had a flyer down hill from me, I could see his roof top from here (I'm on a hill) when the leaves are off of the tree's, and some days if I looked hard I could see his kit.
This flyer bred year round and bred lots of birds,but had a hard time keeping a full kit.
I would listen to his stories on how the bops would be chewing him up, everything from Coops to RedTails, it was like he lived in another world.
Here and there my birds would get blown into his RedTails air space and they would be all over my team until they got back into the airspace of the RedTails that live here on my hill that weren't trained to eat Rollers.
The bottom line Willy is that he was a feed trough,nothing more, and it was a great day when he finaly moved, now the BOPs migrate out with everything else, what I am getting at is many create their own problems and on top of it create an atmospher where the BOPs thrive due to feeding them.
Twenty six pair ? one you can't breed decent percentages that way and you will breed tons of culls that will hold the good one's back.
Once the short days and weather hits your time will be ate up flying far more garbage than good ones , and lastly you will be nothing but a food trough , in short it is a lot of wasted feed and time, no one has 26 pairs that are worth breeding unless their standards are wanting,no one.
Good luck
Scott
Last Edited by on Feb 03, 2008 4:36 PM
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W@yne
1020 posts
Feb 03, 2008
11:15 AM
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Scotty you are so correct 26 breeding pair wow i wished i had 26 flawless rollers never mind 26 stock pair
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W@yne UK
Patience Perseverance Perfection
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bigwilly
347 posts
Feb 03, 2008
1:09 PM
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hey Scott thanks alot
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Scott Campbell
28 posts
Feb 03, 2008
4:38 PM
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Just a something to chew on buddy.
Scott
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