creeksidelofts
5 posts
Mar 06, 2008
8:22 PM
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Just seeing if anyone else uses drop traps on their kit box?I started trying to make different ones and finally have a three hole trap that they can't fly back out.The birds don't shy back from them like they do with the bobs when you start training them. Tony Creeksidelofts
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Santandercol
2116 posts
Mar 06, 2008
8:26 PM
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Tony Creekside,
I use 4" 45 degree ABS(plastic)drain pipes screwed right into the front of the kitbox.The YBs like 'em and nobody escapes
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Kel.
Rum-30 Lofts
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PR_rollers
651 posts
Mar 06, 2008
8:30 PM
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same here .works great.
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Ralph....
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creeksidelofts
6 posts
Mar 06, 2008
8:35 PM
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I saw pics of a kit box with them like that.
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Santandercol
2125 posts
Mar 06, 2008
9:06 PM
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Somewhere there is a thread here with my kitboxes pics,red ones.
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Kel.
Rum-30 Lofts
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creeksidelofts
7 posts
Mar 06, 2008
9:11 PM
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Seems like the ones I saw were red and had some rollers sitting on top the box.I bought the 45 after seeing the pics but never tried them.I ended up making them out of wood. Tony
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Santandercol
2128 posts
Mar 06, 2008
9:22 PM
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Yeah probably my pics.Simple to install and they work the cats behind.
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Kel.
Rum-30 Lofts
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Windjammer Loft
252 posts
Mar 07, 2008
8:23 AM
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Creeksideloft............got any pic of them? I'd like to see how they look.
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Fly High and Roll On
Paul
Last Edited by on Mar 07, 2008 8:23 AM
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mcroller
103 posts
Mar 07, 2008
2:42 PM
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I use dryer vent ,cut ott af 5 in ,screws on from out side ,easy to clean . jimmi
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creeksidelofts
8 posts
Mar 07, 2008
3:34 PM
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I don't right now but I will try and take some.Tony Creeksidelofts
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creeksidelofts
9 posts
Mar 08, 2008
12:24 PM
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creeksidelofts
10 posts
Mar 08, 2008
12:29 PM
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The landing board closes to keep anything out.You can open the trap to let the birds out to fly.I have less trouble training young birds with these.Tony
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Werstler
26 posts
Mar 08, 2008
2:21 PM
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I have used the coffee can that is about 4 inches around, they make good traps but I wouldn't use them close to the ground, I leave mine open all the time and have never had anything go in other than the rollers. I hope these pictures aren't to small too see the trap.
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J_Star
1557 posts
Mar 08, 2008
4:18 PM
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You must've been lucky dude or lucky rollers thus far that a cat did not find its way in. In due hime...shit happens I guess.
Jay
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jerries loft
120 posts
Mar 08, 2008
6:27 PM
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yeah i would be careful leaveing them open all time.There is always something that can find the way in.
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Jerries Loft
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sippi
102 posts
Mar 08, 2008
6:57 PM
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I left my bobs open for forty years with no problems whatsoever. Forty one years later I had a cooper go in my Oriental loft and wipe out most of the 07 birds. I dont leave mine open no more.
Sippi
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Werstler
27 posts
Mar 08, 2008
7:01 PM
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I have a older modle of the above cages I've been using it for 15 yrs. the only problem I had was I used wood doweling so it would "look cool" a racoon bit through the dowels and got in, I changed to wire and no problems since then. I live in the sierra nevada mountian, there are feral cats around and other animals so far nothing has got in.. but it is still possible. using the wood doweling I've had cats jump up and pop thier heads off.. I'm a wire only kind of guy now.. only doweling on the inside
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