Ordinary pigeons live in severe seasonal and climatic and fodder conditions. Birds with toeless extremities, and sometimes and simply exhausted or the fallen individuals who froze in snow eloquently demonstrate to it. Decorative breeds of pigeons, in view of smaller fitness, especially require thorough care, feeding and keeping in nursery.
It is required to you
- - wooden boards;
- - sheet iron;
- - roofing material;
- - slate;
- - plaster;
- - tow;
- - carpenter's and construction tool.
Instruction
1. First of all it is necessary to decide in what breeds of pigeons you will be engaged how many birds intend to contain in the future. Also it is necessary to consider in what place and at what height there is an opportunity to put nursery. The type and the sizes of future dwelling of your wards will depend on these parameters.
2. At design and construction of nursery you remember that optimum quantity of individuals in pack 9-11 couples are considered. On each bird it is required to from 0.5 to 1 m3 of the territory, depending on the extent of the divorced breed. The lodge has to have two offices for separate keeping of pigeons from a pigeon in winter season, one office for young growth, and one more for forages and stock.
3. Usually the imagination draws to the beginning pigeon fancier the birds enclosures located on a roof of the shed, a garage or the house however build them also on the earth. The main condition at the same time – the nursery has to be not below than in 25 cm from the soil. It is necessary to orient it so that the facade with an exit and a light window looked at the South or the southeast for natural solar lighting.
4. Height of rooms in open-air cages has to be about 2 m, the area of light windows – not less tenth part of the square of a floor of office. At the height of 10-15 cm from floors and in a roof make ventilating windows with the doors which are densely closed for the winter. With their help you will get rid of humidity in nursery, to regulate temperature which should not fall in the winter lower than 7C °, and to rise higher than 20C ° in the summer.
5. The box of nursery is built of wooden boards, of the iron sheets sheathed inside by plywood or boards. In the area with severe winters of a wall do double, with laying of heater between them. Inside the ceiling and walls plaster, having hammered cracks with tow. It is necessary to roof sheets of iron, roofing material or slate.
6. Anyway, with what you would not have potential at construction of a pigeon lodge, consider that decorative breeds of these birds indoors do not take out humidity, cold weather is lower than five degrees and a heat higher than twenty. You remember also that the device, the sizes of nursery and an entrance to it have to be such that you might support him in purity and an order.