How to make a cage for chickens

How to make a cage for chickens

Hens very quick birds and if to release them freely to walk, then a part of a harvest it will be safe a poprobovana, and another is spoiled. Therefore it is better to keep these fowls in a cage or the open-air cage from which they won't be able to escape on freedom. The inexperienced master can't make a cage with own hands even, to chickens beauty of creation, than to you isn't so important. Stock up with necessary materials and get to work.

It is required to you

  • - bars of a tree of 12 pieces.
  • - nails
  • - grid chain-link
  • - wire

Instruction

1. Take bars length necessary for you. Everything depends on the cage sizes. For example, if you want a cage of 1 m × 1 m, then and bars have to have corresponding length. The work of art will turn out of 1 cubic meter in which 2-4 chickens will easily get on. For hens such living space has to be from calculation: 1 chicken on a cage.

2. Bring down bars in two squares, then beat side parts that the cube turned out. Carefully check whether nails are well hammered if there are sharp parts, surely make them sideways and carefully punch the hammer. If there are sharp places, hens can be damaged and even to die therefore draw close attention to it.

3. Take a grid chain-link with small openings. And here from what material it will be and in what color - to solve to you, animals all the same won't pay attention to it. Previously cut it on squares of the necessary size, but they have to be several centimeters wider that was for what to beat. Record a grid on bars nails. The cage is almost ready, it was necessary only to make an entrance.

4. Cut out in one party a small opening, about 25 × 25 cm. The grid will begin to be dismissed therefore twist the cut parts of a wire flat-nose pliers. Use the cut-out piece of a grid as an entrance. You can make a door of bars of the smaller size, and you can just fasten a delay and record a small square from a grid chain-link a wire, but so that if necessary it was possible to open a door. In this case, the door will open in one party.

5. Housing for hens is ready, you can start them to it, but previously put food and water. In principle, hens need to be grown up in the open-air cage. If you were going to keep them in a cage, don't forget to lay wooden plates on a floor, it will be inconvenient to go on a wire to them. You can lay also a little straw.

Author: «MirrorInfo» Dream Team


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