Dickiebirds

My first birdroom started off as an 8ft x 6ft garden shed, as you can see it's been extended slightly. It has an 8ft x 8ft outdoor flight with a covered roof and the birdroom itself is now 14ft x 8ft. It contains 12 breeding cages worktop, storage space and a couple of nursery cages. It also contains cctv, which is linked to the house.

As all breeders find out, their will come a time when you need more space. I recently purchased another shed also timber construction, this has been  fully insulated and lined to help keep the temperature more even. This is to house the youngsters and contains an indoor flight and small worktop. Also 3 stock cages, that can also be converted to breeding cages if required.

New Birdroom

Indoor view, flight at the end and stock cages to the left.

Stock Cages

My nestboxes are the box in a box type, my nestboxes were purchased from Basil Thomas of Thomas Cages, costly at the time, but an investment that I have never regretted. The birds are kept safe and secure and the insert lifts out for inspection. When we decided to use the new birdroom for breeding, Willie thought he would try and make nestboxes, it kept him busy for a while and I have to say that he made quite a good job of them, not the box in a box type, but the same size as the others, the only fault I found with them was, that having covered the bottom in wood shavings some of the hens threw out most of them and because the bases were flat, the eggs rolled around too much and became addled, this was easily solved and I purchased concaves placed them in the bottom, covered them in wood shavings and have not had the problem since.

These days, this is something we all have to think about unfortunately, both our sheds are alarmed, have CCTV

and Simba