As you can see this was a castle of a pigeon coop. Well, for a 12 year old it was and I was quite chuffed with my dad and myself..

Basic Construction:

Concrete footings

Wooden planked floor

Corrugated tin roof

Plywood exterior

Of course there was chicken mesh wire on the front door and I could clean the inside regularly. Inside was seperated into 2 sections so I could seperate birds that were to be homed away from the homed flock. the entrance for the pigeons was through the top landing where we used u nails to fasten number eight fencing wire that we hard fashioned into large u's. This allowed the birds to enter the coop anytime but stopped them leaving once inside. I would raise them in the mornings and at night to free them.

Cleaning

Every Saturday without fail I would remove all the droppings and white wash the entire inside of the coup after I thoroughly hosed it out. This was an essential part of the care of my birds. When so many birds are in an enclosed space for any period of time their dwelling must be kept very clean as disease or illness would otherwise spread very fast among the birds.

There were eventually 150 + pigeons at my pigeon breeding peak. I tell you it was a glorious flock when you watched them on an early morning soaring through the sky. I could have watched them for hours and often did. There is nothing as enjoyable as releasing hundreds of birds in the morning and seeing them happily return to the home you built for them.