Post by Afterstorm on Jan 17, 2007 15:59:37 GMT -5
OK guys, so I need a fairly portable full-time mews. I am a college student, so not only will I only be here for 4 years, but I leave every summer. I have land to hunt/build on (thanks to my 3 horse-training jobs) at college as well as my ranch and my dad's house back home. It needs to be sturdy enough to withstand coastal winds (though I'm not going to leave it or the bird outside during a hurricane, even good weather there is crazy windy). I can put a separate enclosed box inside the mews when weather up in north Texas is frosty (it rarely gets below 30, and we never have standing snow, but still, it gets chilly), but the bird can not come into the dorms, so it is stuck in whatever I give it regardless of weather. During the summer, Texas gets up to 103 degrees with a heat index around 120, so I need sufficient heating and ample cooling. The big problem is I will be disassembling and reassembling the thing at least twice a year, and it has to be transported the 500 miles back to my hometown in the back of my mid-sized truck with everything else that I have with me at college (all in one trip). Any ideas?
Post by crbhawking on Jan 17, 2007 19:24:17 GMT -5
well first off you don't have to keep the bird through the summer so that makes the 103 degrees not an issue but for winter the birds shouldn't have a problem, for they put up with it in the wild. for the wind issue just put the windows on the side the wind isn't coming from. also for the travelling thing, if im not mistaken the regs. say that you can only have a temporary mews for 30 days, so you would have to be home for only 30 days for that to work. they may not count your other house as a temporary but i don't know. also if you get one of those foldable horse stals and put a roof on if, it would be sturdy yet portable.
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