Post by christoffking on Mar 24, 2009 18:41:30 GMT -5
OK here the situation, in about 2 weeks I'm dragging my family down to help me build my mew in exchange for my muscle for there projects, i have a base that is wooded that came off my pickup ( yes i had a wooden bed) it's 7.5x5.5 ft and there not a lot of room in my back yard, and my father doesn't want it any bigger maybe 8x6 at the most, we will build it 8ft high, the problem is i don't feel conferable to put a RT in such as small mew, i have always seen them in BIG mews, so I'm just asking if this size would work for a RT or just for a falcon?
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Post by twinkieman0382 on Mar 26, 2009 18:18:55 GMT -5
i want to get into falconry and on these forms there is a portable mew design its an octagon and and i think 8x8x10 or 8x8x8 feet i think im going to make that one and customize it a little.
YOu'd have to double-check your state regs, but the only legal issue is that the bird has to be able to fully extend its wings. I don't know if you're planning on freelofting or tethering, but tethered it would work fine...freelofting should be fine as well, but that is a little small
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... so I'm just asking if this size would work for a RT or just for a falcon?..
I would not go any smaller than 8x8 for tethering or freelofting a hawk or large falcon - even if the regs allowed for a smaller mews. What's your sponsor say? Do you have one yet?
Post by christoffking on Mar 29, 2009 11:59:11 GMT -5
no unfortunately i don't but i believe I'm ready for my test, and i got all my gear together, the problem is I'm getting my family over this coming weekend to help me build the mew, issue is that i can't make it 8x8 only 8x6, that the max i have, i live in a coummunity so our yard has limits sadly, but i can make it 8ft tall, and it under a tree, so hopefully that game and fish ok it, other falconers said it would be find, other say it must be bigger. see my confusion?
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Post by borderhawk on Mar 29, 2009 12:50:35 GMT -5
If I had no choice but to make my mews 8x6 I would put ALOT of barred windows in it. Make it airy and spaceous "feeling". In Tucson you'll probably want to do that anyway. I'd put solid walls on the west and north sides because that's the direction the crazy windstorm weather always seem to come from, a few windows on the south side for warmth in the winter but not enough to bake the bird in hot weather, and make the east side like one big window for warming up in the morning and releasing the heat when the hot sun is on the SW side. Lots of window opennings that reach all the way down to the floor should reduce bating should you have to tether the bird in there. Falconboy had a picture posted somewhere of his old mew that had a huge bay window all the way to the ground, perhaps you can find it or he can repost it..... I would say an 8x6 is the smallest minimum for any large hawk or falcon, but as long as you're flying and hunting it often so it can get out of there and get some excercise it should be o.k.
Here's the weathering side of my mews, it's 8x10, but if it were shrunk and all the wire replaced with barring it's about what I would imagine for a small urban mews.
Did you add more to it later - under the overhang? I see a perch in the gravel (where the tools are in the other pic).
Twelve inch nails with washers work great to secure carpeting to the ground so it doesn't lift in the wind or when the bird bates. Just what I do...
Not yet, that pic was taken just over a week ago and I got the inspection last monday. I will be screening in that area soon for security entrance/ extra weathering. Without it screened in I've been using that window in the divider wall to move her between weathering and mews and if I don't have a tidbit with me it's not that easy to get her out of the mews!
That sounds like a great idea! The winds usually come from the direction of the solid wall in the back so it's not usually a problem and it's a fairly heavy high quality stadium turf so her bating doesn't affect it all, but the dirtdevils we get here are like minature twisters and have actually lifted a shed clearing the house and dropping it into the front yard!
Post by christoffking on Mar 29, 2009 19:20:35 GMT -5
thanks for the pic, and the info on the window was gold, I'm trying to see what type of perches you have in your mew, i think i see a couple of shelf perches....
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Post by borderhawk on Mar 29, 2009 22:59:28 GMT -5
If you're going to have both a mews and enclosed weathering then the weathering makes a great security entrance for the mews but a window would only do you good if the bird returns to the fist reliably. I would suggest a full length walk through door instead. I just put in the window because I plan on screening in the rest of it soon to use as the security entrance, but also because some birds, after becoming accustomed to captivity can do well freelofted with the wire. So I can someday put perches in the weathering and the window opens it up so a bird can move between the two freely. I've seen it done before with Harris's and it seemed to work out well.
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Post by christoffking on Mar 29, 2009 23:15:28 GMT -5
well i going to have a double door, but I'm concern about the windows, i live in a urban area with urban wildlife ( fox's, raccoons, cats etc), so i don't know about having such big windows on it, i know I'm going to have 2 windows 1.5x2, but i see you your point, *notes taken*
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