Heavy Duty Hexagonal Post Mounted Dovecote for 6 pairs of Doves

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Last but not least we have those with a lazy gene who make absolutely no effort to build a nest and just lay their eggs on the compartment floor, where they can roll out until they build a nest of poo.

Manufactured from quality timber, these dovecotes will make a beautiful feature in your garden and provide a home for your doves.But it is a natural product subject to variations such as shrinkage when it is hot and dry, and swelling or expansion when it is persistently humid and wet. These nests tend to stay dry and the doves can raise several chicks in the compartment before it needs cleaning out, in fact the main reason to clean it out is because the nest starts to get so high that the doves no longer have room to sit on it. RoadRunners Dovecote' is essentially a wall mounted dovecote in a 'Swiss Chalet Style' design which has received some modifications to make it suitable for post mounting.

My use of removable replaceable floors came about when I made a list of things that annoyed me about standard designed dovecotes. A note about wooden houses:- Timber has character and charm and that is why we like working with it. If you have a post mounted dovecote with pop-holes facing in all directions then this fact becomes less important as some pop-holes will get a plentiful amount and others will get little or none.They get their name from the fact that the occupants use that small doorway to 'pop in' and 'pop out' of their habitation. Apart from having a massive roof overhang there is probably not a lot we can do to protect the entrance. This means you won't have to lift heavy weights in and out of your car and you certainly won't have to struggle with self assembly flat pack instructions! Our worst predators (on eggs and young chicks), are magpies, who are sneaky, devious, ruthless and cowardly.