Hawk closets

[Weasel]

This is the style I use for transporting my bird. It is thin, tall and deep instead of the large square boxes typically used.

[Strider]

First no pic and second nothin beats a card board box for a short trip.

[Weasel]

A cardboard box is not the way to transport a BOP. You need a safe and sturdy box with a sutible perch off of the graound so the tail does not touch the ground. The idea behind a giant hood is to protect the bird, not to just contain it.

[Strider]

I really need my American book to come. Brits are good but they also told me to use chicken wire in a mew which i know is wrong

[buteoflyer]

Cardboard is not cleanable. It's a use once and throw away. I use Coreplast board. You can get 4x8 sheets from sign companies. The white is thicker, but I like the black so it's nice and dark inside. I have a design that when it's cut you use the entire 4' side with only a little waste on the 8'side. It's cut and scored then folded into a box. All still intack. Use contact cement to glue it all together. It weighs next to nothing. I've used them for both a large fRT and for fHH for 5 years now and they are still going great. If you want the drawinging, PM me.

[Tiercel78]

Weasel, I belive mine is the same style that you have.
I think we need to get some pictures up of them. Work great for traveling cause the bird can brace himself on the side of the box with out damage to primarys. Also, keeps the bird from turning around in the hood. I don't know about yours but the perch in mine is more forward to keep the tail from getting mutes on it.

[Weasel]

OK, Here is a picture of a hawk closet

[Weasel]

Gary Brewer made this one for me. It is like you said Tiercel, the perch is set forward to avoid the tail from contacting anything.

[Tiercel78]

I'll get you so pictures of mine

[Weasel]

Here is a great link to a Giant hood design.
www.georgiafalconryassociation.com/gianthood.pdf

[Strider]

Posted by: buteoflyer Posted on: Feb 16th, 2005, 7:13pm
Cardboard is not cleanable. It's a use once and throw away. I use Coreplast board. You can get 4x8 sheets from sign companies. The white is thicker, but I like the black so it's nice and dark inside. I have a design that when it's cut you use the entire 4' side with only a little waste on the 8'side. It's cut and scored then folded into a box. All still intack. Use contact cement to glue it all together. It weighs next to nothing. I've used them for both a large fRT and for fHH for 5 years now and they are still going great. If you want the drawinging, PM me.



thats the point use it once then throw it away but put a piece of carpet or something on the bottom for the feet.

[Weasel]

Any self respecting falconer would NOT use a cardboard box as a carrier. It will destroy the feathers and it is NOT safe for the bird to be in. If you where to tell your sponsor that you planned to use cardboards, he/she would laugh you out of the room. A proper Giant hood with a perch is required. ;D

[Strider]

Darn there goes another way to save a few bucks. Oh well for the hawks safty I will make a proper box

[Austin]

Before you make a box and spend a lot of time doing so, check around some of the larger pet stores in some of the bigger cities also at places like Wal Mart, and even junk stores. Find one of those X-large pet carriers make sure you wash it out when you get home. Now go out on the woods and cut a strait tree limb three inches in diamiter by 36 inches long, with hard ruff bark on it. When you get home measure in the center half way up from the bottom of the carrier the width and cut the limb to that width by cutting the ends off square and flat, now fit it in the carrier and make sure it is snug. Mark the outside of the carrier on both sides and drill a small hole which will be even on both side. now drill a hole in the center of the limb about one and a half incehs deep. Take a two and half inch wood screw with a large flat washer and insurt it from the outside of the carrier into the center of the limb on both sides, make sure the washer is in between the screw and the side of the carrier. Do not over tighten the screw just enough so the limb inside does not turn. Make sure the limb, or perch is high enough so the birds tail will not sit in her mutes when transporting. Another pratice which I do is always make sure the bird is in a foward position in the vehicle, it will make no difference if she turns around or not while being transported. Hope I'm not over bearing.

[Strider]

I like to make stuff out of wood. Plus we got a ton of scrap wood that cant be uses one the mew or anything so the whole thing will be free for me now that I think about it.