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Forsham Duck and Dove Cotes

Duck Cotes:
The design of these duck nesting boxes are derived from our range of dovecotes. By changing the doors and ramp we were able to transfer the aesthetics of the cotes to the pond.
The alterations undergone do NOT deter the birds, they seem to find the convenience of a personal gang plank into the water very desirable. Access to the square duck cote is via a hinged roof and the larger Hexagonal and Octagonal access is through doors in the back. All are supplied with ramps and pressure treated posts.

Duck Canopy:
Is the duck worlds equivalent of a tit box. The concept being you simply place the Canopy on the bank or ideally an island. The water fowl are then able to use the canopt when they are ready to nest.
If you do not have an idland then we are able to supply a float that can be teathbered so as to keep it in central water, but you are able to pull it in for cleaning. The canopies have a fully removable roof and integral walls for maximum of six nests.
The small canopy is ideal for small waterfowl up to Mallards, the larger is suited best to larger birds.

Dove Cotes:
"Quiet, genlte doves that just coo, look pretty, and do very little else? Don't you believe it. A cote full of birds has as much drama going on as the best dramatic production"
The Rochester
The Dove Cote stocked at Poplar Poultry is known as The Rochester, named after where it was first produced. It is essentially a six sided cote with two floors and 3 bays, housing 6 pairs of birds.

The Smarden:
The smarden is the bungalow vcersion of our Rochester dovecote. It has the same roof and six sided body but shorter walls. The Smarden has a single floor of three bays housing three pairs of birds.

The Lamberhurst:
This is the first cote made and kept. It stood originally in our own garden, and was simply for our own pleasure, but as people saw it the requests started for us to build them one. The Lamberhurst is an eight sided cote, having three floors with four bays on each level, so housing twelve pairs of birds.

The Tenterden:
This has got to be the biggest dovecoat available as a standard anywhere. Not the cote for a suburban garden, but in a park or open farm, the Tenterden is in a league of its own. We call the cote the Tenterden because it has 10 sides, and tenterden being the local town it seemed fitting. The tenterden has four floors of five bays, so housing twenty pairs of birds.

The Cranbrook:
Having discovered the potential, of splitting the cotes down the middle, the Rochester was an obvious candidate, hence the Cranbrook - a half Rochester with two floos housing for three pairs of birds.

The Mallard:
Forsham has seen a growing interest in things 'natural' and the idea of housing wild birds in the garden and wild ducks on the pond is becoming a 'must have'. The Mallard incorporates the aesthetics of the Duck Cotes, with the 'floatability' of the duck canopy. Floating duck housing has the advantage over 'bank fixed' nests in that it keeps the nest mid water, deterring the fox. And for those with pond liners it enables them to provide nesting without fear of piercing that precious liner with a support post. The Forsham Mallard provides two nesting bays and has a 'natty' cleaning method in that the float has a 'fixing free' location for the house, to clean the nest you simply lift the entire house away from the float, leaving the old nests fully exposed.The Mallard comes complete with a float.

Forsham Duck and Dove Cotes

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