Property owners can benefit the same way with sometimes no more than one or two nest boxes.
Barn owl box.
Owners of vineyards orchards and farms have found that barn owls can significant reduce damage by crop eating rodents.
For any barn owl nestbox less than 700mm deep an exercise landing platform below the entrance hole is vital for the safety of young fledglings.
A typical barn owl nest box has a six inch entrance hole that is suitable for a barn owl but too small for a great horned owl and the hole should be approximately four inches above the floor of the box.
The barn owl trust a leading authority on barn owls recommends increasing their nest box dimensions by 50 for the american barn owl equating to a floor dimension of 30 x 24 5 ft2 and a minimum of 10 ft3 for a box that is 24 deep.
We sell and ship owl nest boxes bird houses and bat boxes anywhere in the world.
Grassland fallow fields hayfields open marshes savannah and cropland pasture are ideal habitat for barn owls.
Our owl boxes are superior quality easy to install and are maintenance free.
Abandoned or seldom used barns are the best location to install a nest box.
An indoor barn owl nestbox is not suitable for outdoor use and an outdoor nestbox is much better placed in a tree because trees usually afford more shelter and owlets can sometimes climb a tree to re enter the box.
The ideal size for barn owl boxes is 1m2 floor area x 1m depth but such big boxes are generally impractical.
A box on the inside will last as long as the building.
Our design is 11 ft3 with with nearly 6 ft2 of floor space.
Barn owls can easily be attracted to nest boxes barn owls have become very popular to attract for various reasons.
However mounting one on a pole or tree works as well.
A box on the outside will only last about 10 15 years.
No perch is necessary and adding one will only give footing to predators.