I've come up with a couple of redneck "inventions" the last few days and thought I'd share, for funsies if nothing else lol.
First, all my chick waterers were currently occupied and I needed a waterer in a hurry for my new batch of bantams, so I whipped one up with a water bottle and dish. The dish is actually a lid from a horse treat jug, but a peanut butter jar lid or something like that, a little tall, would work just as well. I initially tried using various adhesives to keep the bottle on the dish, but none stuck and I prefer it unattached now for refilling anywho. I cut a small, maybe cm square, hole on the side of the water bottle as close to the bottom as possible, to keep it below the top of the dish. Plug the hole with a finger, fill the bottle and tighten the lid, set in the dish and voila, redneck waterer.
I don't have a proper pic of it, but you can see it in this shot, pardon the shavings kicked in the water..
Also, today I got a batch of hatching eggs in the mail. I went to find a carton to rest them in, air cell up, but realized we had no cartons left! So DH and I came up on the spot with this idea to cut off the tops of pop bottles, which we have an excess of, and place them upside down in cookie trays (we don't eat as much junk foods as it sounds I swear LOL). We did this and went to town, where I picked up some cartons from TSC. When we got home, I tried to switch the eggs over to the cartons, and these tiny Serama eggs flopped around all over the place. My redneck pop top "invention" works 100% better at holding these little babies still and upright than an egg carton! This is if you have somewhere to put the eggs where they won't get jostled around. The pop "cups" do fall over a heck of a lot easier than a carton would. But it's working perfectly for the 12-24 hr "resting" period before I pop the eggs in the incubator!
First, all my chick waterers were currently occupied and I needed a waterer in a hurry for my new batch of bantams, so I whipped one up with a water bottle and dish. The dish is actually a lid from a horse treat jug, but a peanut butter jar lid or something like that, a little tall, would work just as well. I initially tried using various adhesives to keep the bottle on the dish, but none stuck and I prefer it unattached now for refilling anywho. I cut a small, maybe cm square, hole on the side of the water bottle as close to the bottom as possible, to keep it below the top of the dish. Plug the hole with a finger, fill the bottle and tighten the lid, set in the dish and voila, redneck waterer.
I don't have a proper pic of it, but you can see it in this shot, pardon the shavings kicked in the water..
Also, today I got a batch of hatching eggs in the mail. I went to find a carton to rest them in, air cell up, but realized we had no cartons left! So DH and I came up on the spot with this idea to cut off the tops of pop bottles, which we have an excess of, and place them upside down in cookie trays (we don't eat as much junk foods as it sounds I swear LOL). We did this and went to town, where I picked up some cartons from TSC. When we got home, I tried to switch the eggs over to the cartons, and these tiny Serama eggs flopped around all over the place. My redneck pop top "invention" works 100% better at holding these little babies still and upright than an egg carton! This is if you have somewhere to put the eggs where they won't get jostled around. The pop "cups" do fall over a heck of a lot easier than a carton would. But it's working perfectly for the 12-24 hr "resting" period before I pop the eggs in the incubator!
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