Affordable Fun Finds

[Strong Bad]

The babies are 10 days old today and the top of the box is fenced in. Flying out of the box is not allowed And if the weather is nice, I will start to take them out on field trips next Saturday. I'd like to give them one more week.

So far, I have really been enjoying the process.

 

[rosemarythyme]

Free is my favorite form of affordable. My plastic dust bath was pulled off the neighbor's curb, feeding cubbies were discarded behind the house by previous owner, my old nest box was a modified dog house (also left behind by previous owner). Run roosts are tree branches.

 

[Insnesnakos]

I go to the store to get new nest boxes for the birds (they have to be made with thicker cardboard) Their current nest box has chicken tenders on it They don't seem to mind

 

[Strong Bad]

I go to the store to get new nest boxes for the birds (they have to be made with thicker cardboard) Their current nest box has chicken tenders on it They don't seem to mind

Their current nesting box has chicken tenders on it!!! Hopefully, it's DINO-NUGGETS!

 

[Insnesnakos]

Their current nesting box has chicken tenders on it!!! Hopefully, it's DINO-NUGGETS!

It's just plain lightly breaded tenders
They did have a dino one though

 

[jlwquilter]

I pick up large dog crates that people throw away and use as nest boxes, broody hen with eggs and then with the chicks as their home as well as chicken carriers.
Someone threw away what I guess was a rabbit or Guinea pig enclosure on legs. Screened in (needed some screen replacement) with a hinged screened lid! Awesome brooder for these last batches of chicks. Good sized too. Feel extraordinarily lucky to have snagged that!

 

[Rise722]

I made an inexpensive collar for my cats so when the birds are trying to hatch their eggs, so they are not pounced on and eaten/injured. Anyone can make one of these - just put some colorful zip ties around the regular collar (making sure it is a quick release) and it throws off the cat's pounce-ability. They can still eat/drink/get up a tree....it goes through a kitty door easily. But it cuts WAY down on the cat's naughty behavior when it comes to the birds.

 

[JacinLarkwell]

I get the plastic paper baskets to use as nest boxes for broody birds

 

[Becstasy94]

Thank you for the suggestion on the boxes! I got two and two of the little pallets. I’m excited to see what they do with them. I also scored a T-Rex shaped mirror and idk if they will like it, but it makes me smile

 

[Teresa D]

I don't have a membership at Costco, but a person I know does, so I wonder if they would be able to pick up some boxes for me. I hope they will be as generous and helpful as that guy that you ran into was!

I got mine from a grocery store. Watermelon box just ask the produce department when you can pick one up.