Chicken-vention... what inventions have you come up with? (Pic heavy)

[thomaschickens]

ONSTAD1-We've had Geico for nearly 13 years (back when Geico was for Government employees only). We LOVE them. We've only had to make a couple claims over the years (one on a car and one for a motorcycle). They were really great imo. Congrats on your toaster

Now for a funny...When my chicks became older and I realized that I had a few too many roosters, my mom said, "oh well you could separate them, feed them different colored foods and see if it changes the color of their eggs" I just stared at her until she replayed her words in her head and waited for the lightbulb to go off...it didn't take long and she proceeded to literally fall out of the chair laughing at what she had just said

 

[UrbanBYC]

OK. going to hijack the thread I started for a sec

... Now that I own a new toaster (KIA soul), I've been shopping around for insurance (presently with Progressive). Geico is the least expensive by a long shot...like 33% cheaper. Anyone have any experience with them on either side of a claim? They are so much lower in price than the competition I wonder if their claim service / customer service suffers as a result.

thanks

Mo

Pemco see if you get a good quote usually they arent on comparison charts because they are cheaper Nice toaster, I think theres one in our neighborhood

And also make sure they give you a year long quote, not for 6 months. I dont know if this still happens, I know its happened before, where the added up price of the 6 months is more expensive, but just sounds cheaper.

 

[Hummingbird Hollow]

Saw this photo and discovered I'm not the only one to turn an old car into a coop...although this one doesn't run:




By the way...why do chicken coops only have two doors?

Because if they had four they would be chicken SEDANS!

 

[armorfirelady]

I finally finished my PVC pipe waterer for the wooden run & new feeder (since the one hen thought she was suppose to stand in the dog dish)


I hope next year when we get more rain that the rain barrel behind the pvc waterer will be the source of filling up the pipe. There are 4 chicken nipples on the lower piece. the ends screw of both ends for easy cleaning of needed. I put ACV in the water. I filled this up last week and its still 3/4 full. (the FF has decreased their water consumption)


I had some spare pieces of plastic gutter in the rafters. I cut it in half, the few extra pieces i cut to fit the ends, few holes drilled in with zip ties to secure it to ends & a few screws to attach it to the wooden run. No more hens in the feeder. They get a scoop and a half of FF in the am & evening.

 

[sezjasper]

As to where to get that material, you could probably get it from a sign store...it is an election year, so you could poke your head into your county Republican or Democratic headquarters and see which local candidate is using that kind of sign in their campaign and see if you can take a few for your yard (hopefully this is a candidate you like, so you can actually display the sign before your let your chickens poop on it) or you could do what I did, which is actually run for office and then when you lose, let your chickens poop on your political aspirations.

I don't know how I missed this thread back in July, but it's fantastic, so many great ideas! Hummingbird, I laughed till it hurt when I read that bit quoted above...now I know how to survive the tv campaign ads between now and November...just picture those yapping fools covered in chicken poo. Now when they say it's a mudslinging campaign I'll be thinking hmmm not exactly...

 

[colburg]

anyone knows where to buy the "nipples" used in the waterer? what is it really called?

Got mine from http://www.avianaquamiser.com/diywaterers/

I read too many bad reveiws on the cheap ones coming off of ebay out of China. So I paid the extra to go with these.

I've got 4 in use with 50 two week olds and they're doing fine with them. No leaks from my nipples(thank goodness since I'm not pregnant, nursing, or a woman). Maybe I should rephase that to "None of the 4 chicken water nipples are leaking."

Anyways, I like them and plan on using them with PVC and a 30 gal drum.

 

[Hummingbird Hollow]

Thought it was time to bump this one up the ladder in case we've had some new members or new chicken-ventors who haven't had a chance to share their cleverness with us.

 

[Stumpy]

I almost posted this in the recycling thread because it's not exactly an invention, but here goes. I started with two old kitchen drawers:




After sawing, stapling, gluing, adding some thin plywood, priming, and painting





I ended up with this:





From above:

 

[Hummingbird Hollow]

How clever (and how finely crafted). You can get old drawers from the ReStore for something like $0.50 last I checked. I used a few to make egg boxes, but they didn't look as snazzy as what you've posted!

 

[Stumpy]

Well, thank you, HH. I spent an unreasonable amount of time on it.