DIY Thread - Let's see your "Inventions".

[Kassaundra]

a square bucket may be better - like the laundry soap buckets

Square may work better, but I don't think I would do a laundry container, I have asthma and those take my breath, so don't think I would put young chicks in w/ young respiratory systems.

 

[perchie.girl]

Quote: There are other products that use square buckets.... just have to search them out. I know some horse supplements come in them. and I also know not alot of people have horses... LOL.

I will keep my eye open for them.

deb

 

[DeerFangRanch]

There are other products that use square buckets.... just have to search them out. I know some horse supplements come in them. and I also know not alot of people have horses... LOL.

I will keep my eye open for them.

deb

We had a friend give us a give square kitty litter bucket.

 

[madicakes]

I just got some square icing buckets from the bakery at WalMart. Of course, it being WalMart, they charged me for them

That was the last straw for me with that company. Any other store bakery gives them to you.

 

[insanity]

Try your local diner. Where I work we get square 5gal buckets (pickles, mayo, so on) from our food supplier. We give away extras.

 

[madicakes]

Thanks for the suggestion!! I didn't even think of that.

 

[1stACT]

I had noticed that my peeps wanted a place where they could rest away from the blasé of the bright light from the red heat lamp bulb.

So I took an empty wine box, took the plastic bag out of it, cut out and removed the handle panel and enlarged the spout opening (making a little side door). Poof a simple chick hang out and roosting area. You'll need to scratch up the one side (top) so when your peeps jump up on it they have a firm footing. See my avatar...

 

[CanuckBock]

ITs a spot for chicks to Cuddle.... The thing is we are experimenters trying new things and ideas .... So most likely you wont see stuff like it anywhere.

deb

Looks like it could get top heavy...so here's an upgrade.

>")3 ~~ Rick Higgins' Pail Nest Invention ~~ >")3

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My Hero Rick uses one by boards we get the coloured roofing metal strapped with...and two left over short 2x4's per pail nest. Fasteners are long drywall screws (eight per nest, 4 in front, two thru the pail into the sides of the 2x4's) with a washer that fits just over the head and gives a larger holding area. He made one wooden template as the front (with the jigsaw) out of the one by board and then we just keep one extra around as a jig.

The kids in our exhibition poultry club had this as a project day and all they had to bring was a well washed out oil pail with the handle removed (don't want chooks goofing around and getting hurt on a handle that has no real function on the nests). We provided the one by front and two 2x4 shorts and drywall screws with washers.

Fabulous project for kids and easy to complete in a single session/meeting. Then they all go home and start cutting up good full length 2x4's, stealing used oilpails from town...bwa ha ha...or worse, Mom//Dad's water buckets...washing pails in the bathtub and leaving a slick...yeh...and we want youth involved in the hobby, eh?

​

The interior of the pail is dark and the pail and wood is pretty cheap (cheep cheep?)...so really, a very economical project. If the nest ever got so soiled you wanted to huck it, well you are not throwing away big donairos, eh?

​

Both our bantam and standard chickens all use them. If you are setting up a broody pen, you can make some of the nests smaller for bantams by first cutting off the top of the pail (using a jig saw and be careful you don't cut yerself...at least I know I would...LOL).

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Or you can leave the pail nests full length for standard chickens--this is a breeding trio for self-contained pedigreed matings.

This is one of the standard Buff Chanteclers and she fits inside a nest quite fine.

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About the only negative...we use oat straw as bedding and often I will find mice nesting UNDER the pail nests.

Ah but then having the savage heritage free ranger chickens comes in handy dandy. They learn quick so when I lift nests, it's a free for all with the arrival of the speedy meat hunting pseudo raptors appearing as if from no where's... Rick swears off eggs every time one of his beloved chickens gulps up homegrown premium grain/mash fresh water fed rodent protein--all he sees is a mouse whole, floating spread eagle trapped inside an egg. Oh blah...now I've made myself sickened!

You knew I was gonna toy with your imaginations...now didn't cha??? Price to be paid for every "freebee" invention.

Hope this helps.

Doggone & Chicken UP!

Tara Lee Higgins
Higgins Rat Ranch Conservation Farm, Alberta, Canada

 

[LindaB220]

Looks like it could get top heavy...so here's an upgrade.

>")3 ~~ Rick Higgins' Pail Nest Invention ~~ >")3

​

My Hero Rick uses one by boards we get the coloured roofing metal strapped with...and two left over short 2x4's per pail nest. Fasteners are long drywall screws (eight per nest, 4 in front, two thru the pail into the sides of the 2x4's) with a washer that fits just over the head and gives a larger holding area. He made one wooden template as the front (with the jigsaw) out of the one by board and then we just keep one extra around as a jig.

The kids in our exhibition poultry club had this as a project day and all they had to bring was a well washed out oil pail with the handle removed (don't want chooks goofing around and getting hurt on a handle that has no real function on the nests). We provided the one by front and two 2x4 shorts and drywall screws with washers.

Fabulous project for kids and easy to complete in a single session/meeting. Then they all go home and start cutting up good full length 2x4's, stealing used oilpails from town...bwa ha ha...or worse, Mom//Dad's water buckets...washing pails in the bathtub and leaving a slick...yeh...and we want youth involved in the hobby, eh?

​

The interior of the pail is dark and the pail and wood is pretty cheap (cheep cheep?)...so really, a very economical project. If the nest ever got so soiled you wanted to huck it, well you are not throwing away big donairos, eh?

​

Both our bantam and standard chickens all use them. If you are setting up a broody pen, you can make some of the nests smaller for bantams by first cutting off the top of the pail (using a jig saw and be careful you don't cut yerself...at least I know I would...LOL).

​

Or you can leave the pail nests full length for standard chickens--this is a breeding trio for self-contained pedigreed matings.

This is one of the standard Buff Chanteclers and she fits inside a nest quite fine.

​

About the only negative...we use oat straw as bedding and often I will find mice nesting UNDER the pail nests.

Ah but then having the savage heritage free ranger chickens comes in handy dandy. They learn quick so when I lift nests, it's a free for all with the arrival of the speedy meat hunting pseudo raptors appearing as if from no where's... Rick swears off eggs every time one of his beloved chickens gulps up homegrown premium grain/mash fresh water fed rodent protein--all he sees is a mouse whole, floating spread eagle trapped inside an egg. Oh blah...now I've made myself sickened!

You knew I was gonna toy with your imaginations...now didn't cha??? Price to be paid for every "freebee" invention.

Hope this helps.

Doggone & Chicken UP!

Tara Lee Higgins
Higgins Rat Ranch Conservation Farm, Alberta, Canada

I really, really love this post. Funny and informative. Thanks Tara

Linda from NW Louisiana

 

[PrimroseMom1]

Looks like it could get top heavy...so here's an upgrade.

​

>")3 ~~ Rick Higgins' Pail Nest Invention ~~ >")3​

My Hero Rick uses one by boards we get the coloured roofing metal strapped with...and two left over short 2x4's per pail nest. Fasteners are long drywall screws (eight per nest, 4 in front, two thru the pail into the sides of the 2x4's) with a washer that fits just over the head and gives a larger holding area. He made one wooden template as the front (with the jigsaw) out of the one by board and then we just keep one extra around as a jig.

:cd​

The kids in our exhibition poultry club had this as a project day and all they had to bring was a well washed out oil pail with the handle removed (don't want chooks goofing around and getting hurt on a handle that has no real function on the nests). We provided the one by front and two 2x4 shorts and drywall screws with washers. Fabulous project for kids and easy to complete in a single session/meeting. Then they all go home and start cutting up good full length 2x4's, stealing used oilpails from town...bwa ha ha...or worse, Mom//Dad's water buckets...washing pails in the bathtub and leaving a slick...yeh...and we want youth involved in the hobby, eh?

​

The interior of the pail is dark and the pail and wood is pretty cheap (cheep cheep?)...so really, a very economical project. If the nest ever got so soiled you wanted to huck it, well you are not throwing away big donairos, eh?

​

​

Both our bantam and standard chickens all use them. If you are setting up a broody pen, you can make some of the nests smaller for bantams by first cutting off the top of the pail (using a jig saw and be careful you don't cut yerself...at least I know I would...LOL).

​

Or you can leave the pail nests full length for standard chickens--this is a breeding trio for self-contained pedigreed matings.

​

​

This is one of the standard Buff Chanteclers and she fits inside a nest quite fine.​

:yiipchick​

About the only negative...we use oat straw as bedding and often I will find mice nesting UNDER the pail nests. Ah but then having the savage heritage free ranger chickens comes in handy dandy. They learn quick so when I lift nests, it's a free for all with the arrival of the speedy meat hunting pseudo raptors appearing as if from no where's... Rick swears off eggs every time one of his beloved chickens gulps up homegrown premium grain/mash fresh water fed rodent protein--all he sees is a mouse whole, floating spread eagle trapped inside an egg. Oh blah...now I've made myself sickened! You knew I was gonna toy with your imaginations...now didn't cha??? Price to be paid for every "freebee" invention. Hope this helps. Doggone & Chicken UP! Tara Lee Higgins Higgins Rat Ranch Conservation Farm, Alberta, Canada

Great post. Really enjoyed it. I ovate you!!