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

[aart]

This is our little pvc chicken tractor. I built it to fit right over my raised gardens so that the chickens can do the weeding and tilling before I plant! Later, I'll put it over the compost pile so they can stir that up as well.

Nice ...how do you get the chickens in there. I would assume since they are fenced in that you have to get them from the coop or run and put them in this pen?

 

[cluckcluckluke]

You just gave me an idea...I often think it's such a waste for the diatomaceous earth/clay mix I have to just get mixed with the soil here. I used 1 gal milk jugs for a dust bath for the quail I had, but had no good ideas for the chickens and turkeys til now! I think I can set up a 55 gal drum just like my nesting drum for the turkeys and use it for a dust bath. It stays fairly dry for the brooding hen so I think it would work as a dust bath also! Thanks!

Mark

Glad I could help!

Looks like you have got it all sorted now!

Good luck.

 

[epluim]

Nice ...how do you get the chickens in there. I would assume since they are fenced in that you have to get them from the coop or run and put them in this pen?

That is a little bit of a downside, since I have to lift the corner and shove them in. I have 2 chickens who will let me do this, though, so it works out okay. Getting them back out is actually a bigger problem!

 

[Scott H]

I put together this waterer with an old kitty litter bucket we had laying around....


I will put it on something a little more attractive when we can find something.

Just screws on and off, no sealant necessary.





You can find one at Flemming Outdoors.

 

[whiskeytripping]

I made a waterer out of a Home Depot bucket and a low profile toilet ballcock.

[/IMG] you can cut a 3x3 square hole about a half inch above the water level line. They CANNOT poop in it

 

[Scott H]

So it stays full automatically? What about freezing temps?

 

[whiskeytripping]

I can't use it when it's freezing, so I can ONLY use it about 350 days of the year. It don't stay cold very long at all here. Now you definitely can use a aquarium heater, AND wrap your hose or pipes if you need to.

 

[DavidEllis]

Coop trap door -remote control

Brilliant - I will be doing something like this for sure! Thank you for sharing.

 

[AdirondackChick]

I would love to see pics of your watering system.

 

[saellis]

I only have 6 chickens but the chick feeder wasn't keeping up with their appetite so I made a hanging feeder out of a pie plate and a coffee can. The pan is bolted to the can and there are four holes cut into the sides of the can just a little lower than the height of the pan. I saw a five gallon bucket version of this but needed something smaller. I'll probably need to expand the capacity of this feeder by the time I empty another coffee can so I'll probably cut the bottom off of it and duct tape it to the top of the existing feeder.