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

[cluckcluckluke]

Also, any dusting bowl, patch ideas?
I was thinking the lid of a big big?

 

[Bens-Hens]

Just scroll though and scan images, or use the gallery box on the right. Saves on reading info your not looking for and reduces time.

 

[cluckcluckluke]

Just scroll though and scan images, or use the gallery box on the right. Saves on reading info your not looking for and reduces time.

Good Idea, thanks!

 

[Josh207]

Regarding coop design, I built my coop about 18 inches up off the ground to keep it dry and to allow the chickens a place to get shade in the summer, before i built it i researched a lot about doors in the floor of the coop, i didn't find a whole lot of pics or info on it, i put a door in the floor of my coop, it shelters the inside of the coop from the elements and in the winter i can "bank" the sides of the coop with hay bales to essentially double the space of the coop to allow them room to move around in the long winters here in Maine. Just my 2 cents on this great thread!

 

[cluckcluckluke]

Regarding coop design, I built my coop about 18 inches up off the ground to keep it dry and to allow the chickens a place to get shade in the summer, before i built it i researched a lot about doors in the floor of the coop, i didn't find a whole lot of pics or info on it, i put a door in the floor of my coop, it shelters the inside of the coop from the elements and in the winter i can "bank" the sides of the coop with hay bales to essentially double the space of the coop to allow them room to move around in the long winters here in Maine. Just my 2 cents on this great thread!

Marvelous idea. Here in Aus our Winters are not all that cold, well compared to you guys. So I may just put some wood planks up ( instead of hay ) so they are out of the cold.

 

[Clayclay]

Nice touch!

 

[swga]

my super easy BSF composter setup. It's just an old jug from cat litter, with a hole punched to let excess water from the compost drain, tilted at an angle to let them self-harvest through the wire and into the coop.

 

[cluckcluckluke]

Look what I made

, so happy!

Well apart from my WHOLE coop and run, this is my first D.I.Y. Well actually I have done a bit of D.I.Y but this is my favorite..O.K shut up now and show them

.lol.

It's my undercover dusting station!


I used a huge bin lid and filled it with a mixture of ash, crushed coal and DE. Then framed the area with bricks to contain the mixture as they scratch through it. Plan on putting sand in the areas between the lid and the bricks.

I screwed a tin panel to my nesting shed to make it more covered than it already was. Then used star pickets to hold the other end up.

Behind shot.

 

[refamat]

Also, any dusting bowl, patch ideas?
I was thinking the lid of a big big?

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

 

[epluim]

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.