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

[Penny Hen]

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

There are a couple a brands of kitty liter that use square buckets.

 

[DaddyBird]

You could also use a plastic milk crate on it's side.

 

[Bens-Hens]

I made a six stack of crates, but I just felt they were not quite big enough for my full sized girls and their generous backside!



Before we got an egg in them I started on a bigger and more permanent box set that gave a bit more internal space to our cubby coop.

 

[aart]

I made a six stack of crates, but I just felt they were not quite big enough for my full sized girls and their generous backside!



Before we got an egg in them I started on a bigger and more permanent box set that gave a bit more internal space to our cubby coop.

THAT is beautiful!! Pic from farther back of the outside?

 

[Bens-Hens]

I don't have any of it finished, even though it is, but here are a couple as we were putting it back together (was salvaged from a house being demolished)

At the place we bought it from.


Had to modify a few things, new doors and lower it.











Once I decided to go away from the crates, I started on the external nest boxes.


That lead to the pics above as finished. Just made a wire hoop between the ramp and the run so they can go back and forth.

Salvaged cubby was $150 from the paper, most other materials were also salvaged from builders I approached or had kept from other projects. Just had to buy the MDF facia and the screws.

 

[perchie.girl]

I don't have any of it finished, even though it is, but here are a couple as we were putting it back together (was salvaged from a house being demolished)

At the place we bought it from.


Had to modify a few things, new doors and lower it.











Once I decided to go away from the crates, I started on the external nest boxes.


That lead to the pics above as finished. Just made a wire hoop between the ramp and the run so they can go back and forth.

Salvaged cubby was $150 from the paper, most other materials were also salvaged from builders I approached or had kept from other projects. Just had to buy the MDF facia and the screws.

What a great job of repurposing..... AND the nest box idea is stellar. I love the chicken access door. Can you close it for the night? Or do you have predators that will go in for take out.... I forget what kinds of predators you have in Australia.

deb

 

[Bens-Hens]

Our run is enclosed, so I leave it open, but I did make a door I can fit if I need to keep the girls in or out of the coop, never used it though.

 

[Bens-Hens]

Last pics of the cubby coop I promise!

And the newly roofed run

 

[LaurelC]

We are trying to do a less than hideous yet still muscovy-talon safe pond for our future ducks, so we sandwiched a craigslisted preformed pond liner with 1/4" plastic (to make it rigid) and drilled a hole and installed a shower drain on it. The sealant is still curing, but I should be able to get it in the ground next week!

 

[insanity]

Great idea...mmm I have 2 of those preforms just sitting in storage. I'll have to do some thinking on this.