File Cabinet Nest Boxes

[speckledhen]

What was an ancient 2 drawer file cabinet rusting in the crawlspace when we bought this house is now a spiffy new nest box in Suede's coop. From junk to useful. Perfect size openings, too. And it's one of the older ones, so the metal is stiffer than the lightweight newer ones.

 

[cockadoodlemom]

That is a nice nest!

Thanks for sharing!

 

[gumpsgirl]

Great idea! Your so smart!!!

 

[JoanneNC]

Great idea!!

 

[Omeletta]

Easy to clean, too! Thanks for sharing Speckled!

Tanya

 

[rooster-red]

Nice!

I love turning junk into something useful.

 

[Yogiman]

Cyn, that was an excellent idea to recyle them. But I gotta ask: Wonder what the big boy Suede thinks about all of this in his cage?

 

[texaschickmama]

Trash to Treasure, love that show. What a great and useful project.

 

[thechickenchick]

How super creative! I wish my brain worked like that!

 

[speckledhen]

Big Boy Suede will be miffed since he cant get his big carcass in these. I hope he doesn't try, either! He would always get in the floor nests and cluck to the girls, but they've been moved to the smaller nursery coop so I can use his 8x8 side for my big group of chicks and I needed to hang nests to increase the floor space. He and his girls started out in the nursery, so he's been in it before; still, he's not really thrilled. His pen is much smaller and the nursery is 4.5x7.5 rather than 8x8. It really made more sense to use the 8x8 section for my expanding laying flock with the five nests and extra roost space than for Suede and three girls (Velvet, Skye and Delilah).