I decided if this addiction is going to cause me to have to hatch duing the winter I'd need something a bit more protected than our large outdoor brooder. I noticed a couple of days ago that there was a cheap dining table in the shed we had bought for a dollar or two at the auction a year ago to use during a family cook-out. It's about 3' wide and almost 4' long, metal legs and wood top. So the recycling king decided to put it to use.
Here's what I came up with
It is built on top of the table useing it as a floor / base. Framed with 1 x 2 and 2 x 2 lumber, luan plywood walls and back, chicken wire front and upper sides. The top is made of a piece of scrap fiberglass I had laying around, used hinges and latch. The solid floor allows me to use shavings and the semi-solid sides and solid top and back gives more protection from the wind. The heat light still needs to be instaled inside, but works ok mounted outside pointed in. For now we've got it sitting in an unused stall that I have been storing spare lumber and such in. It would have to be inside the barn during the winter due to the open front, but can be sit outside and used as a hospital cage during the summer if needed.
Just another crazy project from the wilds of Mississippi.
Here's what I came up with
It is built on top of the table useing it as a floor / base. Framed with 1 x 2 and 2 x 2 lumber, luan plywood walls and back, chicken wire front and upper sides. The top is made of a piece of scrap fiberglass I had laying around, used hinges and latch. The solid floor allows me to use shavings and the semi-solid sides and solid top and back gives more protection from the wind. The heat light still needs to be instaled inside, but works ok mounted outside pointed in. For now we've got it sitting in an unused stall that I have been storing spare lumber and such in. It would have to be inside the barn during the winter due to the open front, but can be sit outside and used as a hospital cage during the summer if needed.
Just another crazy project from the wilds of Mississippi.
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