List Your Top 3 Best Investments.....And Top Worst....

[silkiechicken]

1) Education: This is how I think. Comes in very handy with chicken problems involving predators, housing, building things, and selling things.
2) A have a heart trap!
3) Rubber winter water dish for frozen ice cube popping on cold mornings for fresh water!
4) Chicken water via large rabbit bottle! No brooder mess!

1) Parts for an incubator that never got put in? Nothing bad really.

 

[TxChiknRanchers]

Ma wrote:
Um.........yes, I kinda did mean for your chickens:/......I should have been more specific.....so sorry. Best and worst chicken investments. We'll start another thread for the life investments, that is a great topic!

Thanks, Ma

Sorry I misunderstood.
randy​

 

[firechicken]

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[sunnychooks]

The best investment I made was a steel shed that I bought on eBay for $500 to convert into a coop.

DH and I thought that it would be predator-proof and if we punched a few holes in it for a door and some windows, put in a roost and some nesting boxes, we'd be all set!!!

The worst investment I made was a steel shed that I bought on eBay for $500 to convert into a coop.

Nowadays we refer to the coop as "the Taj". It's certainly at least as nice as our house and if we ever want to get rid of chickens we can easily convert it into a guest house. We put it on a platform that has chicken wire between two layers of wood (no predators will dig in there!) The floor is linoleum with wood chips on top. The windows now can be open or closed, there is ventilation in the front and back on top, and there are three doors that can be opened one at a time to give access to three separate chicken yards (large, covered with netting and can all be opened together by internal connecting doors). The back portion was sectioned off into a "storage area" where we have bins for food, there is a door that opens from the storage area to the nesting boxes so that I can collect eggs without going into the coop. The entire thing is reinforced with wooden beams and is insulated. We have a solar light inside the coop and the roosts are above a roosting pit which is covered by 1 X 2 inch wire that can be removed for easy cleaning. Oh... and we also have the portable "chick palace" (It comes apart in 3 peices) for the youngsters when they first get out of the brooder which is put into one of the chicken yards. We stopped keeping track of how much $$$ we were spending because it was just too darn depressing.

So much for our great idea of poking some holes in a shed.... (sigh...)