Make me feel better- show me your eye-sore coopsadded pics-page 5

[KDbeads]

Nifty, the 'ghetto feeder' is priceless!!! but...... I'm getting ideas

 

[Nifty-Chicken]

I'd like to say "the frankenfeeder and ghetto coop were before I was associated with BYC!" but I don't think it would have made much difference.

If there is one thing I got from my dad (besides my striking good looks and amazing humility) it is the weakness of function over form... translation: "Who cares what it looks like if you it is cheap, quick, and easy and gets the job done!?"

 

[DuckLady]

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Stop that. My eyeballs need oiling now.

 

[insiderart]

Some of these coops aren't ugly at all!

 

[werecatrising]

Ladyhawke, sorry to hear about your stroke. It sounds as if you are doing well and enjoying your birds. Thanks for sharing your story.

 

[ivan3]

O.K., this is a shot from the American Memory Collection of the Library of Congress: http://memory.loc.gov/ammem/index.html

Just do a search for chicken coops and you might find a relative's contribution to the art. This is my favorite. It was taken by Russell Lee, near El Indio Texas in 1939. It is titled `Chicken Roosts' (predator proofing?). Looks like an Alexander Calder on acid and leaves the coyotes flummoxed (righteous).

Farm Security Administration - Office of War Information Photograph Collection (Library of Congress)

There is form, and there is function. That which possesses beautiful form is that which functions beautifully.

 

[Tala]

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Glad to see I'm not the only one using an old covered cat box for a nest box.

It's perfect size and prevented it from becoming landfill material!!

 

[2txmedics]

Ivan, wow...where did you find that picture?!!! I looks like the instead of my coop!!!! I love the natural look

here is a part view of the inside of mine...

I love to take pictures or wooden signs and put them on my coop, well thats my idea, so far only have 2...but this picture would be awesome with a wooden branch frame....

 

[onecent]

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Glad to see I'm not the only one using an old covered cat box for a nest box.

It's perfect size and prevented it from becoming landfill material!!

yes! they are perfect, i have 2 in there now

 

[Tala]

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yes! they are perfect, i have 2 in there now

Well, our other one is a 5gal icing bucket with half the lid cut off - my father in law can get em for free from the Wal-Mart bakery.