My free nesting boxes!

[furbabymum]

Just in time for use! Everything is 100% recycled. Buy a tree or bush and keep the pot it came in. Thankfully my parents are tree addicts so I had a ton of pots and sizes to choose from. I used old fencing to keep the hay in and supply a perch. Everything else was found lying about. Super easy construction and I just love them!!!! (note: those are golf balls and not eggs)



The flock. Chickens in the front and ducks in the back. Ducks will be moving soon. They didn't appreciate the hammering going on inside the coop.

 

[DOnSoCalOC]

Thanks for sharing!!! Great ideas!

 

[buttercup hill]

What a nifty and thrifty idea! You even have ventilation in the back (bottom) of the pots already there.I love to see things re-purposed. Did you permanently secure them to a base,or can you pull them out and dump them for easy cleaning?

 

[furbabymum]

What a nifty and thrifty idea! You even have ventilation in the back (bottom) of the pots already there.I love to see things re-purposed. Did you permanently secure them to a base,or can you pull them out and dump them for easy cleaning?

All of the pots are nailed onto 2 primary boards. The primary boards, however, are not nailed on to the base. They're just resting on the base boards. So I can take all of the nesting boxes as one unit to go get cleaned. It weighs next to nothing so it's really easy.

 

[buttercup hill]

Wow, I'm gonna be grumbling when I clean my eight all-together plywood nest boxes thinking of your idea. Way to go!!!

 

[Gargoyle]

on the free side, check out to see if there is a local Freecycle group in your area.

Freecycle is great- it networks people in local areas, so instead of dumping things you don't want in the garbage/landfill, or keeping them around cluttering your place, you post them and others who can use them reply. We've gotten all sorts of things- an 8' high trellis with seating, 20' rolls of welded wire fencing, 50 s.f. of good sod (the chickens went through that in a few days!), lumber, work boots; we just gave away a good sofa bed that we can't use and a spare computer monitor.

I see listings of people giving away garden tools, childrens clothing, egg cartons, fabric samples, kitchen appliances, and enough wood, windows, screening, brick and block to build a coop.

It's all volunteer, all free, and keeps stuff out of the landfills. Note that, at least in my area, you have to respond quickly- good stuff goes very fast. When we posted the sofa bed we got five replies in the first 2 hours.