post your chicken coop pictures here!

[PrimroseMom1]

Oooh I want a Mammoth donkey for livestock guardian...  Or a retired mule...  I cant do LGD

deb

I am obsessed with wanting a donkey.

 

[PrimroseMom1]

@perchie.girl
 
An egg drawer is such an ingenious idea to keep the nesting box size compact! The 16% slope we used was concluded from many egg rolling experiments. Others at BYC have successfully made their ramps at 4" vertical over 24" length, which seems to be the working slope. It all depends on the surface materials you choose. We shorten the ramps to 19" long so there is a 4" flat area for deceleration and the catchment net. For your egg draw design, maybe you can put a foam board at the end of the ramp as an impact cushion, then continue the egg rolling in a reverse slope away from the slot inside the drawer. This way, the deceleration can occur inside the drawer, the chicken can't reach the eggs along the slot, and the drawer can hold more eggs.

I think your setup is brilliant.

 

[vader]

Sand filtered rain water

 

[vader]

Horizontal nipples, no leaks, chickens learned in one minute

 

[vader]

 

[vader]

 

[vader]

No mess feeders

 

[vader]

 

[perchie.girl]

@perchie.girl
An egg drawer is such an ingenious idea to keep the nesting box size compact! The 16% slope we used was concluded from many egg rolling experiments. Others at BYC have successfully made their ramps at 4" vertical over 24" length, which seems to be the working slope. It all depends on the surface materials you choose. We shorten the ramps to 19" long so there is a 4" flat area for deceleration and the catchment net. For your egg draw design, maybe you can put a foam board at the end of the ramp as an impact cushion, then continue the egg rolling in a reverse slope away from the slot inside the drawer. This way, the deceleration can occur inside the drawer, the chicken can't reach the eggs along the slot, and the drawer can hold more eggs.

Thanks... I finally found someone to do my prototype. BTW I too work in SolidWorks when I am not sketching by hand. BTW I was reading 16 degrees not Percent.... My bad....

The other thing the drawer will do for me is to hide the eggs from Ground squirrels... My nemisis.... And eventually I can chill the drawer with a coil of garden hose underneath. We get temps in exess of 105 occasionally in the summer. I can circulate the water from a storage tank to act as a heat exchanger... But thats another sketch some other day.

First the nest box.

deb

 

[perchie.girl]

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Donkeys are special creatures and neeeed other donkey companions.... Or horse companions... So you cant do just one.... vbg

deb