RE-Purposing !!!

[Quack House]

I would LOVE to see what people re-purposed to make nest boxes or coups or playgrounds for their chooks!!!

 

[Odelia]

I personally find myself going with the tried and true cardboard box. Need a nesting box now...card board box. Need a brooder...cardboard box. They have out grown brooder...new (clean) larger cardboard box. The best part is the price...FREE.

 

[Quack House]

I was looking at my horse feeding station with raised eyebrows today ... it's a vanity thing ... with a counter top. Two holes in the front doors would make a really neat nesting station.

But ... then where would I mix my horse food?

Hmmmmm ....

We have a LOt of wood palates .... Anyone done something with those?

 

[jetdog]

New coop with a window from a neighbors barn being torn down, damaged shingles from a local lumber yard $11 just used the good ones, habitat for humanity restore for all the paint inside and out, slightly damaged lumber from home depot at 70 percent off, the whole thing came in at $250.

 

[Quack House]

New coop with a window from a neighbors barn being torn down, damaged shingles from a local lumber yard $11 just used the good ones, habitat for humanity restore for all the paint inside and out, slightly damaged lumber from home depot at 70 percent off, the whole thing came in at $250.

AWESOME!

 

[ChirpyChicks1]

I haven't done anything too ingenious, but saving money is the main point. Used a tall/skinny shelving unit from the garage cut in half and laid on it's back for my nesting boxes. Nothing special but FREE

OLD PICTURE - original idea





CURRENT PICTURE - the original idea didn't last long since the girls were scared to death of being inside





There is someone selling fruit crates for a few dollars on a local swap group and I wish I needed some for nesting boxes lol they'd be perfect and cute

 

[Quack House]

My girls will not go inside anything either ~ they defy all the rules for building. They nest really high on an open shelf that I boxed in with a piece of wood. And they perch low on a 2x4.

I wish I had an old shelf, but I don't. I actually bought some plastic nest boxes at the tractor store last year when I figured they would be the right thing, and they won't go inside them. So I've "Re-purposed" them in my new project, in hope that the new hens will take to them. We'll see.

Although it goes against my newly found 'recycled material' mantra.

Besides, I think re-purposed things have more character.

Fruit bins would be fantastic!

Very pretty hen by the way

 

[ChirpyChicks1]

Very pretty hen by the way

Thanks I was cleaning the coop and she got very upset with me because I locked her out, I ended up letting her so she kept me company