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#$!^$!! I got it put inside the BBS silkie pen along the back wall (it goes up 10 feet high there so no problem), anchored in place, shavings in, waterers hooked on (I used the lix-it kind from pet's mart), a cage cup in for feed, the roosters all situated......
AND FORGOT TO TAKE A PICTURE!!!! So sorry....will get it tomorrow for sure and post.
Cost breakdown:
$45 for shelves - I think Lowes has one that would have 5 spaces (6 shelves) that is $49
1 roll of 36" hardware wire - I used 1/2 inch...if you had quail I'd use the 1/4 inch - $35.00 and I used the whole thing
cheap washers.....a bunch
1" drywall coarse thread drywall screws....what did we do before they made these???
vinyl flooring for the top of each shelf, which is the floor of each little condo; I used vinyl tiles because I found them on sale sooooo cheap, but a piece of remnant vinyl flooring would work fine.
$6.00
The dimensions of each space is 24" deep X 36" wide X 18" high. Plenty of room for each of my silkie roos. I actually put broody silkie hens in the top one together just to see how they would fit. It would be fine for them to sit on eggs there. These are pullets and they want to be broody....but not really....know what I mean?? They were up dancing around in the new digs...so I took them out and put them back in the pen where they merrily ate/drank and took dust baths outside. But is would be a great place to put a hen who is truly sitting on eggs.
It's quick and easy to do. I wrapped each space completely, then cut a door with wire snips, cut another piece of wire to overlap about an inch all the way around and attached with the cage tool. But you could just weave or wrap wire around it to make "hinges" too. Coming up with a way to close the door was more of a challenge than anything. They make ones that you can purchase, but we don't have them locally so I used an eye-round with a nut/bolt back and rigged it to be able to close it by closing the door and twisting the eye-round to lock it.
I like the "seed guard" idea. I'll look at the pet store for some of that. The shavings stayed in fine with the hardware cloth. If you were going to put something like this inside your house for a sick birds, etc, having the seed guard in would be nice
This is out in a pen with shavings in the bottom so it doesn't matter.
AND FORGOT TO TAKE A PICTURE!!!! So sorry....will get it tomorrow for sure and post.
Cost breakdown:
$45 for shelves - I think Lowes has one that would have 5 spaces (6 shelves) that is $49
1 roll of 36" hardware wire - I used 1/2 inch...if you had quail I'd use the 1/4 inch - $35.00 and I used the whole thing
cheap washers.....a bunch
1" drywall coarse thread drywall screws....what did we do before they made these???
vinyl flooring for the top of each shelf, which is the floor of each little condo; I used vinyl tiles because I found them on sale sooooo cheap, but a piece of remnant vinyl flooring would work fine.
$6.00
The dimensions of each space is 24" deep X 36" wide X 18" high. Plenty of room for each of my silkie roos. I actually put broody silkie hens in the top one together just to see how they would fit. It would be fine for them to sit on eggs there. These are pullets and they want to be broody....but not really....know what I mean?? They were up dancing around in the new digs...so I took them out and put them back in the pen where they merrily ate/drank and took dust baths outside. But is would be a great place to put a hen who is truly sitting on eggs.
It's quick and easy to do. I wrapped each space completely, then cut a door with wire snips, cut another piece of wire to overlap about an inch all the way around and attached with the cage tool. But you could just weave or wrap wire around it to make "hinges" too. Coming up with a way to close the door was more of a challenge than anything. They make ones that you can purchase, but we don't have them locally so I used an eye-round with a nut/bolt back and rigged it to be able to close it by closing the door and twisting the eye-round to lock it.
I like the "seed guard" idea. I'll look at the pet store for some of that. The shavings stayed in fine with the hardware cloth. If you were going to put something like this inside your house for a sick birds, etc, having the seed guard in would be nice
