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[cheryl98117]

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Mine aren't quite exterior, but I do have a slant built into them. I followed plans posted on this website by "Opa". The eggs roll back into a storage room. I don't have the matts he uses in them, I just use a bix of shredded paper and wood shavings. If I don't make it deep, the eggs roll back.

So I got the exterior nest boxes done and they turned out way better than I planned.

(cause I didn't have a plan ... or drawing!

) Before I screwed on the floor board, I put a 1/2 inch piece of scrap wood under it on the side that is away from the egg collection door. The egg rolled great. One of the people that I viewed their plans used coconut coir sheet in the bottom of the nest box. I'm going to try that and hope that the eggs will still roll to the back. I also made a drop down door instead of a hinged lift up roof cause my kids are going to collect eggs and are not tall enough to reach down inside. I'll have to attach chain to the door to keep it from opening too far. This will make a ledge that they can set the basket while they gather the eggs. All in all, it was a successfully productive afternoon! Now, if I can only find sheet coir around here!

Please please please!!! If you have pictures would you post them???

There needs to be a true begging smiley... Cause thats what I'm doing... I am so insanely stuck on these exterior nest boxes... Thats whats holding up the move in now... Just this darn block in my head, I have NO clue how to make this work. The spot is all framed in, planed on having them slide in then screw down, but I have no clue how to actually make it work... Let alone making the actual boxes themselves...

OH! In happier news, my eggs finally arived! I was starting to worry that they wouldnt arive. lol So I now have 8 cukoo marans, 3 FBCM, 7 Light Sussex, 6 unknown Bantam eggs, 3 mistery eggs, and 3 CM's crosses... It seemed like it took forever for these eggs to arive. But then again, I have never ordered anything from Kansas. lol

 

[broodytood]

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Very cool!!!!!!!!!!!!!

If you cut & stuff the styrofoam insulation in the spaces, and then face with more plywood (or OSB) the walls will be warmer & not get all wet & moldy from condensation.
Should be easy enough to do with a few screws to hold the walls 'in place' while the liquid nails set up.
Cut the styrofoam, cut the inner walls, apply the liquid nails & press into place & a few screws should hold it in place until set.
Liquid nails: awesome stuff.
I have to show DH these pics when he gets home, he is off the the scrap yard for plucker parts.
When it rains, he works on the plucker.
Sun, we work on the coop.
And it is cold & raining here now..with what looks like BIG thunderheads full of hail floating over.

Oh Broody, I get the coconut fiber now, just don't understand why ?

Thanks CL!
The coir is flat and compact so the eggs will roll to the back, feels nest like to the hen, they can pick at it without getting something dangerous(unlike that fake outdoor grass stuff), and like I said it's hose cleanable. I've never tried it before so it is experimental but if it doesn't work, I have lots of flower baskets that it can go in!

(like one under every window on the front of my house!) Gotta build a green house next for all my flower starts so I can cut down on my spring flower bill.

Hope these will brighten someones day and give you hope that we will get flower weather soon!

I'm gonna go out and get back to work right after this latest hail storm is over!

 

[broodytood]

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So I got the exterior nest boxes done and they turned out way better than I planned.

(cause I didn't have a plan ... or drawing!

) Before I screwed on the floor board, I put a 1/2 inch piece of scrap wood under it on the side that is away from the egg collection door. The egg rolled great. One of the people that I viewed their plans used coconut coir sheet in the bottom of the nest box. I'm going to try that and hope that the eggs will still roll to the back. I also made a drop down door instead of a hinged lift up roof cause my kids are going to collect eggs and are not tall enough to reach down inside. I'll have to attach chain to the door to keep it from opening too far. This will make a ledge that they can set the basket while they gather the eggs. All in all, it was a successfully productive afternoon! Now, if I can only find sheet coir around here!

Please please please!!! If you have pictures would you post them???

There needs to be a true begging smiley... Cause thats what I'm doing... I am so insanely stuck on these exterior nest boxes... Thats whats holding up the move in now... Just this darn block in my head, I have NO clue how to make this work. The spot is all framed in, planed on having them slide in then screw down, but I have no clue how to actually make it work... Let alone making the actual boxes themselves...

OH! In happier news, my eggs finally arived! I was starting to worry that they wouldnt arive. lol So I now have 8 cukoo marans, 3 FBCM, 7 Light Sussex, 6 unknown Bantam eggs, 3 mistery eggs, and 3 CM's crosses... It seemed like it took forever for these eggs to arive. But then again, I have never ordered anything from Kansas. lol

Look on page 3125, I finally got some pics up!

 

[jbear]

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i just came in to rest.. but I was out stuffing pots with flowers..

SUN!

 

[broodytood]

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i just came in to rest.. but I was out stuffing pots with flowers..

SUN!

SUN X2!!!! I'm tired of hail!!!

 

[hallerlake]

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Their frontal cortex, which controls impulse control isn't hardwired until their early twenties. Could some of this be because of his father's rejection? How is that going?

Sneaking on while the boss is busy, Shhhhhh! My DS is having a really hard time because of his father and he is in couseling but that just started last week. I don't think he has talked to his dad since he found out that his dad changed the locks at their house and DS's key wouldn't work anymore. I noticed that the biggest behavior change started after that. But he is an impulsive kid to begin with. He knows what he did was wrong, and is grounded at home too, through the weekend. But I did tell him that if he gets in trouble again he will be grounded for a month! Although I think that might be hardest on me!

I feel for you and your son. Your ex sounds like a grade A applesauce.

 

[Chicken Rustler]

broody if ya can't find the coconut stuff locally. Check out door mats. They make them that are the same stuff. We have one at our front door. I am also SOOO tired of this sun RAIN sun HAIL RAIN sun RAIN sun HAIL !!! I am almost ready to put the roof on the banty coop but could really use some help from the weather!!!

 

[Chickielady]

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Nope, don't think she even came. I'm beginning to wonder if she's scared of the competition

Believe me, it's fun even if you don't win. I don't always place, but I always learn. I'm hauling my wyandottes to MT in hopes of getting some guidance from Gary Overton re: how to improve from where I'm at. You get to meet such cool people who have raised breeds you love for a long time, in my case sometimes longer than I've been alive. The youth are a lot of fun too... I sold a bird and gave a bird to a girl who I remember bought birds from me last Spring at Stevenson, she's grown a lot!

...and if you're the crazy type, there's always a bit of crazy in the evenings! Even though I went a week on very little sleep in order to get all my schoolwork done AND bathe/blowdry 27 birds (which wouldn't have happened without my lovely Mr. Sol), I had so much fun with the fellow exhibitors that I slept very little while there and still felt full of warm and fuzzies at the end of the weekend.

I shared a room with a bunch of gals, and it was like a big sleepover. I *loved* it. Seriously,.. you gotta make it next time chickie. I know you had your hands overfull this time, but wow.... I hope you come to the fall show. They're trying to get me to be building superintendent, but I don't think it's gonna work with my school schedule.

There were some cool people up from CA that I hadn't met before, and Lewis Farms was up from NV..

I showed at Monroe, but drove up & back the same day.
I entered 2 birds at Stevenson but DH had to go out of town 3 weeks for his Mom sick and then died & he then stuck around another week to console his Dad.
I had the motel all ready for Fri, Sat & home Sunday....

Oh well, next time I will be there!
But this old lady hits the hay at 10 PM !!!!!!!!!!

So great to have you win with a blue !!
Post pics of her please!!

 

[Chickielady]

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My runs were almost dry yesterday....................so let's not forget the mud, rain, hail, sun, mud, hail, rain, snow, hail, ice, freeze, mud, mud, mud!!!!!!!!!

Trying to work in the rain/hail/sun ain't so bad, but this slippery gooey mud has got to go!!
Snot slippery.......

 

[Stumpfarmer]

It's ridiculously cold out there, especially when the wind keeps whipping around and beating me in the face with wet laundry. I need to do a bunch of stuff outside, and am being sort of a wuss and only doing what's out of the wind and in the sun: good news for the roses, not so good for the chicken coop, since the miter saw is set up at the coldest most wind-exposed part of the yard.

Ian and Sylvia finally figured out how to take lumps of compost apart and find the worms. I was worried there for a while.