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[Chickielady]

Here is a pic of the basic "hot frame" box, a floor , 4 walls attached to 2x2s in each corner.
A pop door can be cut into the floor on one side..legs can be screwed on, and you can make it any size.
The back wall is taller, and the sides slanted.
We have to build these to match the size of the window, and it helps to build them as per the sheet of OSB or plywood to avoid waste, such as in 4x4 or 4x8 sizes.

P.S. There is a 1/2" sheet of styrofoam on the inside, which really helps insulate, but chickens will eat it, so if you use styrofoam you would have to cut 2 of each piece, and sandwich the styrofoam inbetween so they cannot eat it.

 

[Chickielady]

Teresa try this:

http://www.bing.com/videos/search?q...pvt=How+to+build+a+chicken+tractor&FORM=VDRE#
Hope these help.

 

[Chickielady]

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Picking up eggs is almost as fun. My co-workers thought I was nuts when I told them I had eggs mailed to me...had to pick the eggs up at the post office. Fun- fun-fun.

We live in a very small town (700) and when my eggs were delivered this spring the sender had written LIVE OVUMS in red all over it. I had some tall explaining to do for that one.

Ooh Boy!!!
People will talk too!
Did they think you were trying to artificially enseminate yourself?????????

 

[Illia]

I write LIVE EMYBRYOS on mine and for months the PO ladies thought we actually sell our own human eggs.

 

[Chickielady]

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OMG!!!!!!!!!
Are you kidding????????
That is hysterical!!!

 

[Illia]

Not kidding. I honestly wonder why the thought that. Since when do women sell off their eggs, and since when could women extract their eggs at home?!

 

[Chickielady]

Julia, still no call back from sister, probably dealing with the goats?
Well, DH has sais it would be better to go see her the first of the week, Mon-Wed...so, I am going out to get some work done & have to cut DH's hair..he is starting to look too too much like Captain Kangeroo!!!!!!!!

 

[Chickielady]

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I think they have no idea that maybe animals and birds have embryos as well??
People are naive...I imagine they thought you were really gross doing that..to each other???
Ugh.

 

[Chickielady]

Illia, how are the Mastiffs doing?
getting HUGE???

 

[Illia]

Well, oh well. Part of the point was to keep people from being careless about it, because for all they know, they WERE mishandling a little human embryo. . . Practically aborting one.

It's better than writing anything with the word "egg" on it because then they KNOW they're fragile chicken eggs, and who cares about those right? It's like glass and ceramics. . .