[Homestead] Chicken Housing

Roy Morgan k1lky at earthlink.net
Sat May 24 21:56:58 EDT 2008


On May 23, 2008, at 9:32 PM, Gloria Morris wrote:

> ... I will need to secure the bucket in some
> fashion. Nailing it to the hen house would make it immobile, but also
> less easy to clean.

Maybe bungee cords.  Rubber cloth covered things with hooks on each  
end.  Harbor Freight has them cheap.  They'd be washable, too.  A  
round eye screwed into the support for the flat sided buckets would  
be good to hook the ends to. Use eyes big enough to take two hooks.   
A simple nail bent over would work, too.

It's not completely clear that their nests need to be very clean,  
though.  But I know from nothing about chickens.

I know that folks who tell how to make both blue bird houses and  
purple martin apartment dwellings want us to provide for yearly  
cleaning.

The house I grew up in still has wooden the chicken roosting boxes,  
still in place unused since the 1940's.

Roy

Roy Morgan
k1lky at earthlink.net
Lovettsville, VA 20180





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