My bucket chicken nest experiment is a success!
Our old metal nests are rusting through. I've been brainstorming about cheap alternatives. I decided to see if our chickens would like laying in a bucket. I put some bricks around it to stabilize it and put some straw in it. The chickens love it!
We have a set of roll out nests. We hate them and so do our chickens. They might work in some big factory setting, but you can't use straw in them because it blocks the roll out portion. Even if you don't use straw, it is difficult to get your fingers around the eggs that are under the roll out tray.
We only have a few chickens that will use them for laying, but they do like to roost on them! Mostly they just serve as a high flutent chicken out house.
I want to make some shelves to put buckets on with a board across the front to keep the straw from being kicked out quickly and to hold the handles up to serve as perches. They would be easier to clean and fairly cheap to set up.
So all you local peeps, if you've got any extra 5 gallon buckets you'd be willing to part with, please give me a call!
God Bless You All!
~Grama Sue
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