04-25-2020, 04:31 AM
Here's a plan for a super simple chicken laying spot or makeshift coop:
Get a five gallon bucket. Nail it to a tree about 4 feet up or so. Line it with straw. (I just use long clumps of cut grass that I dry out)
Then put in a couple fake eggs (I use golf balls) in the nest. Hens will jump up in there and eventually lay.
I harvest a few eggs every day. Eventually the hen will brood and incubate her eggs. When the chicks hatch the fall is no problem for them. Like little cotton balls coming after mommy hen when she calls them.
Of course you can also build a box out of scrap lumber and a bit of roofing and nail that to a tree too.
ETA: you nail the buckets bottom to the tree so the cylinder is facing outwards horizontally.
Get a five gallon bucket. Nail it to a tree about 4 feet up or so. Line it with straw. (I just use long clumps of cut grass that I dry out)
Then put in a couple fake eggs (I use golf balls) in the nest. Hens will jump up in there and eventually lay.
I harvest a few eggs every day. Eventually the hen will brood and incubate her eggs. When the chicks hatch the fall is no problem for them. Like little cotton balls coming after mommy hen when she calls them.
Of course you can also build a box out of scrap lumber and a bit of roofing and nail that to a tree too.
ETA: you nail the buckets bottom to the tree so the cylinder is facing outwards horizontally.