Hello from Wisconsin

[Wholeview]

Hi my name is Joe. My wife and I have a flock of 20 mixed birds. They are Ameraucanas, Rhode Island Reds and, Red Star Pullets. I publish a blog about our chickens and gardening activities. It can be viewed athttp://wholeviewfarm.blogspot.com

I recently built a 6 bay nest box out of scrap wood. I wrote a post with detailed directions on how to build one.
http://wholeviewfarm.blogspot.com/2013/01/a-low-cost-easy-to-build-chicken-nest.html

I look forward to joining the discussion here.

 

[Marigold]

Hi Joe, and welcome to the Forum, I'm so glad you found us. I looked at your interesting blog, and once again thought how good it is to have yet another international member. Evidently you had a really hot, dry summer last year - very different from us in the soggy U.K. Lovely pics of the flowers, though. And these instructions for making nest boxes, with the pictures, are very helpful, people on here do a lot of that sort of thing. What is winter like in Wisconsin? Looking forward to hearing more about your small holding and the birds.

 

[Wholeview]

Thanks Marigold!

Here are some pics of the nest box

 

[chrismahon]

Welcome to the forum Wholeview. We build loads of stuff, it's part of the low -budget poultry keeping thing. I get nearly as much pleasure from building coops, runs and shelters and seeing them being used successfully as I do from actually keeping the chickens. Have never built a free-standing nest box though as none of our coops are big enough to house one -they all have to be mobile so our biggest coop is only 6' x 4'.

Great blog. The price of your plywood is incredible. Four times that price in the UK and here. Boiled linseed oil is a great idea -I use creosote and paraffin mix for all our surfaces, which is nasty stuff but stops mites. Will check out the linseed over here.

 

[tygrysek75]

Welcome.I had a peek on to your blog,very nice.Close call with the havks you had.In here we need to worry about mainly foxes in towns.I had few close call with them too as they bold and comming during day time now.I'm also keep mine birds penned and let them out daily whenever I'm around.Do you have more pictures of your chickens.I'm finding dificult to navigate in your blog.