How To Make a Chicken Nest Box for $3
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- Опубліковано 23 сер 2024
- Learn how to make a chicken nest box from a 5 gallon bucket in todays video.
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This month chicks will be arriving on our homestead, and to make room for them in our chicken coop, we need to move some big hens out to our larger coop.
Each chicken coop needs enough nest boxes for the chickens in it, and as we are going to be adding more chickens to our large coop, we need to add some more chicken nest boxes.
In this video I show you the nest boxes I usually use on the homestead, and I also show you a DIY Bucket nest box that I am going to try.
Will the chickens use the bucket? Wait and see in a future video!
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Walmart bakery has icing 5 gallon buckets round /square with lids for $1.00 ask at bakery.
Why do people always have something to complain about this video was darling and I have guineas too can hear them in back ground take his idea and try it geeze people he showed you what to do so 🤔 quit bitching..
Chickens are definitely like high schoolers. Thank you so much for a great idea with my leftover 5 gallon buckets.
My hens lay in the hollowed out trunk of a dead tree on top of a pile of leaves. It was free. :) Chickens are cool. Great ideas, keep them coming!
Do u have photos? Lol cool idea
I’m stealing this idea. Right now I use milk crates, they work good. When I go to add new nesting boxes, I’m going to try the buckets! Thanks for sharing!
Just so everyone knows...there’s no update for this video into whether or not it worked for his chickens and how that experiment went. I checked. You’re welcome.
Thanx
They work. I made 5 of them and mine use them daily. I put a small peace of wood screwed to the lid for a place for them to land on when they jump up to use then.
@@michaelmyers5027 I'm sure they work. Chickens will use what they can, and if that's all they have, they can use that.
The question posed in the video was to see if they might like that commercial design better than the DIY design.
And yes, it still will depend on individual chickens or chicken groups.
So the DIY version is fine, but we still don't know if the challenge of one design or the other, was preferred by this guy's chickens.
Thanks I was searching for it.
I checked too. then I thought the top comment would let me know, so I went back...
7:20 a tomato sauce can top works great as a large washer 👍
A great idea. I see buckets along the highway all the time. Comparison is a nice idea. Thanks for the idea. God bless America.
The big washers are "fender" washers if you are looking for them. Thanks for the video!
Great idea! Once we get our homestead built in the jungle, we are going to have a tone of empty 5 gal. paint buckets.
Buying a coup is fine of you want to spend upwards of$800 for the size you have. Return on investment will be a long way off that route. Granted, not everyone is handy with tools and basic carpentry skills. Its all good, buying might be the route to go then. Before dumping a ton of cash on brand shiny new, check out Front Porch Forum, Craigslist, even Facebook market and look for a decent used one. Lots of people buy and a year later don't want to be bothered. Chickens, (really all livestock) require work. Not something the average person wants to do.
If you put the nesting box above the roost bar the chickens will sleep in the nesting box. Chickens will always roost in the highest place.
update please. we are nearing the end of our 5 year plan so we are planing on being on a farm in the next year. SO YEAH as many idea as we can find is the best.
hey!! Did you make it to the farm yet?
I’m looking for the follow up video on whether the bucket nest worked. I would love to trust you unconditionally, but you placed the nest higher than the roosts, and everyone knows that’s a sure way to get chickens sleeping in them…poopy eggs.
Anyone know if the bucket nest is a good idea?
How has this dude not cut his damn fingers off with the saws all yet .....damn son you swinging that saw around like its nothing
Relax!
Just took a hacksaw to the pinky the other day😂
Thats a well done instructional video. Thank you. Lawn mower grass catchers worked wonders for mums chickens.
Can you go into detail
I’m glad this video popped up! I’m making mine out of the cat litter buckets I have collected lol the lids already break apart for the little lip. 🙌
How did it go? I save 10 to shoot at the range some day. This seems so much better.
@@Odin31b only one hen even tried them lol I think they are too narrow, or something. They liked the round bucket I used better, but I didn’t want to go buy more buckets, so I ended up building boxes with some scrap lumber I had around.
@@beckyboman1641 my wife also said they probably would be too narrow. Thanks for responding!
@@Odin31b I have barred rocks and rhode Island reds using one on my porch every day.
We’re bad. We use cardboard boxes from Costco >:3 The cardboard is good for the garden once broken down and manured.
Did the same for years till I ran out of cardboard. Then we used plastic tubs
Just in time! We are about to start our chicken house and I love the diy nest box bucket😉. Thanks!
5 gallon buckets are now 7.99 at Murdoch's, thanks Brandon.
Excellent!!!! Thank you for this video ☺️!!!!
Incredible That will help my friends homestead
Subscribed! Looking to make nesting boxes and I'm no Carpenter, thanks for the info you can actually buy these. I don't have an electric saw but will a hand one do?
Which one worked best. New chichen owner. I need to get on to the nest boxed.
Where did you buy your pre-made chicken coop? it is really cute.
Looks easy to clean too!
Great looking Red Star rooster
I'm using milk crates for now. With wooded eggs in there. Hoping they'll get the hint and lay early. Still too young.
How are they doing now? 😊
@@evamcauley1598 wow 2 years ago. Got 6 more chicks before this corona virus started and they just started laying. It's so much fun getting new chicks. They are so comical.
Nancy Fahey aww! I got my first chickens a couple of months ago as “teens” but they still aren’t laying 😂-I’ve ordered oyster shells though and hopefully that will get them going!
@@evamcauley1598 oyster shells are ok I guess. I use eggshells. I save them in a round quaker oats container with an old potato masher. Keep mashing them down and 2 or 3 times a year I cook them to kill any salmonella then scatter them all over the yard. They take what they need. It's free.
Does those nesting beds work for bloody hens as well?
First! Loved the video! Very Practical.
Thank you!
0:56 “ back off back off , it’s mine “
When did you started laying eggs 🥚 😹
Just joke btw nice video😅😂
Question, why do you cut it? I do the same thing, use a bucket, I screw it down and everything so it doesn't roll around, put straw in, but I don't cut it. And my chickens absolutely love it! They also have just a milk crate, and just a big plywood & 2x4 box for laying eggs in, and their favorite is the bucket and the milk crate.
Let me know why you cut the bucket please. Thanks guys! Much love and respect. Thanks again for whatcha do!
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Great video!
Good 👍
Great idea!!
Thanks
I made a DIY chicken nest box for $4. My chickens are laying. I think your bucket chicken nestbox is nicer.
we use old lawn mower catchers no cutting required
Great idea! Thanks for sharing! 🌼
question how high off the ground should you put a nest box??/
No higher than 2 feet or so. Also, you do want the nesting boxes lower than the roosts to not encourage using the box as a roost. But don't place the box under the roosts. I wouldn't say there are any hard fast rules, but I wouldn't do it how he did in this video.
So did they use the bucket nest box? Terrific video by the way, very easy to follow and instructive.
Absolutely
i didn't notice a perch on your new bucket nest box. if the chickens jump on & off using the lid, will it stay on?
bev lower Plus the edges are sharp. I see ppl leave sharp and pointy edges on things from fences to all sorts of things and it is something that gets my attention every time. I think it is worth it to take the small amount of time to fix, rather than have to care for a wounded animal.
Perhaps it would be better to tie on a thick branch or piece of wood to both ends of the bucket with twine and file all the rough edges of the bucket. You could even cut the cover a little lower, and have the branch just above it so there is a perch and a small wall to keep the bedding inside and being the cover wouldn't be used as the perch, it should, in theory, stay on.
I was thinking, if he locked that wire handle in place somehow, the handle could be just as good a perch as the one on the bought box.
Lid has a rubber seal.
Great video! I tried signing up for the email but nothing happened when I try to summit....???
I think a small plastic trash can would offer the chickens the privacy & comfort that the original one has. I still like the DIY though.
That is such a great idea!! Great video!
COOL...I LOVE DIY'S!!
you did a good job...
Hay well done
What if I have six chickens and what I’d their coop only has two or three built in near boxes.
It took forever for my hens to start using the bucket, and now that they are, it is not used much. Maybe if you only have the buckets it would work better.
0:19 That is such an adorable chicken! What kind of breed is it?
its a braham chicken
Great ideas! Love diy projects!
Haven’t started yet doing my research as to what to do and all so does anyone have advice for me the new ghetto farmer?
what are you farming? start there first and maybe someone can give some advice.
nice info
All the cool kids are doing it 😂
Your statement that 'usually' the chickens pick out one or two nest boxes and they all lay in those got me thinking. Isn't that the same thing that Ratites do? Just wondering if that thought has occurred to anyone else.
Thank you for this! Y'all be careful with the Sawzall! Keep a tight grib and use gloves. :))
I made a run and nesting spaces and they had different laying spot options. They prefered the spot which I hadn't intended. Just a fruit tray with leaves in which had the least relative privacy but which was the highest up one. I have two hens and a cock The cock always stands like a bodyguard next to the hen when she is laying. Is that common?
Mine does that too. He and the other hen make strange noises, almost like they are announcing the arrival of a new babe.
hey i been thinking why you don't get a portable milking machine i know you don't have it can be expensive but well worth the investment. they average around $600
I think it's because he doesn't need it for the chickens.
Thankyou for this video you definatly helped me with the hen victoria. 🐓🐣
Great idea...
How many nest boxes would you need for 16 chickens?
just 1, if they all use the same nest box . otherwise, 16, if they each want to use their own. and in case some share and some don't, then any other number in between 2 to 15 nest boxes, depending on your chickens.
What happen to your fish?🐠🐟🦈and plant's 🌱🌱🌱aquaponics?
The boxes look tiny, like for bantams. I heard 12x12 min.
Nest box should be lower than roosts or hens will roost in it.
125=CUTE
Where in Ct do you live. I live in Preston, Ct.
I made it and My chickens loved it
watch your hands fella!
Why cut apart the bucket, when you can just cut a half moon out of its lid?
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something about them needing sufficient landing space.
And if you don't have a lid with the bucket, use duct tape
Where is the update?
But how do u keep chicks from falling out? I’ve had chickens since Easter and they’re not ready to lay eggs so I’m trying to learn as much as I can before they do.
Add a plank to prevent
I'm a tamilan I had only country hens
Do you live in Ct?
Yep
Egg delivery!
What kinda of CHICKEN FARMERS DROPPS A FRESH 🥚 EGG
I was just waiting for him to drop one he did at 0:56. I wanted it to break.
Why?
@@thegreatestislove8604 i don’t know
The egg 🥚 don’t break 😧😧🤔
Apna Jasa murga banaya hai
Not a Good idea to cut the Plastic in the chicken 🐓 Coop wen Chickens.
Not supposed to put nest boxes up where your roost are because hens will sleep in box and poop it them!! Nasty eggs!!
I made it myself. Just take a fast look for woodprix.
for me this is not the right vid its a FOOD VID ON MY PC YYYYYYY
Dumbest idea i've seen So far!!
cool idea, but just looks cheap and ugly. I'd rather spend some money to make it look nice, rather than having a bucket on my wall. Cool idea tho
You're cheap and ugly..
That's an ugly as nestbox