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Rural/Farm Life

mopinko

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10. anybody use cardboard boxes?

Reply to hedgehog (Original post)

Fri Aug 24, 2012, 11:28 AM

Aug 2012

i've raised budgies, and i always made them boxes out of cereal boxes, or some such, and they can just be tossed when they are done with them.
anyone do this for chickens?

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just sticking in a reply to make sure mopinko Aug 2012 #1

well, chickens are kind of round.. Viva_La_Revolution Aug 2012 #2

I read about it somewhere - if they like it, it makes a lot of sense - hedgehog Aug 2012 #4

We found round buckets work best. JoeyT Aug 2012 #3

Thanks! hedgehog Aug 2012 #5

chicken answer: bvar22 Aug 2012 #6

Ours do the same thing. JoeyT Aug 2012 #7

Yeah, they do that! Redford Aug 2012 #8

My hens don't care about shape or color. LWolf Aug 2012 #9

anybody use cardboard boxes? mopinko Aug 2012 #10

No. LWolf Aug 2012 #11

Well, the buckets are in place, and so far all the hens are ignoring them. hedgehog Sep 2012 #12

They have their own ideas, lol. LWolf Sep 2012 #13

Last fall I built a nice wooden set of 3 nesting boxes. rad51 Sep 2012 #14

I have a dozen hens at the moment Kali Sep 2012 #15