Recycled Build

[Raymond 618]

When my dad first built our hutches he put wire floors in them as he lived out in the country anything that fell threw the hens scratched and ate when I moved them down here I cut sheets of ply and covered the wire as I wouldn't get away with it and after a few years the wire rots and needs replacing

thanks lads, thanks for the tip, il keep an eye on the wire, ive one on the go 8 years with the same wire and still going grand. I wouldnt have thought about the wire rotting. simple things slip the mind sometimes

[Raymond 618]

Alright bit of work that Raymond, good feeling when you make it out of bits of leftovers ferrets be sound in that mate atb Flacko

Thanks Flacko, yeah great to use up all scrap wood, took longer this way than buying brand new timber and alot more effort and work involved. you just dont see it after I put a few coats of paint on it. I will probably really use it in spring and summer as its very wide open and probably be a bit cold and airy in winter. just use it in the winter for a big run for the ferrets and put them into my other hutches that are alot more timber and probably warmer in winter for them. Sure you never know with the smaller nest box full of shavings they should be warm in that together in the winter. I will see how it goes.

[Daniel cain 45,777]

When I was a kid my Oldman would have a little square of mesh in the corner of hutch where they would shit,handy open it up and falls in to a bucket,that's if they all shit in the same spot lol, tidy little set up pal.atb dc

[Raymond 618]

When I was a kid my Oldman would have a little square of mesh in the corner of hutch where they would shit,handy open it up and falls in to a bucket,that's if they all shit in the same spot lol, tidy little set up pal.atb dc

Thanks I remeber as a kid one of the mates lived on margarine and his mother would buy a large plastic container of margarine. We got the empty container and cut it in half at an angle that both halfs where the shape of a triangle and put one half in the corner the ferret shit in but with it not fixed solid the ferrets would play with it, but when they left it in the corner long enough to fill it with shit it was handy just to lift it out and wash it out

[Captain Black 7]

Nice one