Pro - Does anyone else's nest boxes get soaked in rain?

[freespiritbutterfly]

Hi all

 

I'm curious, I'm debating whether to get a greenhouse type thing to store my chicken bits ( food, suppletments, cleaning bits etc) in in my garden as it's slowly taking over my kitchen.

 

Where does everyone else store their bits?

[Cat tails]

Cleaning bits and woodchips are in the stone garden shed. Food and antiworming are inside. Food is by the garden door, "treatments" are in the kitchen cabinet.

[Grandmashazzie]

I keep food in a royal canine dog food bin,free at vets. It's watertight and stays outside. Wood shavings,newspapers and medicines live in the shed. I know what you mean ,you need lots of bits and bobs sometimes so you accumulate lots of stuff.

[freespiritbutterfly]

I can't do the shed as I am stupidly scared of spiders

 

Thanks for your reply

[Cat tails]

Same goes for any animal I guess... how much stuff I have for the cat.... not to speak of the gerbils... gram for gram, they take up most space here!

[freespiritbutterfly]

my cat rules the house and currently chooks are ruling kitchen with bits and garden with been chooks

[Chickabee]

I have stables. I know I'm very lucky, but they are full of spiders At our old house, I bought a tiny shed just for chicken stuff. Those outdoor plastic storage things are good too

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[mullethunter]

Where I live now bedding, cleaning stuff, health stuff etc is in the shed, food is outside the shed in a sort or lean to in a plastic dustbin that has a clip on lid.

 

In my old house, we had a plastic garden box that I stored everything in.

[sarkymite]

Chicken bits all over the place here

 

So, feed and treats are in a secure metal bin outside next to the Eglu for easy access for feeding. (It's water tight and rat proof)

Bedding, DE etc and the less often used / tried and abandoned medical/treatment bits are in the shed. Shed is right by the Eglu too so easy access for stuff for cleaning out.

Cider vinegar, tonic, vitamin drops and any current (or currently favoured) treatments / medical bits are under kitchen sink (ease of access for adding liquids to water as our outside tap is broken so I have to get water from inside).

On the dining room floor by the patio door is, randomly, one bag of herbal treats, a couple of empty plastic containers which I use for taking fresh treats down the garden, some empty large milk cartons for carting water down the garden and most importantly, my gardening clogs (more accurately referred to as my chicken clogs )

I think the pet carriers for transportation are on OH's tool shelf in the garage, also a spare run cover, and the most recently purchased bag of bedding is under the stairs in the hall.

My OH despairs...

[Chickabee]

Oh my goodness sarkymite, you've got it bad

[freespiritbutterfly]

Chicken bits all over the place here

 

So, feed and treats are in a secure metal bin outside next to the Eglu for easy access for feeding. (It's water tight and rat proof)

Bedding, DE etc and the less often used / tried and abandoned medical/treatment bits are in the shed. Shed is right by the Eglu too so easy access for stuff for cleaning out.

Cider vinegar, tonic, vitamin drops and any current (or currently favoured) treatments / medical bits are under kitchen sink (ease of access for adding liquids to water as our outside tap is broken so I have to get water from inside).

On the dining room floor by the patio door is, randomly, one bag of herbal treats, a couple of empty plastic containers which I use for taking fresh treats down the garden, some empty large milk cartons for carting water down the garden and most importantly, my gardening clogs (more accurately referred to as my chicken clogs )

I think the pet carriers for transportation are on OH's tool shelf in the garage, also a spare run cover, and the most recently purchased bag of bedding is under the stairs in the hall.

My OH despairs...

 

I like this

[Luvachicken]

My bedding and spare house live in the shed along with the cat carriers I use for the vets.

Their food goes in a bin with handles that keep the lid on which is outside the back door.

Things like Flubenvet, tonic and other medicine stuff go in a little kitchen cupboard.

 

I did treat myself last summer to a Girl Shed - it looks like a mini beach hut in lilac (to match my cube) - in there are spare drinkers, treat holders, old flannels - really good for cleaning the cube - my collection of children's tools which are just the right size in the run, small tub trugs and a huge sack of grit.

 

Really pleased with my shed and as yet haven't seen a single spider in it

[Valkyrie]

A cabinet (actually a computer cabinet!) in the utility room. Other bits are in the garage - in plastic boxes which lock so that meeces can't get at it!

[Hippie Chick]

I don't have a very sophisticated system of storage! I bought a couple of metal bins with lids from B&Q and use those to store feeds etc. I have a large plastic storage box that slides under a low table in the kitchen for medicines, ACV and other bits and pieces. Other than that there are randomly deposited things wherever they fit - you can expect to find a large tub of mealworms in the pantry

[gavclojak]

I have a bin for the food and a large plastic chest type box for all the other bits and bobs...it also doubles as a sun lounger for the girls who take great delight in hopping up there and sun bathing

[Alis girls]

I'm with Sarkymite here (lovely name girl where did that come from?) I am a messy lady. So long as girlies are fed watered and wormed and happy I am happy too. Lifes too short for perfection but each to their own.

[BridieLou]

Bedding in the shed, along with a big black plastic storage bin that has all their food, corn, treats, DE and cider vinegar in it. Next to the back door are chicken clogs and a box of treats for everyday use.

 

I let mine in the shed to eat the spiders!

[sarkymite]

I'm with Sarkymite here (lovely name girl where did that come from?) I am a messy lady. So long as girlies are fed watered and wormed and happy I am happy too. Lifes too short for perfection but each to their own.

 

Ah thanks!! I made it up when I was 18 and had just gone off to uni, was my first real exposure to "online" and my then boyfriend said I had to have an online name. I invented it from my (not entirely desirable) penchant for sarcasm + my love of marmite

 

At work I'm 100% tidy and organised. At home.. . Erm... not so.

[Sil-El]

I keep their food in a dustbin in the garage, also the straw, diatom earth etc.

 

Treats, tonics and cider vinegar live in the kitchen.

 

And their corn is in another dustbin on the patio.

 

Speaking of spiders, I was cleaning the hen house today and made the mistake of looking up! Their ceiling is festooned with cobwebs and spider nests! We have a wooden house not an Eglu and the spiders just love it. And the garage has some enormous ones lurking in corners as well. I hate spiders, there's something alien about them don't you think?

[dancing cloud]

Two dustbins in the garden and Flubenvet in the utility room with the other animal medicines.

[Lewis]

Feed is in bins in the side passage by the back door with an assortment of wellies, Aubiose and sealed buckets of supplements in the shed, carriers and crates in the greenhouse, various rabbit cages strewn around the shed. I think we have more feeders and drinkers than we do birds, I genuinely don't know where they come from anymore!

 

Smaller supplements and tonics are either in the garage, cupboard under the sink or on a shelf in the side passage.

I have a whole wardrobe in my room just for chicken and taxidermy stuff, full of incubators (I have 8 or 9), boxes for courses, leaflets, samples, posters, books and chicken magazines. All the 'proper' supplements, antibiotics, wormers and mite treatments are in there too. There's also a complete antelope skeleton and a pygmy goat waiting to be articulated in there