Asked on Apr 30, 2018
Help me make lightweight, inexpensive, meat-chicken transport crates.
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Grandmother
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I am a 65-year old, pretty handy woman. I will be raising about 100 meat chickens this year - free range, spoiled, happy birds. I need crates for transporting to my processor, but they are ridiculously expensive to buy. Your clever ideas will be appreciated by me and by my birds!
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You can use the inexpensive wooden crates you find at any home and garden store.
are you planning on doing chickens again following years? How long is the transportation going to take?
maybe Buy some chicken wire and create crates yourself. Or use a card board box as your base and give each box a chicken wire window or two for airflow?
How about a linen cart. They vary in prices and size
https://www.google.com/search?q=canvas+linen+cart&client=safari&hl=en-us&prmd=sivn&source=lnms&tbm=shop&sa=X&ved=0ahUKEwiwmt398uXaAhWlrFkKHeJfCYAQ_AUIESgB&biw=768&bih=922
How about those plastic crates (looks like old milk crates) $6 and then fashion a lid out of some flexible plastic and zip ties like those kitchen rolling mats from the dollar tree... $1 ea.
or use those cardboard pet carrier boxes... https://www.amazon.com/Revival-Animal-Health-Cardboard-Carrier/dp/B000MVX70W $2.50