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re: mobile chicken coop
30 mar 1998
philip wrote:
>nicksanspam@ece.vill.edu wrote:
>>>how do you move the chicken tractor without harming the birds inside????
>>make a chicken-propelled pvc pipe+chicken-wire geodesic sphere,
>>with an internal water tank mounted on 3 large trackballs, and
>>a parasol mounted on top of the tank for shade? :-)
>i think nick is pulling our (chicken) leg, but his idea may have
>serious possibilities for rabbits or guineapigs! just think, a couple
>of bunnies in a rabbitsphere (tm) mooching about the lawn all day,
>mowing it for you - and fertilising randomly as they go!
>you heard it here first.
sounds good to me.
>ps make sure the spheres are not on too steep a slope...
don't bunnies need water too? how would they get it? dewy grass?
rolling the rabbitsphere (tm) into a shallow pond? are they clever
enough to do that, and cooperate in moving in a single direction?
how many bunnies per acre, to keep a lawn mowed?
i'd like to build a rabbitsphere (tm) this morning... 10 $2 pieces of
2" x 10' electrical conduit cut in thirds, 60 8" pieces of stiff galvanized
iron strapping, 72 nuts and bolts, a $60 150' roll of 4' wide chicken wire,
and another 4 10' pieces of conduit ripped lengthwise in thirds to make cap
strips with sheet metal screws, to hold on the chicken wire...
now how about a goatsphere (tm) or horsesphere (tm) or cowsphere (tm)?
nick
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