Like most families out there, our cash-flow situation is tight. The hens aren’t laying enough to bring in egg money. What to do?
Yesterday I was in a trendy Boston neighborhood, wandering around a crafts fair and farmers market. I also popped into an old warehouse that now hosts vintage sellers on the weekend.
One of the vendors was selling this:
The tag said claimed it is a “chicken feeder from Texas, cleaned and sealed.” The price? $175.
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So, here’s my idea. I’ll get a few nesting boxes, let my chickens give them that authentic patina, and then sell them to decorators! Genius!
Did the people from Texas take their chickens to the drive-in movies? Are my eyes deceiving me, or are there two drive-in speakers hanging from the chicken feeder?
Those are drive-in speakers! Just part of the jumble of the display. But you have me thinking…
You are brilliant!! I’m curious about those drive-in speakers though, and how the seller thought they related to the “feeders”. Pretty funny.
OMG that made my day!
This looks like nesting boxes to me…not chicken feeders?! Maybe the seller wasn’t an Aggie or maybe they were?! Too funny!
Yes, they are nesting boxes. And the seller was simply displaying those speakers. Weird combination, though, isn’t it?
Y’know… I’m a city girl, and even I could see this is not a “chicken feeder.” So maybe the speakers are to pipe in egg laying mood music. :-)
I don’t know, Vicki- I think the girls would rather have a jukebox!
OK..that made my day..truly funny! $175.00? HHHMMMMM…now I am THINKING!!!!!!!
It never ceases to amaze me what people get away with. Some fool will buy it! (Usually ladies from Islington, here). We don’t have those metal nest boxes in the UK, they seem very practical and anti-mite to me!
This may amuse…
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=uVvcD4Czx4Y&feature=related
…and is horribly familiar!
Wendy – the bottoms pop out for easy cleaning. Also, the roosts fold up – once in awhile it’s good to get them out of the way, or block off the boxes.
Tina should have those speakers to pipe in her back-up band……Then, again, a jukebox may be a better idea. Lay an egg, hear a song?
Wow $175. for a four seater, I wonder what I could get for my eight
seaters? I’m going to Disneyworld !
I was watching American Pickers last night and they were in an old barn that had like a 8 hole nest box. I was thinking to myself, I want that, I want that… They never mentioned it or pointed it out and it looked in good shape too.