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Building My Widowhood Boxes i have been requested by a young fancier who would like me to show him step by step instuctions on how im building my boxes as he will be doing this shortly . Please note these boxes are not as standard widowhood boxes as turned 90'degrees to suit myself and are 4 inch smaller than standard sized widowhood boxes  as a sheets of chipboard is 8 FT X 4 FT so easier to work with half a sheet cutting down on overall costs .Please do not post on this board till i have completed the boxes , many thanks Mark

im off Monday to go and get wood yard to cut my wood to size then when its delivered i will assemble , and take pictures as i go along as requested

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im off Monday to go and get wood yard to cut my wood to size then when its delivered i will assemble , and take pictures as i go along as requested

there you go guys..oldyellow is a specialist in wood as he is in racing pigeons..welldone mark m8...

the sheet cutting plans were taken in this morning , the wood cost £102.17    £3.20 of that was to have it cut , now a pack of jigsaw blades would be double and the time to cut down would be a couple of days so money well spent . Wood should arrive tomorrow morning , bang there goes my sleep in

how many boxes will that make mark.?

ill have  16  widowhood boxes ( 2 ft x 14 inch ) rember the back wall has already been lined with chipboard  i could get another 2 rows in bottom creating another 12 boxes but im going to use this as storage space , and wouldnt like to over crowd my birds ,  the days of bending over are nearly over lol

oky doky.. have you already got the black blocks and the plastic fronts?

no i aint at that stage yet ill build the boxes then ill get the fronts then the nest box floor grills as i dont want to damage anything as room will be at a shortage my hen loft is not done either and the amount of stuff in there is incredible , will have to move all my corn out of the widowhood loft today as thats where i have stored my last supply. then ill take a few pictures of the lined wall and floor to add to this post.

pic taken early on this year will  update it , traps both in middle now and all doors have vents on

wood came at 7 am this morning had to be raining but was well covered and dry will make a start after the school run and taking our lass to town

good stuff