These limited options are both pretty terrible for the chooks, who I forgot to mention are debeaked as chicks for these reasons. While you can see that intensive systems don’t have much to recommend them except cheap eggs, it gets worse. The pathogen load in intensive animal production ...
Checking for fit with a paper version proved it’s value, as one of my measurements for the way cover screw holes was off by ~1mm, if I had made the bracket in aluminum first without checking I would have had to modify the bracket I had just made. More scrap aluminum (same .090″ ...