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Hey! This big guy in a big diesel pickup came by the house and was talking to the dog catcher (who was parked out in front of my house for some odd reason or other.) Steve overheard him telling the dog catcher he had a big cage and did the dog catcher want it? DC declined but Steve said "Let me get my wife!"

So Steve hollers at me and I come running and sure enough, this guy had a gigantic cage in the back of his truck! Shoot, I'll take it!

So the guy hauls the thing out and it's about my heighth and heavy! Apparently he kept ferrets in it.

Now I wanna stop right here and declare that after getting a whiff of this cage I can determine that I will NEVER own a ferret. Lord have mercy, it stunk worse than sewer. My chickens have a nice barnyard scent to them, imo...but this ferret cage absolutely stank. I left it out in the back yard for two rain storms before I'd even touch it.

Anyway, the cage was actually two cages one on top of the other and there was no floor...just a tall cage with no floor. It had two access doors in the front.

So I took the sides and back off the bottom cage, swung the front under to make a new "top" and now the cage has an access in the front and an access on top. It's a complete cage with what used to be the top is now the bottom. I'm pretty proud...it was a bit of an effort and I pinched my finger pretty good.

I figure when we go to move I can put the chickens in it to transport them and I can also raise meat chickens in it if this experiment turns out ok.