I searched around a little on the site but did not come up with what I am looking for.Has anyone here built their own disbudding box ?What size did you come up up with?And if you did build one have you used it and do you have any special features you built in it?Thanks
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Thanks a ton, Rachel! It's a continued experience, but I know DH will be happy to hear he gets to drill more holes... ;)
Here's a site that explains what she uses to "adjust" the box for different sized kids. http://kinne.net/disbbox.html
Then, in my search I came across a comment: "A friend said to take a barrel and cut holes for the legs and some supports for it to be stable and then when you are ready to disbud you just put their legs in the holes on the barrel and straddle them and they really cant go anywhere and its easier than the box type disbudding box. I am going to try and make the barrel type cause if they cant get the legs to help them they cant go anywhere. She said she hasn't ever had any problems with it. I have Nigi's, LM and soon Nubians so I guess I will need different types and places for holes in the barrel. Gonna give it a try. I have the head piece from Hoeggers and made my box but with Nigis its too big and with the LM they can almost get out so going to try this barrel as I have plenty around here. She said the smaller type barrel works better."
We just built one this weekend, my husband got the plans from the internet. I think I would've preferred to do it as we did when we built our stanchion. We measured our smallest doe and our tallest to figure sizes. With kids it would be a bit different, since they're so small. I think I'd measure my largest kid, even though you don't want the little ones backing out of it. I will fill in any extra space with towels when we use it next.