Taking out a wall~ and putting up a room divider~

2012Coleman wrote:
DutchmenSport - that's just awesome. I thought chickens lived longer.

X2 Really cool!

DutchmenSport - that's just awesome. I thought chickens lived longer.

tbred wrote:
...Okay, am I the only one wondering how a chicken works out in a trailer? Don't get me wrong Dutchmen, I have a few hens myself but can't quite envision taking them camping :@

OK, I'll go off topic here and try to answer your question.

When my daughter was about 10, she wanted a pet chicken. She used the excuse she wanted to join 4-H. So we ended up getting this little chick. We had no clue what (it) would turn out to be. You can't tell their breed and you definitely can't tell their sex either until it starts crowing, or not crowing.



Well, this chicken became the "pampered checken. When she was little she was in a bird cage. The bird cage turned into a dog kennel. The dog kennel turned into a dog run (chain link fence type), I built a cover over it. But in the winter, she was in the house. I used a big horse water trough from TSC and kept it in the mud room between the house and garage. She lived in the trough with the rabbit.

She ate at the table with us. She went in the bath tub with my kids (and me a few times too). She ate everything we ate, she went every where we went.

She grew into a fine lady, and started laying some mighty fine eggs too.



She did finally make it to the Indiana State Fair where she won 4th for Golden Lace Wyndott.

She went swimming with us, rode bicycles with us, she'd sit on my shoulder and we'd go for walks, we even took her to Dairy Queen (sat outside).

We carried her in a pet taxie when traveling. We put a cat harness on her, over he neck and under her wings and then attached a leash. I give her 20 feet of rope and let her scratch around the campsites, wherever we were at.

Mostly she'd want to sit on a low hanging tree branch near us and just sit and roost. She was very affectionate, very smart, very lovable. You'd never expect this from a chicken, but she really was much better than a dog (no barking, and no crowing!)

We put a premie diaper on her and let her free range in the hosue. We did this with our rabbit too. If she traveled with us outside the pet taxie, we always put a diaper on her.

She'd watch television, bump and and down to country music (really), she was a great watch dog. When she went into a panic, she'd flutter around. She was a good a watch-dog as our, dog nothing slipped by her.

She lived just a few days shy of her 5th (hatching), (birthday)? We did have a few other chickens after that, but they just never made the grade after her. "Shake" and "Bake" ended up go to my in-laws far because "Shake" started crowing and the city zoning officer pinged us for breaking the noise ordinance when he'd start crowing at 5:00 am! (really).

"Lucy" and "Ethel" (they were black silkies). Ethel had a head trauma which retarted her. Lucy was her companion and would help her around. But we left them outside in their pin one night and "Ethel" didn't know how to get back into her roost and literally died of exposure. Lucy went into deep mourning. That's when we got her "Shake" and "Bake" as baby chicks. She took right to them and she became quite the little mother, until "Shake" discovered he was a male and reached puberty, and then the crowing started too.

"Lucy" lived for about 6 years. She was old, frail, and wobbly. She just laid down in the grass one day and died. We were out of the chicken business then.

Freckles in her diaper:



Freckles 4th birthday:

GWolfe wrote:
When I wanted to remove part of the upper bunk in my Clipper I contacted Coachmen and explained what I wanted to do, they were very helpful and told me what I could and couldn't cut into. Maybe if you find a floor plan you like you could contact the manufacturer and see what changes you could make.

I would agree with this. My wife and I are looking for a trailer without the floor to ceiling wardrobes by the bed. We don't want to feel like we are sleeping in a box. A number of mfg we were looking at used those cabinets as part of the structure of the trailer and therefore we couldn't omit them.

I'm not saying a wall can't be removed. I would just check with the mfg first.

When I wanted to remove part of the upper bunk in my Clipper I contacted Coachmen and explained what I wanted to do, they were very helpful and told me what I could and couldn't cut into. Maybe if you find a floor plan you like you could contact the manufacturer and see what changes you could make.

Hen? Bird?

I had a friend who had a chicken they raised from a chick, probably
an Easter chick, and it was quite tame and did fine in a cage when
they took it with them to visit Grandma.....

Not that different from the parrots, I think.

You take your **** camping?



Edit - LOL What is the other word for chicken?

DutchmenSport wrote:
We purchased our 2006 Keystone Springdale new. Traded it a couple years ago. One feature that attracted us to this camper was because of the open bunks in the back of the camper. We no longer had kids, but we wanted the bunks for storage... more specifically for our 3 birds, rabbit, chicken, and cat. The cat loved laying beside the bird cages and just dreaming of lunch!

Here's some photos. I'm sure if you search around you may find something similar to this:







No slides though:

FYI: This is our back yard.

Okay, am I the only one wondering how a chicken works out in a trailer? Don't get me wrong Dutchmen, I have a few hens myself but can't quite envision taking them camping :@

More than likely you can just take out the wall holding up the bunks and put in a post and horizontal support for the bunks which will give you the openess you desire.
Good luck.

Thank you for the info. We don't have the Zeppelin any lo0nger, so I
am looking for something that will work, but most TTs in the Denver area that look big enough have the bunks.
I just wanted a plan if we have to get one.

I appreciate the info on the walls, it doesn't sound to difficult if we can't find the open bunks.

I apologize for not updating my signature, had some problems with that.