With all of the things that I got set up on the Chicken Truck there ended up only being a couple of things left before I can really say I'm done. After putting the hatch on the bed cover I moved the chickens into the truck but still needed to get the electricity flowing into the truck. As stated before I had to install an outdoor outlet to plug the two cars up to. This involved me taking a surplus outlet box I had laying around and bolting it to the tree that is between the two car coops. Now I had already buried an extension cord leading up to the Mustang Chicken Coupe to supply power to it. Since there's two cars now, I ended up taking the extension cord and routing the cord that was above the ground over to the tree and burying it under some gravel before cutting the plug end from it. I ran the cable end into the bottom of the box and wired it up to the outlet. In the future as I bring more gravel to the site the cable will be further buried. With this I was able to plug the two car coops to the outlet. With the plugs in place and the garden hose made up to supply water to the water bucket, the Chicken Truck was fully online. We had already put mulch in the bed, the cab floor and engine bay before throwing the chickens inside. I had already installed the heater and LED light bulb so all of those things were ready to go as well. Lastly we put the large feeder in the cab so the birds will be able to eat. Now I will probably end up installing another light fixture in the bed under the bed cover to make use of the other switch in the cab but then again I may just swap this over to a switch/outlet box and use the other outlet to plug up a circulation fan to move air between the cab and engine bay. Until then I will just roll with the current setup. On a lighter note, since the bad chicken coop was now vacant, I removed the gravity feed drinker cup watering setup and swapped it over to the coop that has a single duck in it. Since the duck was using a regular pan for water, putting the drinker cup setup will give the duck an automatic source of water on top of a bucket for her to play in. This little task was done pretty quick since all of the apparatus was set up. I moved the bucket to the top of the coop on the screened area near the door. I wire tied the drinker cup assembly to the side like I did on the other chicken coop and hooked the hose up from the drinker cup assembly to the hose barb under the bucket. Afterward I wire tied the hose to the mesh side to keep it out of the way. With that, the water setup for the duck was ready to go.
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