One Man's Trash

....is another man's treasure.

This is some of the 'trash' that arrived in a trailer the other day. It all started because we needed to get our house cow, Bella, to the bull. We needed a trailer to get her there, and so decided to hire one, and thought maybe we could get a deal as we only needed it for a short while. As it happened the trailer was full of rubbish at the owners house and if Mark would take it to the dump and pay for the cost of dumping it he could have it for the day. Yea, sure Mark says.

Now, as it happens we use guinea pigs to keep the grass down in and around the garden....

and just before Christmas we decided we needed to increase production on the guinea pig front so we put a male in with our 3 females and ta da.........

There are 11 babies altogether

So we have been on the look out for materials for more cages. We've been checking out the second hand building centres and the dump shops but haven't found anything suitable. But in one afternoon we get a trailer for nothing and keep some good resources from going into land fill, the cow to the bull, and in the pile of trash, this guinea pig cage....

Here it is after a few repairs. It needed a little house and wire underneath.

....and here it is with guinea pigs at work keeping the grass down between the rows!

But not only that, in the pile of trash is a bird aviary, some chicken wire, some tin, another cage, a dog kennel and some really great shelving. When Mark took the trailer back he mentioned the shelving and the guy says there's more and he can have it for a carton of beer!.
Do you ever have those sort of days when everything just clicks into place!