Clean Interior and Add Drainage Holes

right through the other side that serves a purpose okay I'll show you what that purpose is here in just a second so you've got a hole straight through the middle that's for hanging okay and then down in the bottom you're gonna need some drain holes because it's gonna rain and and weather and and stuffs gonna get in here and if you don't poke some holes in there you're gonna get rot in the bottom so you don't want rot in the bottom I do three holes and if you look this is a divot like a belly button it's kind of like any belly button and I go right around that any belly button with three holes evenly-spaced like a coconut kind of cool so that's how I make the birdhouse gourd now there's more steps to this than just making the gourd okay so we've got to make a stand and we're going to make all this stuff in a future video and we'll show you how we make all that but we've got to make a stand to put it up in the over and a fence post over on the other side of the farm so we're going to slide it down in the way we can remove it every year you're gonna need to clean these guys out even if you just shake it out you need to clean it out and you need to get a little bit of 1/10 water to bleach yep chlorine bleach and you want to clean them out and you want to spray in there and that's what that does is that kills all the mites that the birds might have brought in so if you think about it birds getting mites they're little critters that suck blood and you don't want your baby birds to have blood suckers all over them so you've got to keep them clean you got to clean them at least once a year at the end of the season okay so like December you start planning you start cleaning them that's your winter time project for your farm let's show you how we take it from this old ugly brown gourd to