I used to be lately invited to go home and canine sitting for some pals of mine up in Fairbanks, Alaska and was reminded that additionally they have chickens I would want to look after. Evidently, I’m not a fan of chickens and their bizarre little dinosaur toes. I’ve a concern of them stemming approach again from childhood, so I made a decision that if I used to be going to face my concern head-on, it was going to be with enjoyable and humor.

So what higher approach to try this than making 3D printed arms for the chickens to put on?

First, I needed to catch one and…contact it and maintain it. Which was an journey all by itself, however then I needed to truly put the 3D printed arms on them.

“Woman” was variety sufficient to offer me about 8 seconds of video footage of herself carrying “armed rooster arms” earlier than she shook her head and flung them into the dust, however made positive to look fierce whereas she did have them on.

“Ruby” nearly appeared excited to muscle her approach into the coop and present her pals her new Hulk 3D printed arms after which chase them again out and across the pen.

All in all, it was a good way to recover from my concern of chickens and the remainder of my Alaska rooster adventures went off easily. We even had a dance get together and did the Rooster Dance collectively after I found 5 eggs had been laid sooner or later as an alternative of the standard 2-3!

Be sure you take a look at the video beneath to observe Woman and Ruby testing out their new 3D printed arms!

3D Printed Rooster Arms | Video

Head over to our Youtube channel to take a look at the video of Woman and Ruby carrying 3D printed arms! No chickens had been harmed within the making of this video, nonetheless, I’ll have had a mini coronary heart assault once I first needed to decide Woman up and felt her toes on my physique!

Making 3D Printed Arms for Chickens

I used to be tremendous excited to find that there have been fairly a couple of designs already created for 3D printed arms for chickens on Thingiverse! The toughest half was making an attempt to resolve which designs I needed to make!

I selected the Hulk arms design by Rene Gutierrez and used 3D Universe Terrafillum inexperienced PLA to 3D print them on my Ultimaker S3. They turned out completely!

I additionally selected “Armed Rooster Arms” from Max Forge on Thingiverse and determined upon the samurai sword and kitchen axe because the weapons of selection.

I printed all of them with the Ultimaker Powerful PLA in white as a result of I knew with the thinner arms they is likely to be extra prone to breaking whereas in my baggage on the way in which as much as Alaska and needed to ensure they survived the journey. I painted the sleeves and weapons with primary acrylic paint as I knew they’d not be used once more after the video was made.

I had a whole lot of enjoyable with this challenge although not fairly as a lot enjoyable as making customized seed muffins for my squirrel pals and throwing them a tea get together, however nonetheless!

Head to Thingiverse to see all the different enjoyable designs there are for 3D printed arms for chickens, and if in case you have made some too, please share your movies and images with us!

I for one, and really grateful that chickens don’t even have actual arms…