Posts by Egghead_Jr

That is a huge run. Very nice. Your limiting factor is of course the coop size. If you are of the management style of not heating, or putting food and water in coop or locking chickens in there during days then you could have up to six...

With a cage it only took our broody two days to break. She'd been broody for two weeks and I'd given up hope our ordered eggs would show up in time so gave a go at breaking her. Was much easier than anticipated.

The forums here each have informative stickies at the top of main forum pages. For example click the main heading of "Incubating and Hatching" then at top of the page you'll see informative sticky thread.   Here is a great...

Chickens have very little defense against predators. Some added lighting at night wont make a bit of difference. Real protection is to close up the coop every night, let chickens out every morning.   The first few years we had...

The humidity does rise as they hatch. With 7 eggs it wont be too bad as all 7 likely wont be hatching at once.   Some don't touch the incubator at all as chicks are hatching and I'm one of those that quickly opens lid now and...

The easiest and best protection is to close the coop door every night.

I use an oil deck stain/toner for exterior. Quick and easy to apply, good longevity (numbers of years vary to sun exposure) and reapplication is simple. Hose off dirt and reapply when dry.   Spar varnishes (marine coatings)...

I only use household bulbs, actually had to buy incandescent as our house uses energy efficient bulbs that don't put out much heat. Never had a problem with white light and brood in large tote with screen on top.

I only use 2 to 2.5 sqft per bird in coop. I don't heat the coop or have food and water in there. The layer box is attached and coop only has roosts in it and pine shavings. This is my management style and my cold hardy birds are...

Quote: Originally Posted by chickadoodles  I do appreciate everyone's help so much! I am very excited that I can feed them all grower feed so I won't have to worry about the younger ones getting to much calcium! I...