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Finally putting a lid on my 15x20-ish, trapezoid-shaped run! Naturally, I am looking into the cheapest/fastest/most efficient + secure/least hassle method, and being a realist I'm quite willing to compromise on 1 or more facets if that's what it takes. I already bought a 1" square, 25' x 25'...

I don't think anyone's 100% sure. Might be that warm water evaporates faster than cool water, so there's another cooling mechanism at work on the warm water. Evaporation has a cooling effect, not to mention, the slight volume loss (as molecules depart in gaseous form) means there's less water...

On warming stones: Ditto on ^...wet rock + heat = Kablammo! Especially vesicular rocks (anything w significant void spaces), such as basalt w airbubbles...double-Kablammo! Otherwise it's a great idea. I'd just rotate through several batches of stones, allowing each batch to dry btwn heating...

I really wish I'd had the time to establish a consistent coop-up routine, but even so, my garden's suffered too greatly from their foraging for me to perpetuate their free-range privileges. Right now, I'm struggling to settle on the right run topper material. I don't trust most of the less...

Good info, thanks! Returned home from work yesterday to find the flock scattered all over the place. Two had already returned on their own. I got two more in yesterday by placing a plank parallel to the fence, angled up, in the corner such that they followed the fenceline, walked up the...

I've got 7 birds who, once they've flown across my 4' wire fence, will spend days (if you allow them) running back and forth along the fenceline. It was never more than an episodic problem until last week, but now they're spending more time pacing than they are foraging, and are ranging ever...

Our January visitor is becoming a resident: all the neighbors love him, our chickens tolerate him, our rooster is totally subdued (sub-dude?), local cats are simultaneously terrified/fascinated and life in general seems more colorful this Spring! I've already cleared a small dogrun (~20x10')...

That was me about 4 months ago. Our guy has stayed, roosting in our elm tree, and I'm about to buy a couple of peahens to keep him around. I'd suggest not feeding him regularly unless you also anticipate 'adopting' him (it's really more like he's adopted us!), but then again, without potential...

I hope I don't sound too critical...it's great to think big! However, the realities of cost and time might make you wish you'd started smaller, or made more deliberate decisions to squeeze every square inch (or w guineas, cubic inch) of space into practical use. 1. What's the scale on your...

First off, apologies if you've been following my dilemma in the peafowl section. It's morphed into a more guineafowl-centric issue, and thought it'd be more appropriate over here... I'm about to order 3-4 peachicks and 12 guinea keets, but I'm still at a loss as to how I should integrate all...

UPDATE! Our pal (still need to name the guy) is still hanging around. He spends much of the day in and around our chickenrun, and the rest of the time he's in/atop our adjacent neighbor's property. So far, every one of my neighbors claims to like him. He has begun calling, and seems to be...

I live in Albuquerque, NM, elev 5000'. We did 15 of McMurray's Cornish X last summer: 2 were found dead, on different days, between wks 8-10. A 3rd one died in wk 10 as I was feeding them. Poor little guy had a heart attack while waddling towards the feeder. Only two more days before...

My rule of thumb: if it smells and tastes funky, and there's no James Brown playing in the background, it's prolly best to not imbibe.

Good luck, keep us posted!

Cheesecloth breaks down quickly, and feeds microbes: my friend tried using it as a stop-gap measure to fix her aquarium filter until the petstore got its next shipment. In less than a week her tank was filled with cotton fibers, following week these became gooey bacterial mats, and within two...

UPDATE: Gonna try 2lbs of this... http://www.groworganic.com/omega-3-chicken-forage-blend-irrigated.html and 2lbs of this... http://www.groworganic.com/alkali-pasture-mix-irrigated.html Would you blend the two before spreading to maximize diversity, or maybe split the lot in half and do a...

Jack, Hawgon: I think the coffee filter everyone's mentioning is something akin to this...

A few things to consider: 1. Shingled or tarred roof would contribute asphalt compounds and particulates to the water. 2. The first few gallons of runoff in every rain event will be pretty nasty. I'd research 'first rain separator' and 'first flush' ideas: usually consisting of just a t, a...

An afternoon of searches hasn't revealed any earthshattering new ideas, so I thought I might start a new thread here! I want to seed my 'orchard' run with yum-yums, and am looking for plants that'd be most ideal to my particular setting. I've got a 15 x 50' summer run planted with several...

Could be anise or fennel seed.