Nothing that I know of, but someone on here was saying that they had changed brooder styles and I just said that my local one has not changed styles so it may be a regional thing rather than a company wide change.
I just got this weird one that bounced across the screen and parked in the middle:
I tried to get the URL off of it, but by the time I got the screenshot it had vanished
No problem, give me a bit, this week is going to be a little nuts for the rest of the week but after that I should be able to work on it fairly steady.
Hey @Steven Mazzo check out this PDF and see if it looks like what you want before I spend a lot of time working on this. I just did the first page for now.
Not at all, but MOST chickens (obviously not all) aren't very good on the internet, that they can navigate a forum better than a significant number of humans is impressive
I started my Tomato and Pepper seeds yesterday. Those and 4 scallions I felt bad for and potted are the only things I'm working on so far.. well, I do have my onions, but they are outside and will probably wait a while yet before they sprout.
You were concerned about them getting too hot though when I first suggested the greenhouse, now you are saying you couldn't keep them to 30-40 degrees because they would be much colder than that. It just seems that as long as they don't get above 40 that every degree warmer that you can get them...
I did some googling (I know, not the best source sometimes, but what can you do) and it seems like you want to keep them from 30-40 degrees all winter for optimum cluster and minimum reserves being consumed. If the hypothetical greenhouse had ridge vents that would open at 35 degrees in the...
Couldn't they just re-cluster when it cools down again? Isn't that what they do anyway when the weather does that stupid thing it does around here where it bounces back and forth between freezing and 70 all winter? I know you are colder in general, but seems to me from the conversation on this...
I wonder if you could drop an unheated greenhouse around the hives once they go inside for the winter which would keep the worst of the cold off of them but shouldn't warm them up too much. You could potentially leave feeders out for them in the greenhouse on the chance that they have a warm day...
Possibly, I'm just going from the info on this thread. Where I am we get a week below freezing at a time max and usually 15-20 at night is as cold as we get so I don't know any weird northern climate issues.