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  1. ScottandSam

    Our Silkies Dr. Seuss style house (a building thread)

    Here's how it stands in 2023. Hoping to get all walls done this year and started on the roof.
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    Our Silkies Dr. Seuss style house (a building thread)

    Well I'm kind of embarrassed now after looking that it's been under construction for 6 years but life gets ahead of you sometimes. It's still in progress got a little more siding up but still got to finish a few walls not even sure when I'm going to get more time to work on it got a new job...
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    Our Silkies Dr. Seuss style house (a building thread)

    Your absolutely right. Bad thing was that was a brand new blade put on Sunday morning. I cut three med size logs and hit nails right off the bat on the 4th. I couldn't find anyone close that would sharpen the 16 blades I have. So we bought blades from a woodmizer dealer a hour and a half...
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    Our Silkies Dr. Seuss style house (a building thread)

    It would if I was cutting for someone else but just a bummer for us. Scott
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    Our Silkies Dr. Seuss style house (a building thread)

    So I started the day cutting lumber for a chicken tractor. Hit six nails in a log and gave up cutting any more till I could get new band blades. I had enough lumber to build a back wall on the chicken tractor.Then I still had a lot of 4x4 and 2x4 cut and sitting so at 1pm I shifted gears to the...
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    First, Second, Third and on and on Incubator hatch help appreciated

    Well we took a peak last night. All I can say is wow. Shipping is extremely hard on eggs. We have 28 blue and green eggs. And we candle all of them and put back all of them. Nothing so far but health looking 9 day old eggs. 100% fertility. Scott
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    Comment by 'ScottandSam' in article 'Incubation Humidity'

    Excellent article and thank so much for all your wisdom helping us in our hatching adventures. Scott
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    Candling Eggs

    Sam and I work as a team. I usually have camera on phone pulled up and I lift the lid and write notes on each egg. Sam grabs the egg out and candles it, I close lid then notes, photo and we go one to the next. We did that along with posting on here during the first few hatches and, we learned a...
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    First, Second, Third and on and on Incubator hatch help appreciated

    Being spring here we finally found out our sex of out Toulouse geese. Turns out our 1st pair are 2 boys. Our second 2, one buff is Male and I tuffed Toulouse is a female. So finally after 2 years we started getting some geese eggs. The first 2 went on out counter for 2 weeks until we found a...
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    Incubating against the odds...

    Yes I have found ,and I'm sure I'm not the first too, the airsacks will grow with age. Heated or not.. Scott
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    First, Second, Third and on and on Incubator hatch help appreciated

    Well with a welsummer roster and a FBCM roster running around and hatching a few chicks under a hen. We decided to pull all our blue and olive colored eggs and............................................ ...... Pack the incubator for a olive egger hatch. Curious as to what they'll look...
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    Are they safe to eat?

    We get cracked Eggs sometimes and sometimes really dirty eggs. I know what people say but a lot of times I simply pick them up and throw them the girls. They will rush it (they free range). They'll eat all of it and what they don't the 2 lgd will. I'll continue to do this until we see a problem...
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    Talk to me about CHICKEN POOP!

    X2 dlm. We Cleaned out weekly the 1st year and a half to keep smell down. Last 6 months we have a nice deep litter bed. No smell and some really nice looking dirt @4"deep under the top 8" of leaves,mulch,hay, mixture. We also have nice dirt were piled the clean out the first year and a half in...
  14. ScottandSam

    Woods coop build in process - and questions!

    Nice we following along . We are still in planning stages but 10x16 was one footprint I played around with.
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    Woods Open Air Coop Design - Amish Built

    We have both amish and mennonite in our area. We have used one amish crew that used power tools off there property. In fact there driver store the trailer at a local convenient store. The framed and dried in our house and addition. There fast and very reasonable. But then there are other that...
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    Is Blackjack 57 safe?

    I have not used it on concrete yet. But will be using it on post below grade and cops in future builds. We coateda pressure treated plywood on the floor and 3' up the walls. Were on year three now and last time I cleaned it out before we went DLM. I used a large drywall knife and scraped the...
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    Woods Open Air Coop Design - Amish Built

    I've had good luck setting building on blocks. I did screw in some beefy. Dog stakes that screw in the ground then strung galvanised strap threw them and screwed it to the floor joist.
  18. ScottandSam

    Woods Open Air Coop Design - Amish Built

    Even with fresher cut tongue and groove I would still use batten on it. It will open up.
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