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    DIY Thread - Let's see your "Inventions".

    I love your hoop house A.T. Hagan! I don't know how I missed this when I read all the pages in this entire thread. Can you explain all the different feeds you have in those cans? I am totally interested.
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    DIY Thread - Let's see your "Inventions".

    Great system DennyMeyrand! What a great way to collect water and I use the water level indicators too. My husband showed me how they work and the concept is super simple. Our rainy season hasn't started yet and my barrels are already set up but I think I will add a sediment bucket like you...
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    DIY Thread - Let's see your "Inventions".

    We used to have goats and there was no way this would have worked with them around. They are now gone though. I wanted to say that with our setup, we don't leave the water on. I just turn it on, feed everyone and turn it off. It just takes a few minutes. In fact, we only use the water from...
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    DIY Thread - Let's see your "Inventions".

    Here is another idea that I "modified." I saw this feeder somewhere on BYC but I can't find the thread but here is the YouTube video: I thought what a great idea. But what is that lever? The BYC thread showed a picture of the lever and I was trying to think of what it looked like "to...
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    DIY Thread - Let's see your "Inventions".

    Here is my promised waterer that we use for our ducks, chickens and rabbits. Warning, this is a long post. Please keep in mind that this is "Stephanie construction", meaning nothing fancy but it works. We already have the nipple waterers around the yard and with our rabbit colonies but I...
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    DIY Thread - Let's see your "Inventions".

    Wow! I just read all 99 pages of this thread over the past 4 days. What great ideas! I am definitely going to copy some of them. This weekend, I will take pictures of my watering system for my chickens, ducks and rabbits. It is one system and it provides water to all my animals and it...
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    Frugal Ques Automatic Waterer

    Automatic Waterer Complexity: Easy! Cost: it didn't cost us anything because we already had all the materials but I have included what I think it might cost to buy) Materials needed: 2 five gallon buckets ($3 each at Home Depot or $1 each on Craigslist) 1 small aquarium pump ($5) drill (or any...
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    meat rabbits

    We raise our rabbits in a colony and would never do cages. In our experience, it is much, much easier to feed them, provide them water and we spend time with them. Just a few minutes each day, we pet most of the rabbits while they are eating and they are not skittish. We do not separate the...
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    whats the best type of duck??

    We are looking for ducks too. We have other animals (goats, chicken, rabbits, quail, guinea pigs). We are thinking of muscovies for fly control this summer. Are all ducks good for fly/bug control or are muscovies just much better at it? Also I just read a thread on bantam ducks. Is the...
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    Show me your quail pens!!!

    pookiegoldman - I LOVE your quail pen. Great arrangement. Do you have any problems with the quail and bantams being that close regarding allergic reactions or anything like that? We have a separate pen for our bantams and our quail but it would be great to put them together so that I can get...
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    rabbits and chickens/duck pen? *added pics*

    I like your arrangement. I raise rabbits in a colony arrangement also and they are much happier animals. I have found that my rabbits are much more active in the evenings and early mornings. During the day, they are just lounging around. Are your rabbits like that? Do your chickens have a...
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    BYC Contest - Waterers & Feeders - Win $20 Store Gift Cert. Ended

    Here is our submission for our waterer. https://www.backyardchickens.com/web/viewblog.php?id=45977-automatic-waterer
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    me and my dad made a quail pen

    Very good job! Plenty of space for the birds too.
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    Switching coturnix from multiple small pens to a large aviary. Tips?

    We have about a 60% hatch rate. Our quail also lay their eggs in the tufts of grass around the aviary. The are nice little piles of eggs. Once our quail picked a spot near the edge of the aviary and their eggs were being eaten by the crows! We didn't even know that crows ate eggs. It...
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    Switching coturnix from multiple small pens to a large aviary. Tips?

    One more thing ... we also found that we needed less males in a aviary setting. The 4:1 ratio worked good in cages but in the aviary we found that when one male attempted to mate with a hen, then the other males would line up for the same hen. It was pretty bad for the hens so we now have a...
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    Switching coturnix from multiple small pens to a large aviary. Tips?

    What I have found is since quail naturally scratch when eating, I just occasionally put down sawdust piles in various places of the aviary. Then I just fling raw sunflower seeds or millet seed throughout the aviary and they love it! They scratch any poop lying around right into the sawdust and...
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    Is this a good way to process?

    I will be using this method from now on. Our current method isn't bad but this is much easier and faster. I love learning new things.
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    Show me your quail pens!!!

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    Show me your quail pens!!!

    I am attempting to do more than one pic at a time:
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    Show me your quail pens!!!

    Ignore the messy yard In the background, you can see our old setup.
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