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I have a 40w bulb we use, with a plastic waterer, I regular cookie tin, also was given the really deep cookie tin several christmas ago at work from sam's. It made the best heater because it got the water cups farther out of the shavings- we added cinder blocks to raise the height of the one...

I went to a thrift store and bought a lamp with the light base we wanted. Spent $2.00 9 years ago, then did the same thing 4 years ago when we added another waterer. My hubby also caulked around any openings he made, I think that's why mine have lasted so well.

My DH made my cookie tin heater and it requires a 40w bulb base incandescent. I found some on amazon I think will work, just checking on what anyone else uses in theirs? wattage, or type of heat...

we use 55 gal drums and a old unworking freezer. hubby removed motor and used hardware cloth to keep them from nesting there. it works amazing, we store the feed about 3/4 full and store the feeders in at night.

Hi MaryZoe, You might have already dealt with your mites, we are at the end of treating a 50 bird flock. We mixed in a 1 gallon sprayer, left the flock outside at dusk. Let some into the barn before the coop door, which was shut. I stood ready with the sprayer, husband set a hen backwards to me...

Look up how bee keepers set up their electric fencing for bears. it is pretty different than I would think to do. Do not leave any feed in the coop, that is really what it is after, the chickens/eggs are a side note. Be sure to store all the feed in metal containers to control the smell, I would...

Remember* in addition to free choice feed, once your chicks are a 1 to 2 weeks old, add chick grit. that's like adding teeth, their food is more broken down, becoming more digestible and saving you money because the feed is actually used better. Then, as they age you will change them to granite...

So, I put two golf balls from our nest boxes, under the roost where the snake has been stealing eggs. The golf balls are gone... We are going to put out poison, that's only poison for the first ingestion, snake b gone, and bird netting. Our newest neighbors are clearing and bring up the dogs...

caught the rat snake with the chick half in its mouth.

The irish spring did not bother mine

what snake repellent? how did you put it out so the hens left it alone?

We didn't kill the first one that ate 3 chicks-have no Idea how it got into a metal brooder with only vent holes, my husband is going to cover those with hardware cloth-never been a problem for 5+ years. We drove it 20 miles away into an overgrown field. Today, it's friend is in the actually...

I'm saying give fresh cool water, but don't change their body temp so much that it shoots up afterwards Give deep shade, cool water, I have a fan in the coop. save frozen treats for when the temps are going down for the day.

Always remember that chicken heat and cool with the day. If you give them something that lowers their body temp...then it shoots back up- it will cause problems. Give cool water, deep shade--as much as you can, you can water their feed, shallow pans with a bricks to walk across to cool, and...

I'm trying a new feed and need feed back on ingredients: Country roads layer pellets: Ingredients are as follows: Processed Grain By-Products, Grain Products, Calcium Carbonate, Plant Protein Products, Salt, Propionic Acid (a preservative), Dried Trichoderma reesei Fermentation Product, Choline...

I just bought a used only 3x magicfly incubator to try my first hatch. I got everything-- but directions/ user manual. Any avail online? I have tried to find myself...if some sweet soul would send me a line or copy the book I will be in your debt.

This has been used 3 times when I bought it... magicfly 12 count auto. no manual of any kind. can't seem to locate online. any links from anybody please?

if anyone else has that problem...try an inverter hooked to a car battery. you may need to start the car every 2 hours for a bit otherwise works well. I used it in a car in the summer to run a heating pad on day old chicks for almost three hours until we got them home. the chicks were quite toasty.

So sorry for your loss. It could be a month before they begin to lay just under normal moved to a new farm reaction. With the stress they were under it could be longer, depending on the physical condition and how long it takes to get to a place of healing it might be after the equinox.