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Hey guys... back on page 24, I posted about building a more permanent covered pergola for my girls' run, and then promised to edit with pictures of it when I had the light to do so... And then we had an awful week... culminating in having to put our 11 year old dog, Ajax down... He just...

Hope you don't mind, I quoted the post I made in this thread a hundred years ago... but the husband and I just built this: ...for the north 64 square foot half of their 156 sq.ft. run. In this pic, it's resting on the wheelbarrow we finished building it on...I'll edit this post tomorrow...

10 hours did seem to be the minimum number of hours for a pullet to begin laying. If she hasn't started laying before the days are shorter than 10 hours in the fall, she won't lay until 8-10 days after the days get to be 10 hours again. Had a silver laced Wyandotte and an Easter egged this...

Really? Mine has been working flawlessly since I installed it last year around thanksgiving. The graph was me converting minutes to decimals so I could chart sunrise and sunset times in the same spreadsheet where I track my hen's productivity. I have the line set to a average the values so I...

I totally forgot to mention how I handle the water thing. I have a 3 gallon plastic waterer. Chickens don't drink when they are asleep. And if you are not using lights, they will sleep all night long. So... On the nights where the temps were forecast to dip below freezing for more than a...

Get a good thermometer/hygrometer so you can monitor conditions inside the coop. In the summer, I use sand as coop bedding. It's cool to the touch, and a good exfoliant for their feet... and easy to clean. But in the winter, it's too cold, and they hate it... So, I switch to wood pellets...