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My sentiments exactly! It was well worth the read.

Nice idea.

Make it go away (snow)!

Yes, with your temps. Lately I can understand why 0 would feel balmy. Your chickies are spoiled they are lucky to be well taken care of. I too have been giving scratch a couple times per week lately....just in case. They appear content enough. Mine are still laying. I'm the go to person...

My phones going nuts this morning! Fairly certain it submitted too quickly. Hate when that happens. It's 14Friday here this morning and I don't like it. Mobile I hear your pain. Although I don't call it a warm up hehe. But you have been experience very low Temps.

There's some incredible information being passed about. In my own head it's simplistic, if I add heat, things dry out. I see it in my own home when it's humid. What do I tend to do to get rid of the humidity...turn on the heat. Mobius and Howard E explained it quite eloquently. It's...

Beekissed, fabulous explanation...as usual. Your example of ventilation echos what I have going on in my coops. The construction type of both are board and baton (if I recall hubby's words when preparing to build). The type of construction lends itself gaps between each board. Normally, with...

Had I to do my coops over again I would insist on a dirt floor. I/we thought it would be so convenient to be able to move the coops around, season dependent. Now we know, it's a challenge to move those big coops! In reality, we will probably never move those coops around. I especially like...

It's supposedly designed specifically for DL. Helps with the breakdown process. Since I have the hard floor, I figure I need all the help I can get. It actually has a milled flax seed texture to it. I especially like it because it's non toxic to my chickies. This morning I was sure to...

No, it is not zeolite. It is a mixture of all natural products. I want to say that molasses is one of the ingredients. I will check my bag at home and let you know. In appearance, it looks like a grain finely ground.

Beekissed: Thanks for the reminder. I don't know when or why I got so aggressive with the tossing. I will slow it down and revert back to using the pancake toss method.

Lazy gardener: the added leaves sufficed, fortunately. If, and I am tending to agree, (definately scratching my head with this concept) that all that is occurring is this "diaper" theory, the carbon matter (leaves) I suspect are now super saturated. At least the leaves that had come in...

Lazy gardener: Your last comment made me lol...literally. I suppose what I've been trying to say all along is this, we all have heard the saying, there's more than one way to skin a cat. There is textbook theory (which is valuable) but it's usually real life knowledge in any given situation...

Exactly my point. Textbooks are one the tools of the trade sort of speak, as I said, the foundation. Now how do you use what you learned. I think we all know people who are book smart but are unable to apply a lick of it. Textbook learning, if used correctly, gives you the easier path from...

If I may put in my 2 cents worth. Because I love a good debate I think we can all agree (perhaps) that what is learned in textbooks provides a great foundation of which all is built. I speak of my own schooled experiences in a wide array of technologies; what I learned from a textbook and...

The one thing we can always count on is Beekissed being thorough and precise The humidity levels in both coops this morning were hovering ~50% and temp. was mid 30's. Beekissed raised a great concern of mine of late. I noticed during that cold snap that the bottom layer of my deep litter...

Centrarchid: nice demonstration! I received my temperature/humidity gauge last week and have been monitoring the humidity in both coops. Overall, I am better than I thought which is always a good thing. This morning inside the pullet coop, the humidity was 62% with a temperature of 60F...

Hygrometer! Brilliant idea and one I didn't really think about! My humidity control measuring stick to date.....is there condensation on the windows. Nope, all must be good then. I quickly went on Amazon and purchased one for the pullet coop and one for the bachelor pad.