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    Artificial coop lighting, show your setups

    I use a photocell and two red florescent "party bulbs". Comes on at dark and goes off at daybreak. Works good and trouble free. A wall switch and two bulb fixture on the ceiling for when I need it for white light.
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    chicken proofing 3' fence

    I too have a 4' fence and have problems with 4 or 5 chickens getting out. I read on here that chickens need a target to land on and don't just fly over the fence in one bound. I watched them and found that they would fly to the top rail and then to the ground. So I installed some additional 2x4...
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    How to attach Hardware cloth?

    I used and highly recommend staples.......but not the household staple gun ones.....I bought an air compressor from Home Depot and it came with three guns....one of them being a stapler. I bought three quarter inch staples and used them wherever I installed wire cloth screening. Also used 1x2...
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    Dirt floor vs. raised wooden floor coop construction

    I have a plywood floor off the ground on concrete pier blocks from Home Depot.....but I wish I would have gone higher. Nonetheless, I used OSB for the floor painted with porch paint, two coats on both sides. I use a roost on one side of the house and nest boxes on the other side, feed storage on...
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    Manure box design for a moveable A frame chicken ark

    I can't tell by the pics if you have enough room...but if you can put chicken wire under it so they poop into a closed in area...and put a slide in box under it, with about four inches of wood shavings, it would collect the poop and once in a while, just skim it off of the top of the shavings. I...
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    I HATE installing Hardware Cloth!!! HELP!

    I too have had battles with hardware cloth. I learned after building my first coop....build on the ground, paint first, install hardware cloth and then assemble! Makes a neater job, don't get paint all over the wire and hinges, etc. I just finished constructing a combination quail/bantam...
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    Tired of pine shavings.

    You can also try a quail waterer base....it doesn't gather as much stuff as the regular waterer. Of course, mine is elevated on a piece of scrap 2x4 also. Kurt
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    best way to lock down an l.g

    What works for me with an LG still air...I use decorative stones for heat sinks on the space surrounding the water channels....on day 18 is lockdown. Add a few sponges and still use only one plug...humidity should go to about 60-65%. They can hatch anywhere from day 19 to day 25. Good luck. Kurt
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    hatching tray ???

    I use cheese cloth to line the wire floor...as per another tip on this site. And it works great for me. Just chunk it after the hatch. Clean up is much easier. And it allows the normal air flow. Curt
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    Controlling temp fluctuations?

    As I posted about a month and a half ago, I have a LG still air bator. I'm a retiree from a chemical plant and for years all we heard from upper management and engineers is, make what you have work. Sooooo.... I put decorative stones I got at the dollar store in the empty spaces surrounding the...
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    Temp in incubator won't stablize help

    I have an LG still air...yeah, I know. But I had temp fluctuation problems until I filled the cavities surrounding the water channels with decorative stones as heat sinks. Since then it's steady as a rock. Try it and see if it steadies out yours. A buck a bag at Dollar Tree. Kurt
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    Spring cleaned the coop today. Shallow litter method

    I use the deep litter method on the floor of my coop and even more under their roost....the poop box under their roost is closed in with chicken wire and accessible through an outside door so once a year I can shovel out the top layer of poop, put it in bags and give it to a friend for his rose...
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    Wasps are swarming already. How do you deal with them?

    I mix up water and lemon scented Joy in a small hand pump up sprayer I got at wally world....spray the eaves of everything, which seems to be their favorite spots around here. They don't like the stuff and won't build their nests there. And if they do happen to build one, I just spray their...
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    Water turns green

    I use ACV and have no more problem with algae....and I live in the deep south. The birds don't seem to mind it. Kurt
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    Disaster in the Brooder- Averted! a warning...

    This is a pic of the setup in my outside brooder...two 250 watt infrared lamps controlled by a thermostat...the thermostat comes from a burned out electric heater and works great...notice the holes drilled in the box the thermostat is mounted into for it to sense temps better. I've brooded 50...
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