Recent content by Bald Bee Man

Maybe first thing you should ask yourself if you want your chickens for production or just what the lay naturally. Ours are production so we add light in the winter and once they slow way down around 2 years we replace. If you want them to lay naturally then no light needed.

I think you have a few steps here. 1. Getting electricity to your coop 2. Installing your lights safely within the coop, so the chickens cannot accidentally get entangled. 3. Timmers and times. Let's start with number 1 Running a long lightweight cord is not the best idea. We need more info on...

80 chickens on less than 1/2 acre, am I understanding that correct? How big will the run be for 80 chickens? That's one cool coop!!

Oh good lord, just enjoy the post, no one is demeaning the native people of Hawaii . Notice the, oh good lord, that was for grandma.. lol

One time I was at a property that had a Chicken House only had maybe 10,000 chickens but I could not hear a single sound that I was not that far from the building. I wondered then and I wonder now with your comment why do you think the chickens were so quiet?

I would go inline....

Since you have water inside the coop now how do you keep the standpipe and or spicket from freezing?

You might find my post interesting This link bottom of page 3 https://www.backyardchickens.com/threads/large-potable-water-tank-use.1335007/page-3#post-21825244

Everyone is correct, no worries, get the bees and have fun. Honey covered biscuits with eggs.. YUM

I've had silkies for 3 or 4 years here in indiana. I never got the memo they are not cold hardy, and fragile. Treat mine no different than our other hen's, they seem to be doing just fine.

I've tried what they're laying in now I just put pine needles in 2 days ago. Pine needles is way softer than straw I've use that in the past in the nest boxes and they love it not these particular flock. As far as moving the Box I've taken the box out they immediately laid where the box was so I...

All summer new flock late spring I have tried fake eggs , soft pine needles in the rollaway . The money I paid it's frustrating

To be honest I had never heard of the flooring until about two hours before the post. I have a rollaway nest box that I cannot get them to use. Then lay in a box in the corner and only dirty when wet outside. I saw the flooring and thought the hard floor might get them to move into the nest box...

I previously said Pine not Cedar I'm not sure where you thought said Cedar

Shavings under would help the poop dry and kinda absorb. The flooring would keep them from walking in Poop in the coop. Cleaner floor SHOULD give me cleaner eggs ... If anyone has ever worked fastfood, and are familiar with bun trays that buns are deliverd in. I have some of those and they would...