Recent content by Hammond Egger

What a deal, the only thing that's ever listed for free on Craigslist here is moving boxes.

a $200.00 solar panel from Harbor Freight will operate about a half a light bulb. Unless you want to spend around a hundred grand forget solar for anything but a warm glow from a path light.

I'll be going on the tour.....but I won't be walking through any pans of bleach water.

Keep track of your expenses and figure out the true actual cost of your very first egg and you will understand.

I've used them for a shed. I think they would be totally adequate for a run.

Looks like a free range paradise behind the coop.

I'm going to try heavy pond liner over the part of my wire floor that isn't under the roosts.

Quote: From their website INSTRUCTIONS MODELS 1202 - 1250 - 1270 - 1266 INCUBATORS 110 VOLT 60-HZ 250 WATT MODELS 1222 -1254 INCUBATORS 220 VOLT 50-HZ 250 WATT I don't see a 1212 there.

No pic posted. I emailed the seller but haven't heard back yet. I'm in Tucson. http://tucson.craigslist.org/grd/2691917091.html

There is one for sale on Craigslist for $200.00 but I can't find a reference to it anywhere on the net. Anybody know anything about it? 300 egg capacity. I wonder if the seller meant 1202 instead of 1212.

It sells for $165.00 on Amazon.

and the other side of that coin is that the same questions being asked again keeps the board fresh and alive. The same old questions being asked by new members may get answered by another new member, which adds a new perspective, otherwise the board is nothing more than a stale database of...

I have about a hundred ideas. Here are the first four. 1 - put some hardware cloth over the windows. 2 - put a 2x4 roost up. 3 - put some sand or pine shavings on the floor 4 - put some chickens in it.

I ordered the book yesterday but I'm in Baja Arizona. I have no doubt that a three sided or fresh air coop would be adequate for most of the year but I'm concerned about the monsoon season when we get violent electrical storms with high winds and buckets and buckets of rain.

No self respecting leghorn hen would ever let a silkie roo........oh, never mind.