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Came home last night to my little newborn Silkie chick laying dead in the brooder. He was born about a week ago and was doing great. When I got home last night noticed that my heat lamp must have burned out and must have happened early in the day because all the bedding was very cold. I...

No, that's the Chicken Coop, two story Chicken Coop I should say. The Duck Coop is to the right of the chicken run that you see there.

We recently moved our ducks outside. They used to be in the lower section of our coop with the new chickens that we got at the same time as the 2 ducks. We built them a nice little area right next to the chicken run. Put in a nice house for them with lots of straw in it. This was about 2...

What I have found with the Vertical nipples is that if they leak there is a good chance that you have screwed them in to tight. They should be screwed in to just beginning to be tight. If you over screw them the little gasket will fold and bend or possibly break and that is what the leak is...

We redesigned a old playhouse that we had at our farm. Kept the exterior walls of it but added windows, the cupula and other items on it. This is the view of it from our back porch. We originally got 11 chickens from some friends of ours from South Dakota, however fell in love with them...

Nope, the run area is completely covered by welded wire fencing. Just took these pictures before that was done.

I found the old "cupala" in a shed and had to use it on the coop as ventilation

Just wanted to say hello to the community. My name is Jason Allen and my wife Melissa just moved to her farm where she grew up at back in November of 2016. The farm is located in Jordan, Minnesota just outside the Twin Cities metro area. She wanted animals right away but I thought I didn't...