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We kept chickens in a bus for two winters. I bought furnace filters that were the same size as the windows. I opened about 6 windows and used metal screws to screw the furnace filters to attach the filters on the inside the windows. This gave us better airflow without drafts or snow coming in...

Do you have to house the separate? I know next to nothing about silkies.

My daughter moved to Falcon area about 1.5 years. We all love it. I actually live about 5 miles into the trees of Black Forest. we now wish we had more land. 3 acres is just not enough :) we love homsteading and of course our chickens. Who knows she may end up farther out east some day. i bet...

Well, I had my second carpel tunnel surgery yesterday but before that was done, I had to complete one more chicken project. It's a large feeder for the bus. Supposed to hold 300+ lbs of feed. It only took 2.5 hours to build. Found a video on YouTube with all the plans on Google doc. They were...

I would recommend getting a seedling heating pad. It will warm for fermenting. I worry that the aquarium heaters will be too hot. I use one to heat our waterers and I set it down on the bedding for a minute the other day and it burned the material. If it says heat the water to 62 the element...

This is late... But welcome. I'm nearby in Falcon. You'll love this group. They've been so knowledgeable and helpful. We only began our journey in late January 2015 with 9 hens. Decided to add over 100 pullets in July. So, we have learned very quickly.

Any thoughts? I am considering removing all the bedding underneath the roost bars of our bus coop. This will leave about 2/3 of the bus with bedding. The reason I want to do this is then I can remove all poop under roost bars every few days or daily when my schedule allows it. I like the idea...

Thank you so much for sharing your experience. So, it's sounds like you increase the protein of standard feed to accommodate all the different varieties. I too have a bit more time to care for chickens. Thanks again.

We use a bus for a coop. The ramp is rather long and somewhat steep. The opening is large enough I believe for the turkeys to come and go but can they get up the ramp. Will they roost in the coop - from your experience? I have read that turkeys like to roost outside in good weather. Should I...

When we adopted our chickens last year, a couple had suffered frostbite from the December deep freeze. They were really dark, looked black to me. No tips lost. It just seemed to take time to heal. Great pics!

So approximately $20 each. Can you raise the turkeys with the chickens but provide them with their own roosts? Or should they have their own coop/run?

One more coop hack... Coop ventilation I bought a set of 4 furnace filters for $4 @ home depot. I opened the window and screwed a set of two to each window. Test drove two windows worked great. I did 4 more. 100+ chickens create a lot of moisture in the coop. I use a similar method in our little...

Here's a bit more of our bus set up. It's definitely a work on progress. Oh, the biggest challenge with 100+ chickens is what to do with all the manure and how to keep the coop clean. We now have a local farmer come and clean out all the bedding once a month and haul the manure away (he has 500...

We are interested as well.

We purchased are pullets from McMurray. We were very satisfied.