Recent content by skippyscage

it freezes very well and easily, if you don't it will go off very quickly

I'm also on the FR Colorado. Mine took an age to get to beetle stage (over 3 months) and now I have a billion beetles only. No sign of small worms yet, but I'm thinking that our dry conditions just put everything into slow motion.

chickens are omnivores, they love meat

I just my first beetles in the last few days also

I finally managed to get a photo with all six in the same frame (no mean feat!)

small recycled water bottles - crushed egg shell, oyster shell and grit I've since enlarged the hole at the top, but you get the idea

here you go - inside is a utility de-icer which is plugged into a thermocube http://www.amazon.com/gp/product/B001E8X2CA/?tag=backy-20

sure - I'll try tomorrow

mine are the same - no interest whatsoever

mine eat snow when perfectly fine non-frozen water is available. chickens have choices too :D

-25C last night and one of the hens stayed outside the coop all night on a roost! All are fine and running around today. no heat required here

mine is 250 watt, but I have horizontal nipples in stead of more usual vertical ones. I found the vertical nipples froze, but since changing to horizontal nipples, have had no issues. (-25C today) I think the vertical nipples are longer, so would be more prone to freezing as the extremely of...

yup same here - I have one that has completely stopped and one that just started laying every single day. They do what they do.

ha, yeah, again shouldn't have been in there :D I know the heater is via a thermocube, and I assume the pump is the same? This is my project for Monday.

silly question - I understand what the heater does, but why the pump? Is that to move the water around to help it from freezing again?