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  1. BigRedRoo

    Roost suggestions

    We had a pile of old fence posts so I cut them with slat joints and used 12" spikes too nail them together . I ran them from corner to corner on both sides 18" apart three rows. I Used old eavs trought for poop rails which is the pest part. Almost no poop on the floor and I just scoop the eavs...
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    Free Chicken Apron/Saddle Pattern

    Can you give me some fabric dimensions, I love this Apron and will be duplicating it. I'm going to use a pair of old heavy Duck type canvas jeans that are lined with a heavy Flannel. The were a really tough jean and super warm. Heir in northern Ontario Canada it gets kinda cold. It still hasn't...
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    Hen or incubator

    This is perfect pro and con list.
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    Quail eggs

    You wont be able to get this to come to full light with great success. This would be very tricky and not worth the effort. For what it take to build or buy an incubator, I would just hatch and them myself
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    Quail eggs

    I've had a broody hen hatch multiple eggs and I don't see why you could put quail under a he that was already brooding. With the time frame being less than chickens you could put the eggs under the chicken a week after then chicken starts to brood.
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    Heating the Chicken coop in Winter.. Any suggestions

    Ive gone with no heat for two years now and Im in central ontario canada. I dont even change thier food much.
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    incubator ideas! post your ideas for home made incubators, whether they work or not~

    Great pic thanks for that. Ive been plying around with some ideas while waiting for a response, The heating element I have will heat up to a max of 190F with no air flow, as soon as I turn the fan on the temp on the element drops drastically to 85F I'm also thinking that with the ambient temp at...
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    incubator ideas! post your ideas for home made incubators, whether they work or not~

    ok and how do you mount the eating element to it?
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    incubator ideas! post your ideas for home made incubators, whether they work or not~

    I understand what your saying, maybe a tin plate 6" over the element to allow the heat to be dispersed via air flow. How to mount the heating element? was thinking maybe coil it like a stove element or run it in an oval shape but how do I mount it so its not sitting on the bottom of the fridge.
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    incubator ideas! post your ideas for home made incubators, whether they work or not~

    Please do endulge me as to how you used the eating band from the slow cooker
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    incubator ideas! post your ideas for home made incubators, whether they work or not~

    Ok so Iv spent the last two days reading this whole post and now will ask a few questions in hopes that I can finish up my Mini fridge incubator: 1) Using light bulbs scare me after reading the horror stories so Ive taken apart a mini slow cooker. The heating element is a 120V 110W flex tape...
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    incubator ideas! post your ideas for home made incubators, whether they work or not~

    I don't know if you tried this but I wold think it should be an easy conversion. especially if you can find a way to use the internal heating element!
  13. BigRedRoo

    Mystery Hen Found in my Yard

    Yep I was thinking this aswell. I came home to find a red sex link in my coop two days latter had mites!
  14. BigRedRoo

    Typical Hatch Rate Under a Broody?

    This year I only got 1 out of 5 but last year I got 5 out of 8. Ducks are way different, I got 13 out of 15 on my ducks
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    Comment by 'BigRedRoo' in article 'Frostbite and Chickens'

    Id like to start of by saying this was and is a great arctical. I just have one problem with it. I saved a couple of chickens Last year one of them had frostbite so bad on her toes that thier was no saving them. They shriveld up and fell off two months after I got her. She has been named Toes...
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    Dead chicken this morning .... what hapend?

    Yes 24/7 and watter 24/7
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    Dead chicken this morning .... what hapend?

    No Im in ontario Canada and I had a brooder on the nest last night so it wasnt the one I thought and the crop is empty!
  18. BigRedRoo

    Dead chicken this morning .... what hapend?

    Any thoughts?
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    Dead chicken this morning .... what hapend?

    So I went out to check on the chickens this morning and I found one dead on the ground? I think she might have been the one trying to brood the last few weeks. Every night I pull her out of the box put her back on the floor, She eats and then trys to get back into the box but I lock the box down...
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    Turkey sizing

    Thanks soo much for that I will put them in my archive.
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