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  1. benwantegg

    getting new chickens to use Roost???

    What worked for me is that every night (for a week or so) i went into the coop and i put them physically on their roosting bar. After a couple of night they were doing it on their own...Mine were about 15-16 weeks old when i did that so i dont know yours are big/physically develop enough to...
  2. benwantegg

    Water freeze

    Here is what i did! https://www.backyardchickens.com/t/718960/lets-share-our-water-heaters-show-us-your-water-heaters-design-setup Cheap and simple.
  3. benwantegg

    Comment by 'benwantegg' in article 'The Weathertop Coop'

    Nice!!! Love the idea of the pop door that open sideway!!!
  4. benwantegg

    Let's share our water heaters!!! Show us your water heaters design/setup!!!!

    Anybody else who got some ideas? Put some pictures, it always easier to figure out something when you can see it!!!
  5. benwantegg

    Let's share our water heaters!!! Show us your water heaters design/setup!!!!

    Thanks a lot!!!! I got to find a supplier that doesnt charge a fortune for the shipping since i live in Canada. Any fellow Canadians who bought the thermo club?
  6. benwantegg

    Let's share our water heaters!!! Show us your water heaters design/setup!!!!

    What happen if it goes under 35 degrees? Is it shutting down? It will be easily 15-20 degrees over here this winter...
  7. benwantegg

    Let's share our water heaters!!! Show us your water heaters design/setup!!!!

    Mine is 1 gallon and its working. For a 5 gallons, i couldnt tell you, maybe with a 100W it would work? My flower pot gets really hot when its on. When i first built my heater, i used a 100W bulb and it was really really hot and i dont want to set my coop on fire so i went with a 60W bulb. Maybe...
  8. benwantegg

    Let's See Your Chicken Coop Heaters!

    Here is what i did! https://www.backyardchickens.com/t/718960/lets-share-our-water-heaters-show-us-your-water-heaters-design-setup#
  9. benwantegg

    Where are the eggs!

    I dont know if you already did it, put a roosting bar higher than the nestboxes. This is the reason why they go sleep in the nests. Put some golf balls in your nests to make them believe that its real eggs, they will understand that it the place to lay eggs. Try those 2 things and remove the...
  10. benwantegg

    Whats the best roofing for a chicken run?

    My roof (8x10) is shingled. It took me 3 panel of 8x4 OSB sheets at 12$ and 3 pack of roof shingle that can cover 32sq/ft at 25$ each. Nails have been given to me so i saved a bit there... Including the taxes it costed me around 150$ to do the roof. My coop and run is dry since!!! Im from...
  11. benwantegg

    are chickens pets?

    Like somebody said earlier in the thread, its pets that are making us breakfast!!!! When we decided that we wanted to have hens it was for having free eggs. But since we got them, the entire family got attached and we do feel worried when one of them is not feeling great. Im from the city...
  12. benwantegg

    bedding tips ?

    You can try to use the deep litter method: https://www.backyardchickens.com/a/deep-litter-method-the-easiest-way-to-deal-with-chicken-litter-dlm You can also use food grade diatomaceous earth with the deep litter method: https://www.backyardchickens.com/a/food-grade-de-diatomaceous-earth...
  13. benwantegg

    Slow and quiet chicken

    I cleaned the entire coop and everything went back to normal after that. Today,she is slow again but she layed an egg!!! What can it be?
  14. benwantegg

    Winter water?

    This is what im gonna use: https://www.backyardchickens.com/t/718960/lets-share-our-water-heaters-show-us-your-water-heaters-design-setup#post_9850089 Simple and cheap!!!!
  15. benwantegg

    Hiding IN A NEST BOX

    Nest box you mean? How old is your hen? For how many time you had your hen?
  16. benwantegg

    Hiding IN A NEST BOX

    I had the same issues, my chickens were sleeping in the nest boxes. I had to cleaned up everyday the boxes and picking up the eggs in their crap was not really cool... I was told to put their roosting bar higher than their nest boxes and that is what i did. Some of them when up immediately to...
  17. benwantegg

    How did you cover your run?

    Pen and coop are sharing the same shingled roof. I added ,on each side of the pen, 6x8 tarp for snowing/raining days that i can roll up on good weather days. I used regular chicken wire for the pen to keep the chickens in doubled with hardware cloth to keep small predators outside the pen...
  18. benwantegg

    Let's share our water heaters!!! Show us your water heaters design/setup!!!!

    If you can, put some pictures of your design!!! A picture worth a thousand words!!!
  19. benwantegg

    Let's share our water heaters!!! Show us your water heaters design/setup!!!!

    I want share my water heater design!!! And i want to see yours too!!! Since i live in New-Brunswick, Canada, a water heater was a must-have and believe it or not, water is starting to freeze already during the nights!! I used recycled pieces of wood and i bought the light socket, the flower...
  20. benwantegg

    Dumbest Things People Have Said About Your Chickens/Eggs/Meat

    Having chicken make my children go more often outside taking care of the chickens with me instead of making trouble inside the house because they are bored!!!! Seeing their faces lighting up when we pick up an egg make me forgetting the predators thing!!! I was raised in Montreal so i didnt...
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