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  1. wyododge

    Anyone figure out how to use nipple waterers in the winter without them freezing?

    You can view our system on my page. 5 gallon bucket with a bird bath heater works perfect. Had no issues at -30F. There will be a little ball of ice on the metal post, but once 'tickled' it will fall off and water will flow normally. We set up an auxiliary storage tank with a pump to avoid...
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    automatic heated water system????

    If you use pipe and the power goes out, you will lose your entire system. You can view our system on my page. Essentially a 160 gallon Polly tank in insulated box with tank heater, submersable pump, self draining water line to five gallon bucket with nipples and bird bath heater. If power goes...
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    Rotating Waterers in the cold...

    If there is ice and snow on the ground, you don't need to water the chickens. Thats the best water available.
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    Too Much Fruit

    https://www.backyardchickens.com/t/550428/why-no-citrus/10#post_8243026
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    why no citrus?

    ...just about anything they want. You would do well to consider the source of those lists, they may be from the same folks who say chicks must have 95* heat for x# of weeks and dropped 5*/day, or what ever it is. Bunch of baloney. Throw out the food, what they don't eat, compost. After it...
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    Diatomaceous earth???

    Yes Lots of debate on this one thing for sure there is a tremendous variety of minerals in it, calcium included. Yes 2% by weight. There are a million threads about it on here. Search and you will be able to read just about every pro and con you could imagine.
  7. wyododge

    Matted, frozen wood chips - too much moisture in the coop?

    Ummm, couple issues I see here. We use deep litter as well. First, chicken poop is wet, when its cold, it freezes. But before it freezes, the liquid absorbs into the litter making it all wet. No amount of natural ventilation is going to stop your littler from turning into frozen blocks. When...
  8. wyododge

    Think it's too cold for your chickens? Think again...

    ...surroundings. You can see on my page a window in the back of my coop, and the screened opening in the sliding door. Window out, shutters open, -10*. Good rule of thumb, when in doubt, ventilate - ventilate - ventilate. Fresh air cures almost anything, and prevents almost everything else...
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    Chickens for 10-20 years or more? Pull up a rockin' chair and lay some wisdom on us!

    r4eboxer - If you are worried about selling processed chickens, sell 'live' ones and offer to take them to the processor that you use. You can charge a fee to take them to the processor, and a fee to deiliver the finished bird. But all you did was sell a live, breathing, pooping bird. If you...
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    Wyododges Page

    ...and dirt. No medicated feed. We raised them dirty, introduced them to bacteria immediately. They were outside well into the night when it was 50* with no heat lamps, just a blanket over the top and one side to block the wind. After a week they were outside all night. We wrapped the kennel...
  11. wyododge

    Think it's too cold for your chickens? Think again...

    We've only gotten down to -15f, but they were running around outside like the little idiots that they are. Currently we are experiencing 30 to 40 degree temp drops from day to night. I took the window back out too. We get a nice breeze through the coop that way. Makes me long for the days of...
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    Moisture when winterizing??

    DE is diatomaceous earth. ask around for it, just make sure to get food grade. Ventilation is simply air movement or replacement in your coop. You simply can not have enough ventilation as your birds have evolved to live out doors. Drafts are air flow(s) which are directed onto or in close...
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    Watering Nipples.

    Quote: Yep there is a bit of a mess, we put a 55 gallon drum lid under ours to catch the majority of the splashed and missed drops.
  14. wyododge

    Watering Nipples.

    We use a bird bath deicer to keep the water from freezing. And would never go back. We have a pretty good set up we designed out of necessity. You can see our solutions to common issues on our page.
  15. wyododge

    roosting outside the henhouse

    Might be too hot inside the coop. You can be assured they will sleep where more safe, more comfortable or both. Either the air quality is better, the temperature is better, or there is less fighting for space. You can pretty much be guaranteed they will go where they think it is best for them...
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    Why is it important for chickens to roost at night?

    It doesn't matter. They will pretty much sleep where they want.
  17. wyododge

    Moisture when winterizing??

    Sounds like you have it figured out but just to let you know 'drafts' do not hurt chickens. They are perfectly capable of living in a tree in temperatures far below many believe possible. Our coop is exposed to high wind in -15f. We have openings at the bottom, in the ceiling and the top of the...
  18. wyododge

    Intresting, what would you do?

    I would never be in that position as I would not mis-represent my product, but I would give them an apology and twenty bucks.
  19. wyododge

    Another possible solution to freezing water

    ...insulated box with a pump to fill our water bucket. We use a bird bath deicer in our bucket and a stock tank heater in the tank. We get really cold here usually. But so far only -15f. It will easily get 20* colder by winters end though. Looking forward to your updates. I love Yankee...
  20. wyododge

    Does anyone use the nipple water drinkers?

    We use a birdbath deicer for our system. It has only been down to -15f so far, but has worked flawlessly so far.
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