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Projects to use the old heat lamps for? Dehydrator.
All the chicks no longer need a heat lamp, in fact it's gotten somewhat hot these days... With that, I've been trying to come up with a neat project I can use the heat lamps for. I have two 150W red bulbs. I was thinking of making a dehydrator, but I also heard that you're really not meant to...- Fuhoo
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Should I be replacing their pine shavings, or piling on some more?
I'm brooding two separate batches of chicks, one in the coop (on wood) and another in the run (on sand). I cover the both brooding areas in pine shavings and that has worked decently well for the past month. I've been noticing and increase in "funk" though, equally in both brooders, and it's a...- Fuhoo
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- Forum: Raising Baby Chicks
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Do you mix anything into your chick's water?
Have you had success mixing other stuff into your chick's water? The farm I bought all my chicks from uses an electrolyte powder (forgot to ask what type when I went). I've been putting a teaspoon of genuine ACV into ~1L, I've also seen people mixing honey into the water for some extra sugar...- Fuhoo
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Deep Litter/Bedding in the brooder?
Quick question about bedding the chick's brooder. I have 10 chicks brooding in my coop fenced in with some cardboard, the coop itself is wood floored, open-air with large ventilation. Hot, dry climate. I've put them on very coarse wood shavings (dust-free, sold as "horse bedding") and heard...- Fuhoo
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Treats to grow inside the run?
Any tips or ideas on what herbs I can grow inside the run? I've got a corner that gets an okay amount of sunlight, and with my climate it never quite gets cold. There's already a few trees in the run, but I figured it'd be nice to grow something with soft leaves for the girls to peck at :) I've... -
Using Duck Aquaponics to filter pond water and produce duck feed?
I'm currently in the planning stage of adding ducks and a small pool/pond for my backyard and have been doing a lot of research into keeping the pond clean from the nasty duck poop😵💫. We've owned ducks before and yeah, they muck it up fast. Which is what brought me to researching Aquaponic...