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Wow! Thank you for all the prompt replies! Rodriguezpoultry - numbering the responses to the pictures we posted was very helpful. Thank you! I'm also glad to get confirmation on our suspects. I'd hate to have culled a pullet by mistake. We are having some friends come by tomorrow to help us...

We have some ideas as to breed, but as I sort through pictures and descriptions I get a bit more confused trying to figure it out. I'm hoping that the BYC group can nail them down for us. We got 26 chicks from McMurray - their "Rainbow Layer" package. The chickens are now about 18 weeks. No...

Quote: This is mostly true. Rigid foamboard is moisture resistant and, in certain applications, can be used without a vapor barrier. But it must be an application where there are no cracks, or unfilled seams, and where there is no penetration by nails, metal studs, or other things that will...

Don't buy a shed kit and plan to "modify" it thinking you'll save money... I ended up redesigning the whole thing to accommodate for the bad construction of the kit. Basically the kit ended up being the pile of lumber I had to make to coop from - plus all the stuff it didn't have, plus the...

Moisture is a ventilation issue if the inside humidity is greater than the outside humidity. It is also an insulation issue as moisture will condense on cool surfaces. Metal roofs will have a great deal of temperature variation because they conduct heat so well. Insulating your metal roof...

Mine don't like me. They like my boots. I put some food on my boots at one point to try to get them used to me. Now when I come in they all run away til I sit down. Then they mob my boots. I think if I left the boots they'd be content to never see me again.

Great Vid! Thanks for sharing!

Funny timing. Our chicks are about 2-1/2 weeks old, and have just started jumping up on everything in the coop. Yesterday, I was sitting on the feed bin watching them and one jumped up on the nesting box (about head level when I'm sitting) and walked over to me. I leaned towards her to say...

Depends how you do it. If you can run cable, then an old video camera to a television or monitor will work. I had an old wireless IP cam. We have a wireless network in the house so I just configured the cam into our existing network. I can only see it on the computer, and the coop is at...

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Can't agree more. I see it in my work all the time. Controlled studies are great to compare to other controlled studies, but the real world has so many other variables that it's hard to make solid judgments. I've been tracking our progress so I can make educated guesses in the future based on...

According to the book "Success with Baby Chicks" by Robert Plamondon: 100 chicks will eat: 10 lbs the first week 20 lbs the second week 30 lbs the third week 40 lbs the fourth week or 100 lbs the first 4 weeks 360 lbs the first 8 weeks 765 lbs the first 12 weeks 1255 lbs the first 16 weeks...

That's a great title!

This is going to be on my list as well. Seems to me you could get around the electric problem with a cheap solar powered fan - I saw one at the hardware store the other day. Then the fan would also only go on when there was sun so you'd only be moving air into the space when it's being...

We're almost to the second week with ours - 26 chicks about 26lbs of food in 2 weeks. Guess they don't eat as much as they get older I had to get a larger feeder within the first week to keep from having to fill it 3x a day. On the other hand though - it's getting cold here and I suspect...

The wireless cam could be set up as an IP cam, but when I say old, I mean very old in computer terms. With your VGA you get a much better and much more reliable picture - I was actually jealous of you being able to see it on the TV rather than a grainy, jerky, webcam. lol There is no way I...

We put one in as well for the new chicks from about their second day using an old wireless webcam. I can check in on the chicks to make sure they've got enough food and are warm enough. Thought I was the only one that obsessive. Hadn't thought about a pay site though.... hmmmm. Love it...

You're building it similar to an old-style root cellar. That being the case, you'll probably want 12-24" of soil on top for insulation (and cooling in the summer). Don't know what your span is, and it sounds like you've been looking at loads, but a 2x10 or 2x12 with a taper at 12" on center...

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Our baby chicks have been here about a week now, and it's time to lower the temp by 5 degrees according to everything I've read. I have the chicks out in the coop. It's well insulated, dry, and draft free. The heat lamp is low enough that directly under it it's about 100 degrees (although...