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I'm searching for a cold weather waterer design that I had a diagram of several years ago. I had a barn fire two ears ago and my plans were destroyed. Now that my new barn has electricity I would like to build the waterer. The design had a large cooler for a reservoir - a tiny water...

I'm ready to try incubation but the units that I have researched are very expensive. The Hova and the Little Giant are around $120 U.S. with auto turners. I am a little shocked at this as these prices do not fit into my present budget. Can you guys offer any recommendations? I'm studying...

For those of you who keep their rooster segregated from the girls . . . do you have a separate coop for the boys? I'm considering keeping our one rooster in a sectioned off part of the chicken run but we only have one coop. How do you folks provide roosting space for the chooks when they are...

We have free-ranged our chickens for years. Our flock has ranged in size from 20 to 30 chickens and we only have layers. We sell organic free range eggs at farmer's market as well as to two mom-n-pop hole-in-the-wall restaurants. Last year the flock managed to migrate out to the road many...

Several years ago we had a serious problem with skunks, fox, and coyotes raiding the coops at night. We did pretty well by making sure that the coops were in good repair and we also used all the heavy duty fencing available to us. But still there were times when a latch was left open or a...

I'm sure some of you have seen this website before. I just ran across it yesterday and spent an hour reading it. Very interesting. I have considered a paddock arrangement several times because I have the space to do it but I haven't applied myself very well since I have been so sick this past...

Meet Mary - she's a very good mommy.

We have been discussing methods of heating the coop during the cold weather months and some have recommended the use of bottles of hot water. I was out in our barn yesterday and there was our old propane turkey fryer with the 30 qt. aluminum kettle. I think the 30 qt. kettle would do a great...

Here are some pics of the coop that came with our mini-farm we purchased last month. We call our new mini-farm "PayStation II". This coop was used for chickens and dwarf goats. The left side was the chicken coop and the right side was the goat pen. It does not look like it's in very good...

Hi everyone. My name is Doopy and we have just purchased a mini-farm in southeast Indiana. Years ago we had a small farm in south central Ohio but sold everything we owned to purchase a motor home to tour the country. We lived in our motor home for several years and really enjoyed the gypsy...