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  1. beela

    Wool hen, but maybe snow?!?!

    Hey Laurie, wool has worked pretty well for us. Even the few days that first week that the girls were in the house we didn't need supplemental heat for our chicks above and beyond the wool hen. If your babies are arriving in april what are your temps supposed to be like? How many chicks do...
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    Wool hen, but maybe snow?!?!

    Just wanted to come in with an update, chicks are doing great, and integration with the older flock members has been a breeze with the advice from other members threads about brooding outside/early integration. Here is a shot of their chick yard in the main run. They were able to pop under the...
  3. beela

    My water dispenser will not dispense right

    Is it in the open position? I just got that same waterer a few weeks ago, and discovered a few hours in that it has an open, and close position. Closed still let's a LITTLE water out, but not too much (probably so you can slog it across the yard in the mud without spilling all of it.) And the...
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    Wool hen, but maybe snow?!?!

    Oh, you are right, they do snuggle amongst the strips, I tried to leave a few gaps inside for pockets of chicks, and, I only had one sweater. :rolleyes: hehe. Next year I will probably score another sweater, or knit up some purpose knit strips. Oh, and I looked it up, last time we had a cold...
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    Wool hen, but maybe snow?!?!

    Thanks, the one with red strips is the crate in their brooder now, (not that they have any interest in using it. They are spending more time using an old tidy cats litter container as a huddle box.) It's not filled all the way with strips, but with 20 chicks, I wanted to save some room for the...
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    Wool hen, but maybe snow?!?!

    Thanks! They are doing great! They've been back outside in their brooder since right after that cold snap/sleet storm. They are almost 5? Weeks now I think, and really enjoying being outside. They have their own fenced off section of the run so the big girls can see them while they are outside...
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    Wool hen, but maybe snow?!?!

    Ooh, good call, I have the wool hen out in the brooder with them right now in case they need or want any extra warmth through this freeze snap, but I can mock up the process with some non-wool strips and an extra milk crate. Here is how I wrapped the strips (in the real wool hen I used a felted...
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    Wool hen, but maybe snow?!?!

    Ooh, good call, I don't have any right now, and I have the wool hen out in the brooder with them right now in case they need or want any extra warmth through this freeze snap, but I can mock up the process with some non-wool strips and an extra milk crate.
  9. beela

    Wool hen, but maybe snow?!?!

    Haha, you are not lying. My house is built for the heat of a southern summer, not the cold of a northern winter. All of my power outage preparedness is geared towards hurricane season when it's hot outside. :barnie Got some more pictures this morning when I went to put out unfrozen waters...
  10. beela

    Tips on building a cheapo coop and run?

    We built our 8×7 coop with an 8ft tall 8ft ×16ft enclosed run for just about $300ish by deconstructing an old deck and helping my step Mom clean out my Dad's hoard in their garage. We got free siding, some wood architectural shingles, paint, tar paper (from cleaning my mom's shed ) and vinyl...
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    Wool hen, but maybe snow?!?!

    So life takes lots of time lol, but I'm back with pictures. This first pic is the rework of the wool hen for inside the house. It worked perfectly fine for inside the house where the temps never got below 70*f in the room they were in. (The cover for that outlet was replaced right after I took...
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    Wool hen, but maybe snow?!?!

    Also, (I know i am essentially talking to myself here, but this info might be helpful to someone else in a few months/years if they search wool hen) I had to rework my hen this afternoon because no matter how carefully I arranged the fleece the chicks were able to peck at the styrofoam. I took...
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    Wool hen, but maybe snow?!?!

    Ok y'all, between checking out the weather version of byc, and my kids begging, pleading and cleaning/rearranging their room to make space, the babies are coming inside until this weekend. The forecast is slowly changing from may be a little snow, to will snow all day on friday. The drama and...
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    Wool hen, but maybe snow?!?!

    Thanks for the reply. I will heed your advice and skip the boiling water/dutch oven. Bringing them inside really isn't an option, and we are really only looking at 2-3 days of below 50*f, then we will probably be back into the sixties for the rest of December. (My back yard has a micro...
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    Wool hen, but maybe snow?!?!

    I have 20 1 week old chicks in our new outdoor brooder. We live in New Orleans, so chilly winters, but not super harsh. Brooder is draft free and well ventilated, it is also sheltered on 2 sides by a fence and the tie in to the existing run. We are using a wool hen this year as there is no...
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    Coop design tips for a hot, wet climate?

    Hey there! We're in New Orleans also! Over in Algiers. We got 8 birds last spring and had much the same ideas as you have. I will tell you what I wish I had done differently after this super rainy summer. We raised our coop, probably about 18". That's not high enough. It is a PAIN to get...
  17. beela

    Spring 2017 first timers post!

    How cute! Our chicks are 9 weeks now, and tons of fun. Pics of your coop?
  18. beela

    Driven Posts

    We built our coop on those, and the biggest problem we had with them was enclosing the undercoop. Because they are wider at the bottom, we had to do a little creative engineering to frame out the bottom. But, it worked and I'm happy with the stability of our coop. You could also look at fence...
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    3 Weeks Old Chicks (South Louisiana)

    My now 8 week old girls have been outside since they were 3 weeks old. We are in New Orleans, so they caught the cold snap, and those crazy spring storms. I didnt let them out into the run for the first few rains, but now I leave the pop door open for them unless it's a tornado watch. We have...
  20. beela

    Spring 2017 first timers post!

    We had a pretty big rain storm this morning, and I am happy to report that the girls made it through just fine, and our Wyandottes are the two unafraid of getting wet. We've been adding compost and yard debris into the run to build up a forest floor/deep litter to prevent a giant mud pit, and...
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