I think it will be but that said, no house paint is really clean except old fashioned whiting which is usually only used in barns because it gives off if you try to clean it. I'm going to paint the inside of the coop with something similar called Klaxo (Netherlands if not elsewhere) which is...
Iron oxide kept running through my head but my dictionaries were no help and I gave up before asking Google. I no longer live in the US but I could have asked my family!
I think all paint is lead free these days. What I actually want to know is what paints can let off fumes for a long period after the paint is dry but only the outside of the coop will be painted.
No - lead is no longer used in any paint to my knowledge but I couldn't find a modern translation for the Dutch word for "ijzer-menie". The coop is on stilts, the chickens couldn't actually get at the outside, and the color of the paint is a brownish, or old red which we use on barn doors and...
My husband would like to paint the outside of our chicken coop with "red-lead" paint which is often used on metal against rust but can be used for wood too. I'm not sure how long we need to wait before there are no poisonous fumes coming off the wood.
Thanks - how do I measure the percentage? Until now I just add a little water every once in a while. The amount advised in the incubator booklet was only 100 ml to be replenished every two days up to the hatching time, whenever that is. The incubator is for maximum 12 chicken eggs.
I seem to remember from last year that you were to increase the amount of water in the incubator during hatching. Could somebody verify this? I have 4 early birds - thought I had another 5 days to go but the hen must have been sitting already when I rescued the eggs from her nest in the garden...
No racoons here (normally). This is NW Europe. Martens prevalent, weasels too. But I find no information about how they go about killing and there's no mention of sucking blood. This is the time of year that young martens are running around learning how to get their own food.
That's what I thought too - that weasels suck the blood. I'm going to look up the differences. What do martens do? Birds pick and tear so it looks like it was a bird but what scared it away? There's a small upside down crate the chicks could escape into but if it was a hawk he must have been...
One of my 4 chicks, a month old and healthy, in a pen outside during the day, has been attacked by unknown predator. The crop is open in a few places but what concerns me the most is at one end (?). I extracted food which had gotten stuck there but I am unsure where water and food will go now. I...
My 4 chicks are not yet 2 weeks old. They really go for chopped up greens but when I offered them a piece of apple they didn't know what to do with it! I'll wait with the grapes until the fall. My Concord grape gives a nice big seed. But I think I'll try cut up organic raisins now.