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Also, If your plywood is not coated with anything, try to coat it with something that will stop it from absorbing the water (humidity).

I would def make sure you kill the mold before incubating, bleach25/water75 works great for this. If you can, reposition your fans so that they blow air over the effected area. Also, you can try to lower your humidty a tad bit, just by increasing external ventilation holes. Justin

What part of WV are you in, I am located in Maryland. Would you allow for pickup?

Plywood would work. However, I would try to find something that would not absorb moisture, would remain dry and not allow for bugs to make homes in it. With that being said, this is the perfect time of year to salvage some coroplast from the sides of the road, it only grows there about once...

Sugar water seems to help, also plain gatoraide. For food after a few days if she isnt improving then make some scrambled egg yolk. Good Luck to you and your little one.

My first thought was belly button, or umbilicus, but only knowing human anatomy wasnt sure as to if a baby chick had an umbilical cord, which in a human would be attached to the mothers placenta. I will need to do some more research on egg & embryo anatomy and physiology.I guess that would...

Ok so this is a 4 day old silkie chick... was eating and drinking fine yesterday, not too sure about now, might seem a little lethargic. I had to clean some pastys off of 4/5 yesterday and this morning, this evening when I come home, only 1 has pasty reminants as I used Baby Oil to keep it from...

Thanks for the reply. Anybody else out there have any ideas? Thanks, Justin

Thanks. bfrancis- amazing similarities, must have planned this together and we diddnt know about it. Lol..

Are they, or you bumping into it? And causing it to spill over a little at a time?

First time chickeneer here.. I have 7 chicks.. I would like to confirm that the breeds and sexes are what I think they are, If anyone can help... please do so.. They are all about 8 weeks old now. (#1) All The Chicks: (#2) 'Happy' Black Australorp (F) (#3) 'Popeye / Olive Oil' Silver Laced...

I bought a couple of the ceramic bases at lowes and installed them into junction boxes on the trusses on the coop ceiling. Then installed a 16w compact fluroscent bulb into them, low cost, no heat produced and plenty of light for night... Justin

So I was kinda hoping that I would qualify for the 8k dollar tax credit with this coop... but I don't.. So here are pictures of what I have done thus far.. and I feel like its coming along quite nicely. I did not have any plans on paper, just on my head.. and tried to make things work as I...

First time chickeneer here.. I have 7 chicks.. I would like to confirm that the breeds and sexes are what I think they are, If anyone can help... please do so.. They are all about 8 weeks old now. (#1) All The Chicks: (#2) 'Happy' Black Australorp (F) (#3) 'Popeye / Olive Oil' Silver Laced...