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    DIY Chicken Feed

    I didn't plan to buy 500# at a time for that reason... and don't have room for 500# of feed.
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    DIY Chicken Feed

    Miami Florida... I have 9 Bantams, (fed 2 cups daily) and 3 full size girls(fed 2 cups daily) they are in separate coops/runs so 500# would be for most of a year...
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    DIY Chicken Feed

    Dude, I'm not knocking you OR your knowledge... I'm stating what I see available at my feed stores... and at the nearest tractor supply that is 30 miles away from me...What layer feed for under $12 /50# are you talking about... SH!T I need to find deals like that, not being sarcastic!
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    DIY Chicken Feed

    On Tractor supply's web page... "all flock" is 17% protein... where do you buy your special bags of feed?
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    DIY Chicken Feed

    All I see at feed stores is 16% protein...
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    DIY Chicken Feed

    And then... Amino Acid Profile (Key Essential Amino Acids for Chickens) Amino Acid Requirement for Layers (~16%) Estimated in This Mix Best Sources in This Mix Methionine 0.35–0.40% ~0.30% Brewer’s yeast, peas, beans Lysine 0.80–0.90% ~0.75% Split peas, lentils, beans Threonine...
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    DIY Chicken Feed

    And then... Budget-Friendly High-Protein Chicken Feed (50 lbs) 25 lbs cracked corn (cheapest energy source) 10 lbs wheat or barley (buy in bulk, cheaper than oats) 5 lbs rice bran or wheat bran (cheap fiber & minerals) 5 lbs dried split peas or lentils (cheaper than soybean meal) 3 lbs cooked &...
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    DIY Chicken Feed

    Well, as per ChatGPT... A good, cheap homemade chicken feed recipe balances grains, protein, minerals, and vitamins. Here's an affordable mix: Basic Cheap Chicken Feed Recipe (per 50 lbs) 25 lbs cracked corn (main energy source) 10 lbs wheat or barley (adds variety and nutrients) 10 lbs oats...
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    Raspberry Pi Coop Automation

    @jthornton how many of the LED lights do you thing I would need for my size coop? I 've been a little busy with some of the other coals in the fire...
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    Raspberry Pi Coop Automation

    Great, as long as I'm not the only one.. Learned something else a few minutes ago.. just put in "pinout" at command line and an image of the exact Rpi in question displays an image listing the GPIO.BCM pins... pretty cool! Now that I know the GPIO.BCM pins, can you divulge the rest of the...
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    Raspberry Pi Coop Automation

    @jthornton Well, I had to go in to work today... I had installed VNC at work PC. for some dumb reason, when I was putting my Rpi address, it would not connect today. solution... fire up "Teamviewer" (basically the same as VNC for PC's) I access PC (at home) from PC (at work) to access VNC (at...
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    Raspberry Pi Coop Automation

    @jthornton Yes, I have those files... they are not the same size as yours, so I would assume they need to be updated... (my file coop3 is also green/executible) I have done "sudo apt update sudo apt dist-upgrade" How do I update other files... getting closer..
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    Raspberry Pi Coop Automation

    @jthornton I'm still stuck at "File "/home/rob/bin/coop3", line 33, in <module> from rpi_utilities import ledfade ImportError: cannot import name 'ledfade' from 'rpi_utilities' (/home/rob/bin/rpi_utilities.py)" what did I miss?
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    Raspberry Pi Coop Automation

    @jthornton doesn't VNC do the same thing... monitor, keyboard, mouse...( would have to buy moitor, keyboard, mouse...) I did/do work in the Rpi, on github repo, I do not see the "copy" code icon. that is why I was asking easier way/what am I missing? I do want to learn the right way...
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    Raspberry Pi Coop Automation

    I got it...small step...
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    Raspberry Pi Coop Automation

    @jthornton I couldn't seem to get the file... on Windows, I can be on github, download the files, cant get the files on Rpi without removing sd card putting it in windows PC. On the Rpi, I went to github, see your files, cant download them... I did copy and paste the code to the RPI coop3...
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    Raspberry Pi Coop Automation

    Also, how do I get my location in/from astral line 35, 36, etc..
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    Raspberry Pi Coop Automation

    @jthornton well, I ended up opening this thread in cromium, on my Rpi via vnc, downloaded the files to my Rpi, (download folder, extracted them "here") moved them to the bin folder, made coop3 executable ran it in terminal, had to install astral library, then had to install PyQt5 library, NOW...
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    Raspberry Pi Coop Automation

    @jthornton Ok, I did manage to download the zip file to my windows pc...unzipped it there... now what? forgive me but you seem to be forgetting I am not a programmer/command line kinda guy, but I'm trying to learn.
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    Raspberry Pi Coop Automation

    @jthornton I click on the zip file, but i get an "Oops... We're sorry, the page you are looking for could not be found and/or has been moved " what am i doing wrong to see/get the coop3zip file?
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