I have a Brahma hen that has never went broody, but has helped with parenting previous batches of chicks.
Today I saw that Brahma get into a nesting box occupied by my youngest silkie hen, and push eggs under the silkie. Is this something hens do to encourage other hens to brood? Should I try...
Thrifting is a great way to not only find things you want or need for cheap, but it prevents functioning goods from going to landfill and for some it can be a profitable side business reselling finds.
Where to go for thrifting options:
Craigslist: 'Garage Sale' section
Facebook Marketplace...
My cousin is big on mushroom foraging. I've went a few times with him but didn't find anything. He's given me morels and pheasantback he's found and they were delicious (I turned the pheasantback into a creamy soup)
I don't forage too often but here is my list:
Dandelions: Flowers and roots...
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Thanks. I use a 27 quart Sterilite storage bin found at walmart for $7.30. I put in 3 water nipples at the base of one side, and tapped holes in the lid and using bulkhead fittings and hose clamps, secured the corrugated tubing to both the lid and gutters. At the very top of the bin...
Maybe use black PVC pipe or black tubing to catch the sun's heat? A solar powered heater isn't feasible, but perhaps a small solar powered water pump that cycles the water between the PVC sun catcher and an insulated storage tank every 30 minutes?
I use corrugated pond tubing as a cheap way to...
Thats what I feared. I narrowed the chickens foraging area down to a small closed off section for both hawk deterrence and livestreaming the chickens. I feel bad because the grass is literally greener on the other side of the pen and sometimes chickens stick their heads through my welded wire...
The door to my coop is always open but I have a gate opener on my run that lets my chickens out into the pen. Its solar/battery powered but the solar panel wasn't effective enough this winter. I run a power cable to the coop in winter anyway so atm its tapped into my house. I may have to get a...
I moved my chickens from a large free-range area to a smaller but still decently sized pen. Over winter they scratched the ground and the dirt inside the pen while the grass is greener on the other side. I am not sure if the grass will recover in spring or if I have to plant something to...
I don't but seeing what traits of the different breeds are inherited is interesting. How many eggs is your broody hen sitting on? Can you tell which eggs belong to which hen? If you want more chicks and its cold out you can just pull eggs out of the other nesting boxes and give them to your...
I originally installed Linuxmint Mate to handle my streaming setup but ended up going with Windows Enterprise LTSC due to a very specific issue that probably won't affect you (regarding RTSP). My home media server uses Windows 10, but I would have gone with Windows Enterprise LTSC had I known...
If you are using linux, drive formatting is important, make sure you use NTFS otherwise if you use a common linux format like ext4, Windows won't be about to read it if you transferred the drive to another computer.
If you prefer the Windows interface but are concerned about the bloatware, I...
I never had a problem. There is woods the squirrels can forage from, and the treeline is 150+ ft from the coop. There is a massive walnut tree between the coop and the woods that gives the squirrels food as well
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I made it so the focus changes to the most active camera (based on similarity index over a span of 10 snapshots taken 1 second apart) so long as nobody has changed the focus or moved a camera within the past 20 minutes and outside the time frame of the run gate being kept open (made...
I have an online friend who has a couple ender 3's and I asked him about what printer I should get. He told me to get a BambuLabs P1S. Then I consulted a cousin of mine who is a plastics engineer and he agreed that that was a great first printer. I've had a P1S for about 6 months now and have...
Your coop and run roof is already slanted, so I suggest installing gutters and using corrugated pond tubing (cheapest option) to route water to a bin with water feeding nipples, with overflow leading to where natural runoff travels
I often have birds making nests on the lintel of the gate to my back yard. I like birds, they can nest wherever as long as its not part of a ventilation system. But in April 2024 I was looking out the window and saw a crow scare two robins away from this lintel, so I went out to check; I found...
Not many people know about Uranium glass. Its 'depression-era' glassware that has uranium added as a colorant. Some people collect it for display, or they like the history of the glass, studying the manufacturers and patterns... I buy it for a utilitarian purpose. I'm a young adult, and am used...
I tried decoy owls that turn their head and make noises when movement is detected but it took the hawks about a month to figure that out.
My rooster is a tiny silkie who alerts me when he sees hawks, and has successfully beat a fully grown red-tailed hawk on at least one occasion, but 80% of...
This project started sometime in October when an online friend in Italy casually suggested I stream my chicken coop. I'm not sure whether or not they were serious but at the time I thought "Yeah... I should totally do that...". Fast forward a couple months and way too much time spent designing...