California - Northern

[HighNDryFarm]

Hi welcome! For Hardware Cloth the best place I have found it so far is www.wayfair.com. I can get the 100x3 ft roll for $89.50 right now. Can't remember if there is tax or not but there is free shipping and they ship fast. I had mine in two days. Plus I didn't have to schlep it from the store. Delivered right to my front door!

I went there and searched for hardware cloth and got a page with chicken coops.

Try this link directly to the page. I searched hardware cloth and it came right up. What a great deal! http://www.wayfair.com/Mat-0.5-Mesh-Galvanized-Hardware-Cloth-308243B-308246B-BFJ1003.html

 

[lawatt]

Try this link directly to the page. I searched hardware cloth and it came right up. What a great deal!
http://www.wayfair.com/Mat-0.5-Mesh-Galvanized-Hardware-Cloth-308243B-308246B-BFJ1003.html

i was hoping they'd have the rolls that are 3' or 4' wide, but they only seem to have the 2'.

 

[PetRock]

i was hoping they'd have the rolls that are 3' or 4' wide, but they only seem to have the 2'.

Click on select size and you can choose the 3' roll. Sometimes they have 4' but I guess not right now.

 

[PetRock]

Also look at the other selections listed in the Customers Also Viewed bar. There are other ones that have 4' rolls. This one has 4' x 50'.
http://www.wayfair.com/Mat-Mesh-Hardware-Cloth-308B-BFJ1001.html

I have been very pleased with all the purchases that I have made from Wayfair. If you decide to buy from them, they have a referral program and the friend who referred you gets $10 plus you get 10% off a purchase over $100. It looks like several of us shop there and I'm sure each of us would be happy to give you a referral link.

 

[juststruttin]

its much much much stronger than any poultry wire. I use it under my coops and along the side of the grow up pens

There are two gages. I prefer the stronger, heavier gage which is what you are likely referring to. Perfect for floor. The gage of the wire is much thicker and stronger than the light weight. If memory serves me, the heavy weight is about $65 per 100 X 3' roll and the light weight is around $50.

I use the light gage in my pens where there are chicks because they can actually fit through the holes of the heavy gauge.

 

[juststruttin]

Thanks for the wayfair tip. Novato Builders, in Novato .. lol Sells a 100 X 4' roll of hardware cloth for $119. That is where I usually get it. 4' is perfect for my garden beds. I guess this price is not that bad after all as both cost $29 per horizontal foot on a 100' roll.

 

[Grandmas Basket]

Happy Friday morning of holiday weekend to all! DH and DS are at Burning Man this week. This is their third consecutive year attending and could be their last. Took 14 hours from Sac to the gates. They drove up in wee hours Monday morning through lots of eye stinging smoke on 80. Meanwhile, I manned the home front and tackled refreshing our three rooms with oiled hardwood floors. I recently invested in a used smaller commercial buffer off Craigslist. After spending hours over two days, that little machine and I bonded. And the floors look amazing again. Will kee the dogs off them until DH returns to allow max curing. Don't know if fumes from flooring oil and/or fatigue got to me (windows wide open and heat thankfully not too bad). But when I did a check of my pullets at dusk last night I opened the nest box and my heart swelled with pride, only momentarily. Then I realized I was admiring the wooden egg I'd placed in the box. Duh!!! Don't my darlings know that they've passed the 20 week mark and at least one should cough up something? All in due time, huh. DH and I go to Giants game 9/11 and will return home via the Heirloom Expo http://www.theheirloomexpo.com/. For those of you who went in the past, any tips on what to see and eat are much appreciated.

 

[capayvalleychick]

DH and I go to Giants game 9/11 and will return home via the Heirloom Expo http://www.theheirloomexpo.com/. For those of you who went in the past, any tips on what to see and eat are much appreciated.

Take time to look at everything. There are lots of choices for food, see what looks good to you. Livestock and the poultry show are in the far back. I'll be there Tuesday, with some chickens. I was considering having my ranch exhibit again, but I don't think I can pull it off this year.

 

[Chickengirl1304]

My first olive egg! Made with black copper Marans roo over americauna hen. Now should I breed these hens to my easter egger roo or my black copper Marans roo again?

 

[ronott1]

My first olive egg! Made with black copper Marans roo over americauna hen. Now should I breed these hens to my easter egger roo or my black copper Marans roo again?

Very Nice!

From what I have read, it gets harder to maintain the Olive color in the following generations. You may be able to make the color darker by breeding back to a Dark egg layer. Remember, not all of the next generation will get the Blue Gene and lay Olive colored eggs and some may not get the Brown gene and will lay blue.

Gott get that genetics chart back....