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[perchie.girl]

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Kind of late on this.... but you can seal cement with Thompsons Water seal...

Urine can be neutralized.

http://www.wikihow.com/Remove-Urine-Odor-from-Concrete

ammonia nutralizing

http://www.ehow.com/info_8738274_neutralizes-ammonia-smell.html

Actually that last one I prefer the instructions on.... wow what a wierd sentence....

Anyhoo it suggests cleaning then using Vinegar... Vinegar is my go to for a lot of things from sterilizing to cleaning the toilet It dissolves calcium if its not built up too heavy.

deb

 

[hennible]

Thank you deb
Good to have options.

 

[perchie.girl]

Sam, if you can build a earth floor that stays dry (good drainage, and elevation), I'd say that's the easier route to take. Pouring the floor for a big coop is costly, and labor intensive, plus it takes a couple of weeks for it to dry. You'd need about 8" of concrete probably, so for a 200 square foot coop that's about 7-8 (metric) tons of concrete. Not very cheap, the best way to have it delivered would be with one of those cement trucks.

it may be different in Finland but most garage slabs are 4-6 inches thick... But I agree about the earth floor. YOu can always pour a slab later.. Most garage floors are floating slabs any way... No footings but contained by footings. At least here in California. I do relaize there is envorinmental differences.

Cement cures hard enough to walk on in about 24-48 hours. When they put my fence in here in the city by the time the last fence post was set in concrete they were hammering on the first... Not strong enough by far for fence climbing but stong enough for construction within an hour or two.

deb

deb

 

[Beer can]

If you go concrete and change your mind down the road and make it into a workshop you can always clean it up and use that epoxy garage floor stuff. They sell do it yourself kits online and home depot and lowes. I plan on using it in my garage and our back room that's concrete.

Edited to add maybe use the epoxy first, might clean right up?

 

[perchie.girl]

I'm pretty happy with how her home turned out. I'm still thinking of building a nest in there though. A plastic tote with a (insulated) lid, dug into the ground so that only the top inch is above ground, and two pipes coming out of it to act as tunnels. That way, the next time we get kits, we could go in earlier to take a look at them. But at the same time, I'm sort of intrigued by this more natural nest.

I would suspect she would bury all the entrances to a man made abode and dig her tunnels and nest elsewhere. Now that you know how good a job she is doing why not just let her reuse her tunnel? I bet she does a most excellent cleaning job once the kits are out and eating all on their own.

Wow I was just reading up Rabbits can have as many as 12-13 kits per litter.... There may be more bunnies in that hole than you suspected. Also I saw one bunny in the night picture that was marked like a siamese cat... Dark ears nose and feet and creamy light body.

deb

 

[Amberjem]

remember @Alaskan marans typically hatch three days later then most chickens believe they are expected to hatch on like 23/24th day

 

[Beer can]

Yeah our code for garages and trailer floating pads is six inches with reenforcment wire. We have tough concrete. House foundations are more complex with code on the thickness and 'hardware' rebar.
If you pour it yourself keep in mind wetter cement is easier to level out but it makes it weak, drier barely wet cement is much stronger.
Edited to change week to weak, for the Finnish dude who knows English more better then me Lol, just pickin vehve but you probably do.
How prevalent is English in Finland anyway?

 

[BriardChickens]

I would if someone would go with me. Josh isn't interested in racing and that's where my horse roots started was in harness racing and thoroughbred racing.

I WOULD, LOL

 

[BriardChickens]

Baby bunnies!

I'd say at least 6 kits with this video, four black, one black and white according to the previous ones, and here I think something greyish is visible. At least not solid black, or spotted like the previous ones.

So how big is a "normal" litter of rabbits?

 

[perchie.girl]

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Not an expert here I just read this on line about fifteen minutes ago 12-13 is a normal amount.... this was her first litter so who knows...

deb