EDUCATIONAL INCUBATION & HATCHING CHAT THREAD, w/ Sally Sunshine Shipped Eggs

[DwayneNLiz]

If you could find a culvert piece big enough and get it home

i actually see it pretty frequently considering

 

[Sally Sunshine]

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yeah I would just fall off it anyways

 

[kwhites634]

looks like something ingenious like Paddler would have made

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Originally Posted by Wingleader




Phase 5: Solar Air Heater

My fiance is a pretty crafty guy and had this idea for a while. He went online and found some instructions, and we included this in the original plan of the coop. It is an air heater made of aluminum cans and painted black! The finished product is below:



Outside views (above and below)





Inside views (above and below)



Here's how it works. A small frame is built on the top and bottom of the window with no backing toward the inside of the coop. Using a can opener, one can cut the tops and bottoms of a bunch of soda cans off, leaving aluminum tubes. These soda cans are then taped together with aluminum tape and laid out so that there is about a quarter of an inch of space in between them. With this spacing, holes that are big enough to allow the tops and bottoms of the cans only are then drilled through two boards which will be placed on top/bottom of the small frames. With these in place, the cans are fitted in so that they stretch between each hole and after all are in place, a board is fitted behind them (on the inside of the coop). This seals the cans off from the inside, leaving them exposed to the outside. These cans and the surrounding wood are then spray painted entirely black.

Air is drawn through the bottom opening inside the coop, heated inside the cans when the sun is hitting them, and forced out through the top opening. It is a startlingly simple idea, though it can be a bit complicated to get it all laid out. This works best on a side where the sun will hit a LOT, A north or southward facing wall is best. Glass should be fitted over top of the cans, and nothing should obstruct the sunlight. We actually ran into a problem with this, as the semi-transparent blue plastic roofing we chose blocks too much light. Either way, it does work and heated the coop up noticeably on bright days. We will be creating a cover for this during the summer, so that the coop doesn't overheat in hot weather. We don't want any roasted chickens!

There are many many instructional pages and videos on how to create one of these available online. I did not take sufficient pictures to go through this step-by-step and there are plenty of designs which blow this one out of the water. Click here for a search!

I want to make one of these someday!!!! I seen these where they use downspouting....

When I subscribed to Mother Earth News, I read an article about a guy who'd built a wall of his house with clear plastic water/soda bottles. I guess he chinked the gaps, as you would when putting up a log house. Sun heats bottles, creating warmed air, which is forced into the coop by the expansion of the air in the bottles. Cover the outside with a tarp to block the sun in the summer.

 

[Sally Sunshine]

Quote: bahahaha

 

[Chaos18]

:/ yeah I would just fall off it anyways

She does that too. Although it's usually because she trying to climb something she shouldn't.

 

[Sally Sunshine]

Quote: yes the roos are about the same

 

[Sally Sunshine]

Quote:

looks like something ingenious like Paddler would have made

Quote:
Originally Posted by Wingleader




Phase 5: Solar Air Heater

My fiance is a pretty crafty guy and had this idea for a while. He went online and found some instructions, and we included this in the original plan of the coop. It is an air heater made of aluminum cans and painted black! The finished product is below:



Outside views (above and below)





Inside views (above and below)



Here's how it works. A small frame is built on the top and bottom of the window with no backing toward the inside of the coop. Using a can opener, one can cut the tops and bottoms of a bunch of soda cans off, leaving aluminum tubes. These soda cans are then taped together with aluminum tape and laid out so that there is about a quarter of an inch of space in between them. With this spacing, holes that are big enough to allow the tops and bottoms of the cans only are then drilled through two boards which will be placed on top/bottom of the small frames. With these in place, the cans are fitted in so that they stretch between each hole and after all are in place, a board is fitted behind them (on the inside of the coop). This seals the cans off from the inside, leaving them exposed to the outside. These cans and the surrounding wood are then spray painted entirely black.

Air is drawn through the bottom opening inside the coop, heated inside the cans when the sun is hitting them, and forced out through the top opening. It is a startlingly simple idea, though it can be a bit complicated to get it all laid out. This works best on a side where the sun will hit a LOT, A north or southward facing wall is best. Glass should be fitted over top of the cans, and nothing should obstruct the sunlight. We actually ran into a problem with this, as the semi-transparent blue plastic roofing we chose blocks too much light. Either way, it does work and heated the coop up noticeably on bright days. We will be creating a cover for this during the summer, so that the coop doesn't overheat in hot weather. We don't want any roasted chickens!

There are many many instructional pages and videos on how to create one of these available online. I did not take sufficient pictures to go through this step-by-step and there are plenty of designs which blow this one out of the water. Click here for a search!

I want to make one of these someday!!!! I seen these where they use downspouting....

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When I subscribed to Mother Earth News, I read an article about a guy who'd built a wall of his house with clear plastic water/soda bottles. I guess he chinked the gaps, as you would when putting up a log house. Sun heats bottles, creating warmed air, which is forced into the coop by the expansion of the air in the bottles. Cover the outside with a tarp to block the sun in the summer.

cool!

 

[dan26552]

60lb Dog vs 300+ lb pig. Yep, Bob has no problem getting Migory Sow to go wherever he wants her to.

Or making her lie down.

Or sit.

 

[kwhites634]

Quote: You should grab guineas by the neck, & hold on, as tight as you can manage

the guy in NJ that I traded chicks fer eggs that Mike and I hatched said he raises them just for food, they are better than chickens he says???? dunno.... maybe Mike will process one
You're subject to find most anything going on in NJ!

 

[Sally Sunshine]

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I am not aware of anything I shouldnt