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

[Fire Ant Farm]

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The cats that hang around my yard have names. They're all unrepeatable (unless I want to get detention...)

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You can do it at the bottom as well - I actually have that as part of the design in the tractor plans I bought, to keep the door from being pressed or forced inward. If you can predrill a hole before screwing it in, the wood is a lot less likely to split, but I think you can also reinforce by using wood glue in addition to the screws. In truth, you only need it to last until you can do more in the spring...

 

[BantyChooks]

The cats that hang around my yard have names. They're all unrepeatable (unless I want to get detention...)
Me, too!!!!!



You can do it at the bottom as well - I actually have that as part of the design in the tractor plans I bought, to keep the door from being pressed or forced inward. If you can predrill a hole before screwing it in, the wood is a lot less likely to split, but I think you can also reinforce by using wood glue in addition to the screws. In truth, you only need it to last until you can do more in the spring...

The bottom is sorta kept partly wedged open by t-posts that got stuck under there and then froze solid.... And then had poop freeze on top of that, which is what I busted the door on trying to close it.....

I need to take a torch (a firey one, not the plastic one) out there and melt all the poop and ice off so I can actually see the wood.

 

[Fire Ant Farm]

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Oh, my.

I forgot - I suppose your coop repair will look a little more like this:




Just don't burn it down until you have a replacement ready...

 

[jwlpoultry]

I am drooling over your turkey colors and you have/had Rhodebars right??

Only one lonely rhodebar hen now. I used to have them though. I do have a RIR roo though. I wonder how pairing the rodebar hen with the RIR roo would turn out?

Well I looked and if you breed male Rhodebar to Rhode Island Red female you get Rhodebars that are sexable and breed the pullets back to Rhodebar rooster but I don't think it works Rhode Island Red Roo to Rhodebar hen.

 

[BantyChooks]

Oh, my. I forgot - I suppose your coop repair will look a little more like this: Just don't burn it down until you have a replacement ready...

You know, I could patch some holes with ice.... I swear that stuff is stronger than hardware cloth.... I will try my bestest to remember!

 

[Fire Ant Farm]

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W.W.E.D?

 

[OneMountainAcres]

Well I looked and if you breed male Rhodebar to Rhode Island Red female you get Rhodebars that are sexable and breed the pullets back to Rhodebar rooster but I don't think it works Rhode Island Red Roo to Rhodebar hen.

Oh well. He's not a heritage RIR anyway so I guess it really doesn't matter. He was a "pullet" from TSC lol

 

[dan26552]

Morris code? (Sorry, couldn't help it...) (Woulda paid good money to see that!) Sounds like you need more electric fencing... (Loved that movie...) FINALLY!!!!!! (Though I still am missing the true fluffy chicken butt photos...) Yeah, it's pretty awesome - very hard to find goat milk for cheesemaking around here until this. I can either use it raw or if I decide to pasteurize it first (say, before making a low temp soft cheese that I may give to friends), I can do the pasteurization myself at low temperature (145F for 30 minutes), which is better for cheesemaking. Also, with the arrangement we have with our suppliers, all the money goes directly to the dairy goat farmer (just like it does to the dairy cow farmer for the raw milk). That's important to me. That's the hardest thing to do in building a coop for me - setting the door snuggly enough not to leave a big gap, but still having it swing freely. I get better each time, but have a hard time getting things really square when working with big wall panels and having to set them on my own (I mostly am trying not to have it fall on me, usually). Meanwhile, I've started using door stops on the inside. I don't know what your door looks like, but I assume it opens outward. If so, can you take a scrap of wood and screw it in place (longitudinally, down the door) so it "covers" the gap? If it's on the inside, it shouldn't impart door function and may make it harder for a predator (or rat or other baddie) to get in. You can do the same thing on the latch side. (You're reminding me that I need to do this with one of the tractors - I think mice are squeezing in.) [My brain is going to blow up if there's much more of this...] I was JUST about to say that. I'm safe with those based on my deed restrictions. Lots of leeway in my area, but I can't build a garage closer to the street than my house, I can't raise pigs, and I can't open a TB sanatorium. Yeah, I think they were a little out of date... (Maybe I'll paint my house purple. It's allowed. I love not living in an HOA...) Wow, Dan - talk about a comeback!!!!!!!! - Ant Farm

Awesome! Yeah!

 

[BantyChooks]

W.W.E.D?

What Would Elsa Do?


Which Whales Eat Doughnuts?

 

[Fire Ant Farm]

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Got it in one!


(Edit to add - Banti, this needs to be your new avatar!!!!)