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

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BullChick said:
:oops: I think I have plenty of 2x4’s, I just don’t have the ability to get from step one to a run. My brain ain’t havin’ it.
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I'm pretty sure you cold find a youtube video on basic carpentry; enough to put up a run, anyway. Once you get a squared-up wood panel together, stapling wire to it would be simple, as long as you don't smack your thumb.

For the sake of easier handling, you could make the whole thing modular, in panels about the size of a house door. Little more material that way, but manageable by yourself.

Or, if the price isn't prohibitive, dog kennel panels work great. Just ad hardware cloth down low all the way around, stretch bird netting across the top, & you're good to go. That's how my large run is made, but I already had the kennel panels.
 
kwhites634 said:
Sounds familiar. Been on CL, FB Marketplace, Western MD Yard Sale, & any other place I can think of in the last several days; no luck yet.

I can get pretty much all the pallets I want for free, and have carted several of them home, a p/u bed load at a time, and broken them down (even sprung for a tool to do it with). Made a couple small coops with the slats, but the 2x4 pieces are too short to be of much use to me.
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I just past on some plywood. I may still get it but it’s an interior ply and odd shaped. The good pieces are the exterior signage plywood, the advertising boards we don’t use anymore I will grab those every time. Houses don’t even have that quality.
 
Pensmaster said:
I just past on some plywood. I may still get it but it’s an interior ply and odd shaped. The good pieces are the exterior signage plywood, the advertising boards we don’t use anymore I will grab those every time. Houses don’t even have that quality.
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Yeah, they seem to be all but indestructable. I've never run across them.
 
BullChick said:
:lol: I was contemplating turning on the AC or opening all the windows. My gaze caught the winter gear, but I didn’t even consider putting it away. I am not confident I won’t need it again soon!
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Same! I am going nuts with the laundry right now because we have both our winter and summer clothes out. I just know if I put the winter stuff away it will snow!
 
Been busy all morning and haven't had a ton of time to do anything I need to do. Bleh. I need to fix a couple of issues with the table pen, but now it's raining and I don't want their first day out to be their last.

Update on the eggs, I have a pip! I haven't been able to check in a few hours, but last I checked there was a pip.
 

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