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[NotAFarm]

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I think you mean two 16 foot cattle panels

SCG!! Arching the sixteen footers is tough enough, I can't imagine trying to bend an eight footer!

We built one that is being used as a "greenhouse", clear plastic instead of the tarp.

My Eco Glow 50 and Spot Check arrived on Thursday!! I thought about putting it in with the 6 Easter Hatchalong chicks that are in the brooder, but decided to save it's maiden use for this hatch!!

I took a quick look at the eggs........I think I have one non-developer among the turkey eggs......the Golden Campine eggs from debs_flock (that spent five days boncing around the Chicagoland Postal Service) got a "from the top" look with the flashlight to see if I could see any veining.....I'm sure I could see something in three, nothing definative in the rest.....I'll leave them until lockdown unless they get stinky or weepy just in case.....didn't look at the 6 Icelandics eggs.

I have been keeping my temps at the "top end" of the range (100.4) this time. During the Easter Hatchalong, I kept them at 99.5 and had chicks hatching at 21 and 22 days that were sticky. I'm also watching the humidity like a hawk to make sure there aren't any big swings in it. I hope this hatch is much better.

 

[wolftracks]

Cattle panels are the way I would go if I owned my home, but I'm hoping to find a place my this summer with some land. In the meantime I'm making my hoop coops with PVC. I know it doesn't weather as well, but it's cheap and it will be easy to take them apart and move them. I have exactly one second done on the first one. I had just finished it and went to pick up my grand daughter and broke my wrist, them had surgery. Was supposed to pick up wire with my SIL yesterday, but we have some things going on that made us have to put it off till at least today. Hopefully not much longer.

 

[superchemicalgirl]

PVC is also much easier to haul than metal and wood, but we get a lot of storms up here (both the blowing kind and the dumping heavy solid precipitation kind) so we erred on the side of "oh look at how well the hoop coop fared" versus "hey where did our hoop coop go."

I'm not sure they were 16 foot cattle panels. We got them in the back of the truck, which has a short bed. Our coop is less than 5 feet tall, too.

 

[yinepu]

I think you mean two 16 foot cattle panels

SCG!! Arching the sixteen footers is tough enough, I can't imagine trying to bend an eight footer!

We built one that is being used as a "greenhouse", clear plastic instead of the tarp.

we found a way to make it a little easier...

we lay the panels on top of the frame with one end of the cattle panel just on the inside of the frame


then where the end is that's inside the frame.. we use metal strapping to make a few loops to anchor the hoop to the inside of the frame

after that it's just a matter of grabbing the other end and walking it up.. then placing it inside the other side of the frame

my husband can actually do it by himself.. i have to have a little help with him pulling up on the middle as I walk it towards the frame


I still need to take a pic of the coop with both tarps on it.. but this is pretty much the finished thing (made with a total of 5 cattle panels.. 4 fr the length and the 5th cut and welded onto the end..) there are more pics in the link in my signature


ours end up being 8'8" X 16' (inside measurement).. we have several (you can see another one in the background of that last pic) and we're gathering materials for another right now

 

[yinepu]

PVC is also much easier to haul than metal and wood, but we get a lot of storms up here (both the blowing kind and the dumping heavy solid precipitation kind) so we erred on the side of "oh look at how well the hoop coop fared" versus "hey where did our hoop coop go."

I'm not sure they were 16 foot cattle panels. We got them in the back of the truck, which has a short bed. Our coop is less than 5 feet tall, too.

that's the same way we bring ours home... they are 16 feet but when we load them they get bent around like that in order to fit into the bed of our truck.. and ours has a pretty short bed too!

edited to add: I just went out and measured the height of ours.. it's just 6 feet at the top of the arch.. your coop must have a wider base to only have it 5 feet tall

 

[superchemicalgirl]

I swear those are emus in your hoop coop!

We used clamps to clamp the panels to the bottom, then swung them up.

 

[yinepu]

I swear those are emus in your hoop coop!

We used clamps to clamp the panels to the bottom, then swung them up.

lol.. they are emus!



that's the babies "playpen" and sleeping quarters.. a nice safe place for them to play when we can't be out there to supervise them.. at least until they get bigger
lol.. some people use dog kennels.. we use hoop coops!
(we have 9 babies right now.. #10 is due to hatch may 5th)


they have a few young(ish) chicks in with them now.. everyone is playing nice together too

 

[superchemicalgirl]

My ducks are in a dog kennel! A great Craigslist find. I wish I could let them out but I just don't trust them. Once we butcher 3 of them I might let the remaining 2 out, less damage to be done.

Your emus are cute! How many adults do you have?

PS is anyone else's BYC humungous today? Or did I hit a button unwittingly?

 

[yinepu]

My ducks are in a dog kennel! A great Craigslist find. I wish I could let them out but I just don't trust them. Once we butcher 3 of them I might let the remaining 2 out, less damage to be done.

Your emus are cute! How many adults do you have?

PS is anyone else's BYC humungous today? Or did I hit a button unwittingly?

0 adults.. these were from shipped eggs with the last 1 that hatched being from a local egg

 

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