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Alaskan, If I lived up there, My whole house would be a greenhouse, well lit lol. How you guys do it, I'm in awe.
Greenhouse and coop will be a 48 ft run, oriented east west so that the only sun blocked would be very early in the am. A buddy gave me about 20 pieces of tempered glass for storm doors, so there will be windows everywhere. I'm going to use Suntuf polycarbonate on the greenhouse roof, and a combo of suntuf and tin roofing for the coop.
I'll be insulating heavily in the greenhouse for the winter, The common wall will have a woodstove on the greenhouse side. I'm hoping for heat bleedthrough to keep water unfrozen. A thermosyphon of about 16 55gallon barrels of water hooked to the stove for thermal mass.
I've been waiting a long time on this and have studied solar and thermal physics in the mean time lol. I think with a little boost from the woodstove at nights and during February when we have lots of clouds, I can keep it above freezing.
Yep, personality will be a big cull factor. I live way out in the country, so backyard chickens are everywhere. I had a roo when the girls were young that was mean. He tried to flog one of them, ended up in the soup pot that night. 4 yr old said the best dumplings she had ever had lol.
I want to develop a sexlink colored egg layer that is big enough for the cockerals to be meat birds. To support this, I'm selling chicks, birds that don't cut the breeding program, compost and the odd egg. The greenhouse is to start herbs and veg to be sold. The swap meet over here is a great place. Twice a month, no charge to sell, bring whatever you want to sell. And they are a chicken breeder of RIR and have a hatching service too.
Greenhouse and coop will be a 48 ft run, oriented east west so that the only sun blocked would be very early in the am. A buddy gave me about 20 pieces of tempered glass for storm doors, so there will be windows everywhere. I'm going to use Suntuf polycarbonate on the greenhouse roof, and a combo of suntuf and tin roofing for the coop.
I'll be insulating heavily in the greenhouse for the winter, The common wall will have a woodstove on the greenhouse side. I'm hoping for heat bleedthrough to keep water unfrozen. A thermosyphon of about 16 55gallon barrels of water hooked to the stove for thermal mass.
I've been waiting a long time on this and have studied solar and thermal physics in the mean time lol. I think with a little boost from the woodstove at nights and during February when we have lots of clouds, I can keep it above freezing.
Yep, personality will be a big cull factor. I live way out in the country, so backyard chickens are everywhere. I had a roo when the girls were young that was mean. He tried to flog one of them, ended up in the soup pot that night. 4 yr old said the best dumplings she had ever had lol.
I want to develop a sexlink colored egg layer that is big enough for the cockerals to be meat birds. To support this, I'm selling chicks, birds that don't cut the breeding program, compost and the odd egg. The greenhouse is to start herbs and veg to be sold. The swap meet over here is a great place. Twice a month, no charge to sell, bring whatever you want to sell. And they are a chicken breeder of RIR and have a hatching service too.