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[jaybobrenn]

Note to self.
When feeding chickens take egg basket.
Do not put eggs in coat pocket .

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Lol I did the same thing the other day.

 

[NanaKat]

Thinking out loud again....
How hot does the surface of the clay pot get?
Definitely don't want it to be hot enough to smolder in the wood shavings should it get knocked down.


Check out this thread. She lost her whole barn and most of her flock.
BackYard Chickens › BYC Forum › Raising BackYard Chickens › Coop & Run - Design, Construction, & Maintenance › Fire Safety in your Chicken Coop & Barn - IMPORTANT!
She has a great reminder list for safety in our coops and buildings.

 

[aShMaNv]

Hello! I haven't been on here in forever! It was really great to get back on. This was always one of my favorite threads and it put a smile on my face to see it again. I just wanted to check back in. I hope everyone is staying safe in this awful weather.
Oh and is anyone else tired of watering with a bucket yet lol?

 

[Ksane]

Thinking out loud again....
How hot does the surface of the clay pot get?
Definitely don't want it to be hot enough to smolder in the wood shavings should it get knocked down.


Check out this thread. She lost her whole barn and most of her flock.
BackYard Chickens › BYC Forum › Raising BackYard Chickens › Coop & Run - Design, Construction, & Maintenance › Fire Safety in your Chicken Coop & Barn - IMPORTANT!
She has a great reminder list for safety in our coops and buildings.

Fires are so scary to me. I've got the big 10" brooder lamps and they're secured by the clamp, the hanger ring and then the actual cord is secured with those u shaped nail things in several places.

Christina, yes I still have Channing ) God willing he'll be with me for many years to come. He's got a huge cage in the loft where our bedroom is. He can look down the loft steps and see out into the livingroom and kitchen both when he's in his cage. He still watched movies with me but now him and the Chihuahua have to share.

 

[2A371]

Thinking out loud again....
How hot does the surface of the clay pot get?
Definitely don't want it to be hot enough to smolder in the wood shavings should it get knocked down.


Check out this thread. She lost her whole barn and most of her flock.
BackYard Chickens › BYC Forum › Raising BackYard Chickens › Coop & Run - Design, Construction, & Maintenance › Fire Safety in your Chicken Coop & Barn - IMPORTANT!
She has a great reminder list for safety in our coops and buildings.

That was my biggest concern. It's hotter than I care to hold on to for very long, but I didn't think it was hot enough to burn anything. So, I put it to a test after reading your post. I put some shavings on top of it and monitored it for about 30 minutes. The shavings didn't even change color. Then just to satisfy my own curiosity, I put some chicken poo on there thinking maybe it was more combustible than the chips....it didn't smolder at all. I left the light on durring both tests. If it were to fall off the pot would begin to cool. So I feel safe about it. As I am writing this I am thinking about putting a feather on it too. If the shavings were pushed up to the bottom of it by the chickens I still think I'm safe because the bottom was noticeably less warm than the top. Thanks for asking btw, it made my chickens safer by doing some tests! I always worried about the glass bulb getting pecked at and broken by the chickens. Don't have to worry now.

 

[NanaKat]

Good that you did your tests...better safe than sorry.

With winter weather as we have had, the temptation is to rig something temporary to keep our birds warm...must be very careful.

 

[Sagetown]

Okay; I'm from SE Oklahoma, near Ft. Smith, Arkansas. Back in the 70's after I returned from Vietnam, I moved my young family back here to the old ranch house after Mom and Dad built a new home closer to civilization.

I raised a garden, chickens, geese, ducks, pheasants, rabbits, turkeys, barn cats, stray dogs, cattle, bottle fed orphan calves, hogs, sheep, horses and their foals, goats, kept a milk cow that I milked twice a day (hint ~ the barn cats. They love fresh milk, and my daughter loved kittens). Wheeu; No wonder I'm tired.
So, now, the kids have married, and gone. Don't have a need for much, other than a few longhorn cows, a couple of old ewes, and some old range hens. I've always wanted Rhode Island Red Bantam chickens for some reason. So, after varmits caught most of my range hens, I ordered those RI's, but got a call, and the hatchery was out of them , it being late August of 2013, so I ended up with 10 Japanese White Blacktails, and 15 Buff Orpingtons. Of all of those, most were Cockerels, which has left me with a mere 4 Buffs, and 4 Japs, and one of them is a Roo. Being retired , I have plenty of time on my hands to spend with them and chat about chickens, the country and the farm in general, so here I am.

 

[greenbeetle]

Okay; I'm from SE Oklahoma, near Ft. Smith, Arkansas. Back in the 70's after I returned from Vietnam, I moved my young family back here to the old ranch house after Mom and Dad built a new home closer to civilization.

I raised a garden, chickens, geese, ducks, pheasants, rabbits, turkeys, barn cats, stray dogs, cattle, bottle fed orphan calves, hogs, sheep, horses and their foals, goats, kept a milk cow that I milked twice a day (hint ~ the barn cats. They love fresh milk, and my daughter loved kittens). Wheeu; No wonder I'm tired.
So, now, the kids have married, and gone. Don't have a need for much, other than a few longhorn cows, a couple of old ewes, and some old range hens. I've always wanted Rhode Island Red Bantam chickens for some reason. So, after varmits caught most of my range hens, I ordered those RI's, but got a call, and the hatchery was out of them , it being late August of 2013, so I ended up with 10 Japanese White Blacktails, and 15 Buff Orpingtons. Of all of those, most were Cockerels, which has left me with a mere 4 Buffs, and 4 Japs, and one of them is a Roo. Being retired , I have plenty of time on my hands to spend with them and chat about chickens, the country and the farm in general, so here I am.

 

[miohippus]

Okay; I'm from SE Oklahoma, near Ft. Smith, Arkansas. Back in the 70's after I returned from Vietnam, I moved my young family back here to the old ranch house after Mom and Dad built a new home closer to civilization.

I raised a garden, chickens, geese, ducks, pheasants, rabbits, turkeys, barn cats, stray dogs, cattle, bottle fed orphan calves, hogs, sheep, horses and their foals, goats, kept a milk cow that I milked twice a day (hint ~ the barn cats. They love fresh milk, and my daughter loved kittens). Wheeu; No wonder I'm tired.
So, now, the kids have married, and gone. Don't have a need for much, other than a few longhorn cows, a couple of old ewes, and some old range hens. I've always wanted Rhode Island Red Bantam chickens for some reason. So, after varmits caught most of my range hens, I ordered those RI's, but got a call, and the hatchery was out of them , it being late August of 2013, so I ended up with 10 Japanese White Blacktails, and 15 Buff Orpingtons. Of all of those, most were Cockerels, which has left me with a mere 4 Buffs, and 4 Japs, and one of them is a Roo. Being retired , I have plenty of time on my hands to spend with them and chat about chickens, the country and the farm in general, so here I am.

 

[miohippus]

Hello! I haven't been on here in forever! It was really great to get back on. This was always one of my favorite threads and it put a smile on my face to see it again. I just wanted to check back in. I hope everyone is staying safe in this awful weather.
Oh and is anyone else tired of watering with a bucket yet lol?

I defiantly am!!