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[MacGuyver]

ok, thanks!! what do the ES do? is it a different type of salt?

Epsom salts contain magnesium, which is another electrolyte. You would have to look up the doseage, but I think at a half teaspoon it would not be enough to cause diarrhea.

 

[Buster52]

i beleave the last roll i ordered from GEMPLERS " but i have also ordered from other places " i recomend at least 70% but 80% is what i use the wider the rolls the LESS expencive it is i ordered the 20' by 100' if i remeber right it was a lettel over 300$ for the roll witch was the cheepest i found last spring a spent a lot of $ on shade but even with the 117 deg days last summer i only lost 2 birds to heat last year witch was great because i know some lost 65% of there flock " i would been heart broken if i had lost 10% could not amagin 65%"

i think the smalles roll you can get is about 12' by 10' and runs about 20$ you should be able to look at there online catalog for pricing and whithd and linths they carry the shade is verry UV resitant and and last for seaveral years there are other ways to give your birds shade but the shade cloth lets the air and breez flow through and with the mister it works almost like i swap cooler when the wind /brezz blows i have been verry happy with the investment i made in shade cloth

Thanks, Joe. How is it in the wind? I was thinking since it was porous it might stand some of our big winds out here better than a solid cover. I have made some very big, nice looking kites with that stuff.

Last summer was when I discovered the turn em loose defense against heat. I kept losing birds to the 110 and 112 days and decided to let them out of their pens to see if they could figure out better defenses than I could. Turns out they could. Didn't lose another bird for the summer. It might not be the best way to cool them in all cases, but for me it was simplest and cheapest.

I will look into this stuff to see what it can do. Maybe buy a small roll to start with to try it out.

 

[Buster52]

Hey Nanakat I think!!! Here is a pic I borrowed, this is NOT my rooster, even though I wish he was, he's gorgeous, but anyways in the back ground you can see the basic of what I was talking about on the cages, I used feed sacks shingled up on both side cause their cheap and more insulating from the heat than a tarp!!! I put my roost pole the opposite way to his too so they are up under the cover when on the roost!! Lynn

Lynn, I plan on using the cattle panel hoop house concept for my day range shelter I'm building for the fall season. It will be on skids and capable of housing 200 broilers. It will be able to open on each end to let them air pass through and let the birds out. I'm also using it for my feed and water shelters. For those I'm planning to use pallets for floor and frame for them, and put small skids on the bottom to pull by hand when I move the shelter and the netting. That way I can put the feed around the enclosure to encourage those lazy Cornish Cross to move around a bit. They will also likely use them for shade I would guess.

I'm always looking for examples to base my plans on, and your pic illustrates the concept beautifully. So, thanks!

 

[Greybear23]

McGuyver, he is a Game Fowl, or per se a Old English (Standard size), they trim the combs and wattles when young for sport or in the show rings the Old English must be trimmed for showing. They only trim the males over one year old. Personally I like them trimmed, they are very sleek and handsome looking I think, they are my favorite breed!!! Lynn

 

[Greybear23]

Buster, I wonder if you use pallets will the birds lay on them and damage their breast, I know the cornish cross are very heavy and don't usually roost, was just wondering!! Would it be to bad to leave a dirt floor in them and move it more often, plus wouldn't the dirt be a little cooler under the shaded areas for them, I know if given the choice my game hens will make a nest in a corner in the dirt rather than use a nest box. JMO!!! Lynn

 

[Oceanseve]

I just noticed from your old posts that you're a good friend of Mefordz. A lot of his friends have been showing up here the past week since he got mad and left.
Hope he's feeling better.

Why'd he get mad? Did he get banned again??

Hey Elwood why not get some suckerod or pvc pipe and use that Trampoline circle for the outside frame of a dome pen!!! You could use the tramp cover for part of the roof for shade and wire or tin around the bottom. JMO!!! Lynn

That's what I was thinking when he said he was looking for a trampoline! I think that would be brilliant!

Instead of super glue try E-6000 glue, we used it when a picture came off a family headstone. 7 years later that picture is still on there.

Never heard of it, what's it for?

LOL Mitzi, Not bionic but I may need a vacation from my summer. Hubby mentioned this morning he wants to take the kids on vacation this year. It has been 4 years since we have had a family vacation. We are thinking about Branson/Silver Dollar City, we went when Matthew was little but the little guys have never been. My hubby deserves alot of credit for what gets done around here. He went yesterday and drove all over central OK gathering things from various places we found on craigslist. Kurt and I just had to unload all the fence panels he got and put them together and put tops on them with wire. I will say that Kurt and Nathanael were amazing help yesterday and this morning.

We spent this afternoon at the stand and had the birds out free ranging for a bit after I got home but a chick hawk swooped the yard and the roos got their hens in pretty quickly. So I put everyone up. I figure they see the new pens and have to see for themselves they can't snatch my little babies out of their pens.

We were supposed to go to branson this month, but our lodging plan fell through. My kids really enjoy it up there. It's such a great place to go back and find new and different things to do.

Just be aware that anything you put on a turtles shell can effect the growth under it, it used to be a big deal to catch and paint turtles on the top of the shell then release them a lot were found later with deformed shells or deceased, It would be better to tattoo, microchip or notch the shell then photo the markings so you can prove it was yours, You could even engrave the plastron or carapace with a dremel tool and it would be permanent and safer than any glue or paint.

Edited for spelling and grammatical errors I have teachers in my family LOL

Yeah, He's large enough that I was planning on putting it on one of the upper domes that's done growing. He's already notched from where he hit a heat lamp when he was younger. That's how I identified him when he got out a few years ago. Poor guy was obviously missing his protein the last month. He's got three or four big divits in his new growth He did grow a lot tho, just not properly. He was NOT happy when I picked him up, he used to be much more complacent, this time he fought me. I think true freedom agreed with him emotionally, just not physically You can tell when he was younger that he had a awful diet. It was before I knew better than to give him the commercial turtle food. I'm proud of how his pyramiding really tapers off tho after that. I know I don't give him enough greens during the winter, but it seems he goes through fluctuations of how much he wants to eat which have nothing to do with the heat! It's so frustrating. I'll load him up with tons of food that ends up spoiling, but then when I back off he suddenly acts like he's starved.

 

[Kassaundra]

We are planning on a trip to Branson this fall. I'm looking forward to the butterflies, I'm sure Gary will want to go to a show. I haven't really planned it out yet.

We really enjoyed our trip to western OK last year. The salt plains, crystal digging, Gloss Mnt, Little Sahara, and the Alabaster Caverns.

 

[Oakieridge]

We are planning on a trip to Branson this fall. I'm looking forward to the butterflies, I'm sure Gary will want to go to a show. I haven't really planned it out yet.

We really enjoyed our trip to western OK last year. The salt plains, crystal digging, Gloss Mnt, Little Sahara, and the Alabaster Caverns.

We used to go to Branson all the time and then work our way back through Eureka Springs. We love to explore all the out of the way things but since we sold our 15 passenger van we haven't been able to take a vacation since we don't have a vehicle big enough for us all. This is the first year we have missed it. I may have to see what it would cost to rent one but that will probably be way out of my price range, lol. We are thinking making it the week following Nathanael's visit to see his transplant team in Omaha,NE then we can go through Iowa and then Missouri and home. I love the shows in Branson but not sure the kids will like them (well the little guys would but the teen group might not, lol).

Ocean the E-6000 is sold in the craft area of Walmart. I make dolls and use it alot in that.

 

[jcatblum]

Was on the USDA website to read up on properly sanitizing eggs. The website says the FDA does not have a published regulation regarding cleaning of eggs shells! Shocking to me personally.

My broody RIR is staying on her nest & not willing to budge. Had a fan on her all afternoon. Her keets should hatch soon, of the heat doesn't get the eggs. DD took her a tomato as a treat & she tucked the tomato under her. Maybe I can get the tomato back tonight. Crazy chicken!

 

[Kassaundra]

Was on the USDA website to read up on properly sanitizing eggs. The website says the FDA does not have a published regulation regarding cleaning of eggs shells! Shocking to me personally.
My broody RIR is staying on her nest & not willing to budge. Had a fan on her all afternoon. Her keets should hatch soon, of the heat doesn't get the eggs. DD took her a tomato as a treat & she tucked the tomato under her. Maybe I can get the tomato back tonight. Crazy chicken!

There should be a warning, I almost blew my Diet Dew through my nose when I read that!!!!!