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[barbiegirl]

I may not be that great in math but my chicken math skills are excellent!

My first chick hatched out already!!! I don't know what it is, GLW rooster over GLW, barred rocks, and 2 cuckoo marans (know it's not the marans but there are pips in those eggs) and one little polish banty (her egg has a hole with a beak out of it, the other egg nothing yet). The little chick looks all black and wet, Maybe after it dries I can figure out what the little one is!

 

[stake]

Stake, could you go into more details on how you would use this for hawk cover, I like that idea in my big pen, they have nothing but bare soil in a large section.

Wing:

I've seen where folks have hawk protectors in their fields...its a 2"x4" x8' cut into four legs....attach to a 4'x8' piece of plywood....place in the middle of the field....if the chooks see a hawk they run under it....most hawks won't fly in and try to walk under the plywood...its too risky for the hawk....my girls all hide under bushes if the hawks fly by....the hawks see them but won't fly in....

I'd make sure the lowest perch is 18" or so off the ground then place some plywood across the bottom....

 

[stake]

stake, that's mean, sending blarney off to figure out the Pythagorean theory!

Construction slopes for roofs (unlike other things like grading soil) are usually represented in inches per ft, rather than angles. That makes the height of the eaves rather simple to calculate. For ex, if is says to do 8 inches per 10 ft, then you want (8 / 10 =) .8 ft per ft (horizontal width from eave to ridge). If you are making a 24ft wide coop and have the ridge in the middle, divide by 2 (12) and multiply by the .8 to get 9.6 inches taller at the ridge than the eaves. Make it 10 inches, precision isn't needed here. For coops, you might not be making it level, but these calcs assume that, so you might be able to reduce to account for the slope already on the coop.

For figuring how long the roof will be, technically you need to computer the hypotenuse and all, but you want some overhang and material comes in standard sizes you may been to cut, so just add the height (10 inches) to the width (12 ft per side) and round up. If the roofing only comes in 12 and 14 ft and you don't want a seam (because you're lazy like me), the math says you should reduce the 12 ft to 11 or increase it to 13 (quick recheck - 13 x .8 = 10.4 inches).

What I always loved about word problems like this is that common sense self-checks you math. If you think about the structure, it makes sense that a 12 ft panel can't cover a 12 ft roof if you intend to raise one side up, even an inch. and if decimal points frustrate you check the 9.6 against the alternatives, does .96 or 96 inches make sense in the context? Common sense when constructing something is better than precise plans any day, of course both might be optimal.

DH:

"Mean" is my middle name, lol....I went to the same high school as Blarney...most likely we had the same math classes...the Pythagorean theorem is pretty standard geometry...and great for carpentry projects....

 

[wingstone]

I am aging myself here, but when I went to high school it was all about, reading, writing and arithmetic, as long as you knew those you were set for life..

Typing class was an elective, and no it was not an electric typewriter.

If they are teaching all these advanced classes, then why does it seem as though society is getting stupid....just how I see it..

And I also think that there's a big difference between book smart and life smart...

 

[wingstone]

Genetics, now they confuse the ### out of me.

The bantam Cochin are hatching mostly black, that pen is the mille fleur ( need to talk to blarney to get the background on them) and the one Wheaton rooster...so can I assume that Wheaton over mille fleur will throw black.

Did you ever play the card game Spades (a simplified version of Bridge)? Genetics are like Spades where their are genes that function like the Spade cards that can trump any other suit. In color genetics that would equate to Dominant White. Then their are genes like the Diamond cards which can trump anything but a Spade. Then their are the Hearts which can can trump the Clubs. And poor recessive Clubs just doesn't get to show unless it it the only cards on the table.

Now this is a loose analogy. It doesn't explain co-dominance where two equally dominant genes express simultaneously. If you were to force a Spades analogy then these genes would be Hearts. I have found that a familiar Loose Analogy is sometimes a good framework to start an understanding of a subject and you just catalog the differences in the Analogy to the Reality of the situation.

Genetics, now they confuse the ### out of me.

The bantam Cochin are hatching mostly black, that pen is the mille fleur ( need to talk to blarney to get the background on them) and the one Wheaton rooster...so can I assume that Wheaton over mille fleur will throw black.

Thank you
That really does make sense, I will have to keep that in mind when looking at genetics.


Did you ever play the card game Spades (a simplified version of Bridge)? Genetics are like Spades where their are genes that function like the Spade cards that can trump any other suit. In color genetics that would equate to Dominant White. Then their are genes like the Diamond cards which can trump anything but a Spade. Then their are the Hearts which can can trump the Clubs. And poor recessive Clubs just doesn't get to show unless it it the only cards on the table.

Now this is a loose analogy. It doesn't explain co-dominance where two equally dominant genes express simultaneously. If you were to force a Spades analogy then these genes would be Hearts. I have found that a familiar Loose Analogy is sometimes a good framework to start an understanding of a subject and you just catalog the differences in the Analogy to the Reality of the situation.

 

[wingstone]

This I could use.

http://m.hometalk.com/#!/493273/canning-cupboard-made-from-recycled-pallets?se=wkly&tk=ag7j0f

 

[wingstone]

A recipe for pickled cabbage, how close to kraut do you think this would be?
I am not suppose to ever make the real stuff again, apparently hubby hates the smell.

http://www.littlehouseliving.com/canning-cabbage-how-to-make-sauerkraut.html

 

[Sally Sunshine]

Quote: Yums!!!! got a banana bread recipe? I have tried abunch, I just want a moist cake like bread! not bread bread

Hi All,

New to chicken raising - we got our first chickens last month (3 year and a half old hens).

and of course I have a question - does anyone know where in Berks County I can find organic chicken feed?

No clue! Berks too, NORTH

This is an article on hog butchering, so please do not go here if you are squeimish,,,, in one of the later parts they are cooking sausage for canning, it does not give details so I am wondering if anyone would know how to control a pressure cooker on a fire like this..

http://www.backwoodshome.com/articles2/sanders142.html

Wow they have alot of fat dont they!

Well I went to clean out the duck pond today, and I found that my only Russian Orloff hen had committed Hari-Kari.....I hope that this wont be a trend among the chickens.

so sad, I was scared of that too, DH always complained at all the cement blocks I added to the pond! I would have lost some chickens too!

Finally got the grow out pen and protect pen fenced off from the other pen. They will be so glad to get outside in the fresh air!

great timing Ray! I am sure they are loving it!

Quote: Oh how adorable, ach du gut and an eye eye or I I or aye aye how do you spell that? lol

This is cute, but mine would sleep on it instead of going inside.

ditto that!

Quote: x2 awesome!

Quote: Sharron how your chicks doing? you put them outside yet?

I am excited today. I have 3 pips going on in my incubator. Tomorrow was the due date. I can't wait to see what my banty Polish (white crested black) and my large fowl golden laced roo chick will look like. Yup that egg is one of the first to pip with a big hole!



And my Polish mix

go chickies go!!!

 

[Sally Sunshine]

Does anybody know if ducklings would be able to drink and eat from these

ducks are a mess, this is what we do to keep the mess to a min..... scroll to the waterers and feeders section https://www.backyardchickens.com/a/duckling-care-brooder-ideas

 

[wingstone]

Does anybody know if ducklings would be able to drink and eat from these

ducks are a mess, this is what we do to keep the mess to a min..... scroll to the waterers and feeders section https://www.backyardchickens.com/a/duckling-care-brooder-ideas

Sally I do a lot of ducks and they got messy till we put them in a rabbit cage with a small priority mail box used for a dry area, this is easily changed and the mess drops to the pan below