She said/He said Who's right? Who's wrong? No one!

I'm gonna let it go, because I know it hurt, but you know what they say. "Fool me once..."

ha! Pretty sure that doesn't go in the 'letting it go" category. lollllll

Sorry about your eye, Amy. I know how you feel. My left eye got damaged one time and the pupil dilated and remained that way for two days! Made my sinuses run and gave me a horrible migraine as well. Time to put some safety goggles on when you go in there. lol
 
Ok, looking for basic design requirements for my multi-purpose young chicken coop/run. The roofed coop area is 24' x 8', and I am planning a run area outside (using that pool fencing I posted about before, with plastic deer mesh as a roof). Using one spreadsheet model, I could end up with 212 birds in that space. They would be a mixture of ages, from 2-3 week-old (hens and roos) to 14 week-old roos. Hens move to the main coop at 8 weeks, or processing at 10 weeks. FWIW, I am adding an outdoor run to the main coop also.

I'm only looking for numbers for the young chicken run, really. I can figure out the roosting requirements, its really just floor space per bird I'm asking about. For example, can you tell me how much space a 3 week-old 8 week-old, and 14 week-old needs? Just ball parks...lolz, I know this sounds dumb, I should just give them all the space I can and get over it...but my biggest fear is that I put so many birds together and wake up the next morning to find half of them with bloody beaks, and the other half dead.
 
Sorry about your eye, Amy. I know how you feel. My left eye got damaged one time and the pupil dilated and remained that way for two days! Made my sinuses run and gave me a horrible migraine as well. Time to put some safety goggles on when you go in there. lol

Amy, I think you should get a Freddy Kruger hockey mask and go and scare the bageesus outta the one that pecked you....
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Hey, camera buffs...question for you. I'd like to get photos of each of my birds, but by myself its hard to hold them let alone use 2 hands to take the pic with my camera phone (which sucks anyway). So, what's cheap, doesn't require 2 hands to get a focused picture (as in it auto focuses and doesn't need me to press a little for it to focus, then press some more), and can take a bunch of pictures quickly (so I can pick the one where the chick isn't flapping its wings or turned away from the camera). It also needs a flash that can keep up with the picture taking. The Canon EOS Rebel T5 seems to have all the features I want, but up here its C$400, just wondered if anyone can think of a cheaper one??

I recommend the easyshare.

http://www.amazon.com/Kodak-Easyshare-Digital-Camera-5xOptical/dp/B000H91K7Q

45 bucks.

Edit: Didn't see that latest post. Nice rig. Of course, this would have saved you about $400 bucks, but whatevs.
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