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

[WalnutHill]

You are missing the point of my offer. I want to see someone get poked in the eye

Watch the Three Stooges

 

[NTBugtraq]

Trail cam. Let the birds take their own photos, you just choose the keepers. Mount it at top-of-back level.

I have a Nikon and want a trail cam for the bird shots.

Well, all my birds are currently under a roof, so no light most of the time. I want one of those for predators, but I gotta make some money to justify that...lolz, but that saying, I keep buying toys...lolz

 

[RubyNala97]

Ruby, make a decision...its dead, crack it and you will confirm that. Its alive, crack it and you will confirm that. Before you do, write down everything you think you saw, all your impressions, and what you think the outcome will be. But darn it, do it...you learn nothing by doing nothing.

Ok you're right. I'm cracking it first thing in the morning. I'll write down my observations first while drinking my coffee.

 

[NTBugtraq]

Watch the Three Stooges

Not mine, they are now the 3 Musketeers

 

[WalnutHill]

A man like scflock has got a great big hole, right in the middle of him. He can never kill enough, or steal enough, or inflict enough pain to ever fill it.

Buy yourself something to restore, either a house or a classic car. All your other worries, nay all your other priorities, will go down the drain feeding the beast that is a restoration project.

This advice comes from someone who has restored 20+ classic cars and a few 19th century houses.. retired licensed restoration contractor and retired widely known Firebird restoration specialist...yours truly, the turkey nut.

 

[WVduckchick]

I love my trail cams during deer season. Addicting I tell ya. I've had 6 over the past 5 or 6 years, still use 4 of them. One us currently aimed on my chicken coop to watch for predators. They just take black and white pics when its dark, but still pretty good.
The last 2 I bought were refurbished ones, just like the one I like the most, because they don't make it any more. So I got the refurbs for like $125 for the pair.

 

[WVduckchick]

Buy yourself something to restore, either a house or a classic car.  All your other worries, nay all your other priorities, will go down the drain feeding the beast that is a restoration project.

This advice comes from someone who has restored 20+ classic cars and a few 19th century houses.. retired licensed restoration contractor and retired widely known Firebird restoration specialist...yours truly, the turkey nut.

Very cool and impressive! A woman of many talents!!

 

[WalnutHill]

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.

From my experience with higher density stocking of standard class large fowl, 4-6 lb at maturity:

10 birds need 10 sq feet for 2 weeks
20 sq feet for the next 2 weeks
40 sq feet at one month
80 sq feet at two months
100 sq feet at maturity as a bare minimum

You're about 10% under, but if you cull 10% over time you will be fine, or if you provide run space in addition to coop space.

Mixing ages with chickens is risky. They do damage to weaker members. Turkeys don't as a rule.

 

[WalnutHill]

What do you call it when you start one thing, then see something else and do that, then something else...etc... That's me. I go out to cut scapes, see some weeds, then weed for a while, then I hear the chickens so I feed them, and while doing that realize the darn latch on the coop door is sticking again, so...etc... At some point I sit down for a smoke, and then it hits me..."Oh yeah, scapes!" so the process starts again.

You call that, "me". And for some reason my managers want to clone me because I am "exceptionally effective and efficient". If they knew I spent 80% of my workday on this site, I wonder if they'd change their mind? I am just lazy when chained to a desk, and when away from my desk bounce around just as you described. Start something, start 10 more things, remember I should cook dinner, forget until someone whines about not having anything to eat, go fetch groceries, remember that I wanted to make something else, start cooking, dinner at 9 p.m....

 

[WalnutHill]

Very cool and impressive! A woman of many talents!!

More like easily distracted and easily bored. But yeah, I have a few things I am passionate about, and when I take something on, watch out.