Texas

[Little Wing]

Last summer I would put ice in their water cooler that feeds the nipple waterers.

 

[melonboi]

Hello everyone. I am new to the forum and have recently moved to East Texas to the big city of Carthage. Are there any memnbers in my area?

 

[chickletteSarge]

Hello everyone. I am new to the forum and have recently moved to East Texas to the big city of Carthage. Are there any memnbers in my area?

check out the map that Little Wing started up! its full of balloons to show where we all are...https://www.backyardchickens.com/t/740342/interactive-byc-map
dont forget to put your mark on the map as well!
oh yea ya gotta hav a google acct to do that its free... if ya got a smart fone ya should have a google acct for the apps....

 

[Aphrael]

Anyone near Fort Worth?

I am sort of near -ish... If you consider around a 4 hour drive near.

 

[showbarnmom]

I am sort of near -ish... If you consider around a 4 hour drive near.

4 hours is pretty close any where in Texas!

 

[Aphrael]

I used misters a couple of years ago.. with the hard well water they were clogged within a month so I had to soak them in a calcium remover.. after dealing with that headache I resorted to just spraying the birds down when I would go check on them.. last summer I had the birds in coops and thought they would roast in there.. but we oriented them so they face South where we have a pretty constant breeze during the summer.. Didn't lose a single chicken until there was a fire nearby and the smoke was so thick you couldn't breathe without coughing..
They loved the misters when they were working properly.. I think the temperature under the misters was a good 10 to 15 degrees cooler (if not a bit more)

For the hard water you don't have to resort to the calcium remover chemicals. You can just soak it in pure white vinegar and it will dissolve it right off. In my experience at least, it works way better than any of the hard water remover chemicals I have tried. How long to soak depends on how much has caked up on it. I have to do all my water dishes every few months to clean off the icky hard crust. A 15 minute soak and wipe and rinse and they are good as new, no more crust.

 

[cmcanallen]

Anyone near Fort Worth? :yiipchick

I'm near Tyler, so only a 2&1/2 hr drive

 

[yinepu]

For the hard water you don't have to resort to the calcium remover chemicals. You can just soak it in pure white vinegar and it will dissolve it right off. In my experience at least, it works way better than any of the hard water remover chemicals I have tried. How long to soak depends on how much has caked up on it. I have to do all my water dishes every few months to clean off the icky hard crust. A 15 minute soak and wipe and rinse and they are good as new, no more crust.

It laughed at the vinegar.. our well water seems like it's about 90% limestone!

seriously.. that stuff will completely eat through a new kitchen faucet is less than a year

 

[chicken fever]

anyone interested in broad bread turkey poults? I will have about 6 extra that I will need to be selling...$10 ea

 

[cmcanallen]

If I had my coop ready, I'd take them in a heartbeat. Maybe I can convince the dh that now is the time....