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[perchie.girl]

Where can I find one of those?

Lowes, Home depot, ACE Hardware.... but if your humidity goes above 20 percent they dont work as well.

They run from about 200 dollars to about 500 depending on the cubic feet of space you need to cool.

deb

 

[perchie.girl]

Your welcome dude! Congrats! And you don't want a swamp cooler here they don't even sell them here in AL. I tried to get one after I moved here. No one sells them here, it is the wrong part of the country. Swamp coolers are used in the dry desert to add moisture in the air.

Deb when we lived in Vista we had AC, I would not have wanted a swamp cooler there. Every day at 2 pm I had to put my sweater on from the breeze coming off the ocean in Oceanside.

You dont need AC even in Vista.... just some good fans to draw in the fresh air. Vista is a coastal town

But swamp coolers do chill the air. Evaporative cooling brings the temps down 15 degrees. So 95 becomes 80 and I am happy with that.

I have even considered taking the pieces parts from the three others I have here and making a whole cooler for the coop... I plan to spend some time in there once it gets built.

deb

 

[chickadoodles]

Quote: For the most part we did not use it but we did have it.

 

[perchie.girl]

Deb, I am raising turkey and they need the heat for at least the first week or so. But I am still hatching and adding the new poults in the same brooder for the older turkey to brood for me.

I hope you will get broody everything that you want to raise.

Oh I dont intend on not heating them. I am just saying at 95 degrees ambient temperature they should be pretty comfortable. The brooder will be a big one and there will be heat available for those who want it. I am leaning toward one of those heat slabs like @ronott1 spoke about.

Sumatras are Brooding machines... Those are the chickens I want to start with.... Not quite large fowl but not bantam either. but I have to hatch and brood them myself to get started. Or go with Sandhill but I dont know if they are going to get wiped out with this "plague" going on.

deb

 

[ronott1]

Oh I dont intend on not heating them. I am just saying at 95 degrees ambient temperature they should be pretty comfortable. The brooder will be a big one and there will be heat available for those who want it. I am leaning toward one of those heat slabs like @ronott1 spoke about.

Sumatras are Brooding machines... Those are the chickens I want to start with.... Not quite large fowl but not bantam either. but I have to hatch and brood them myself to get started. Or go with Sandhill but I dont know if they are going to get wiped out with this "plague" going on.

deb

Premier 1 has very nice brooder plates and they cost less than the Brinsea plates. Here it is warm enough that the chicks only need them at night after a couple of weeks.

 

[vehve]

Broodies also work well for heating chicks

 

[ronott1]

@ronott1 , @chickadoodles : this 1588 is gangsta. Thanks for the advice. Just candled and 100% shows veining

That is great news! If the eggs are fertile, they will do well in the Genesis 1588. It can be harder for shipped eggs or rooms with temperatures that vary a lot. For places like that, wood or plastic incubators are a better choice.

 

[superchemicalgirl]

Bama, I just started my tomato seeds

 

[bamadude]

Bama, I just started my tomato seeds

Cool.
Those will get huge and make huge fruits. They will outgrow regular tomato cages. We call those slocomb tomatos because they are grown in slocomb AL. We grill them when they
are green

 

[bamadude]

They are super sweet when ripe