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[WVduckchick]

I have 2 pips in my incubator right now, one duck egg and one silkie egg e

 

[bamadude]

Because as amazing as your incubator is, Bama, it doesn't hatch out POL.

Hey. Chickadoodles recomended this incubator!

 

[Peep_Show]

I use Calf Manna .. more in the winter than in the summer. Great protein boost!

Ditto on the Calf Manna. Smells better than catfish pellets, too.

 

[tjo804]

Just a thought about the season with my favorite two types of critters

This is great I may have to put it on screen for Christmas dinner with some country Christmas songs lightly in the back ground.

Quote: OH I forgot about Calf Manna I have that on hand. During Molt I usually give them scrambled eggs.but since NO ONE is laying this year for Molt I refuse to buy eggs for the chickens to eat.

They for the most part have been toughin it out on FF. and left over meat from dinner plates.

 

[chickadoodles]

Quote:
Dude I sold my incubators or I would have asked y'all for some eggs.

 

[bamadude]

Dude I sold my incubators or I would have asked y'all for some eggs.

Bummer

 

[Alaskan]

@perchie.girl

There is a lady on facebook that has the most lovely nest boxes.

She says that she got the plan from an extension book 25 years ago.

She puts a heat tape in the middle of the roll of pipe insulation... That the eggs bump up against.

She also said "Here are some pics of our nest boxes. The floors are 1/2" hardware cloth. The floor angle is 1" per foot. It may be possible to modify existing boxes by adding a slanted floor and a covered front compartment for the eggs. The one in the pics is 24x36, but the design can be easily adapted to fit the space you have (rectangular or square)."

In most of the photos it isn't on yet, but she has a hinged perch in front of the two openings so that it can be blocked shut if need be.

The big open/screen side goes up against a coop wall, the way it is made there is a bit of a gap between the wire nest box wall and the coop wall, for some air flow and a very time bit of light.

 

[chickadoodles]

I know dude. Last night when my DH came home he found 2 more hens they had gotten a hold of that I missed. I am so mad at my dogs I can't even stand to look at them right now.

 

[perchie.girl]

@perchie.girl

There is a lady on facebook that has the most lovely nest boxes.

She says that she got the plan from an extension book 25 years ago.








She puts a heat tape in the middle of the roll of pipe insulation... That the eggs bump up against.

She also said "Here are some pics of our nest boxes. The floors are 1/2" hardware cloth. The floor angle is 1" per foot. It may be possible to modify existing boxes by adding a slanted floor and a covered front compartment for the eggs. The one in the pics is 24x36, but the design can be easily adapted to fit the space you have (rectangular or square)."

In most of the photos it isn't on yet, but she has a hinged perch in front of the two openings so that it can be blocked shut if need be.

The big open/screen side goes up against a coop wall, the way it is made there is a bit of a gap between the wire nest box wall and the coop wall, for some air flow and a very time bit of light.

very nice I need to get some prototypes made out of foam core. I need the roll out part to be flush with the coop wall so I can pull a drawer out to gather eggs.

My concept is about the same size with a single door. My coop partitions are six feet wide and I still need to get food and water along the same access point....

coop... With the nests situated I can go down the wall inside out of 105 degree heat an collect eggs. I can also figure out a way to chill them too with water from underneath. part of their water circulation and eventually to their waterer.



Here is a to scale sketch in isometrice... yep I still draft just dont have any tools. execpt a straight edge




In my case I need to keep the eggs cooler in the summer time to give me a day or two to collect.
As it is I may be making that six by six cage door completely hinged so I can get into the coop and vaccume. Yep I am considering building a bg bag vacuume system.exterenally situated where I can open it up right at the compost area. Then I can pressure spray the wood for clenaing. Its dry enough that I can do this on a regular basis.

Each space will be big enough for approximately eighteen LF birds. So I want to do the cleaning part right. Thats why the perches are up at the end over the pop door. Ideally food and water will be outside I want to be able to provide each partition with access to their own. Water I can do outside

I am also considering doing a game bird feeder for outside. OUtside there is pleanty of space for feed stations and enrichment stations. Because I wont be able to free range the LF. Too slow for the predators.

deb

 

[Latestarter]

What some old time farmers used to do was tie the dead chickens to their necks and make them wear them till they got stinky.