Washingtonians Come Together! Washington Peeps

[VelvettFog]

Before I get more distracted by bantams, I have a technical question: how would y'all go about cutting an eight-foot piece of two-inch PVC pipe into two symetrical, flat, length-wise halves? I want to put skids on the kennel we put together yesterday, and my first impulse is "have somebody else do it, but that ould be WRONG and also would still need direction as to clamping it so it doesn't go all spiral on me (I've done this wrong before, you see). If you could find plain old symetrical U shaped plastic gutter anymore, I'd use that (although it's really too wide), but I haven't seen anything except the asymetrical stuff lately

Dragged the Shopvac up to the Wyandotte coop, and will go string the extension cord in another half-glass of water (there was a bunch of other stuff in the past four hours, including checking cows and checking feeders and putting the sheep and the Bd'A in their daytime positions and getting a 3X50 foot roll of 1" mesh chicken wire where I need it.).

So anyway: any brilliant ideas about cutting that pipe? I'll probably be using one of those quick-cut handsaws and I have four clamps I can use although there's an open question as to what I'll clamp it to.

Bandsaw?

 

[Stumpfarmer]

I keep going back and forth on weather or not I want to use broody hens or if I want to continue using the incubator and brooder method for chicks going forward.  D'anvers are such sweet little birds.  I had some for about 4 years that I brought back from Ohio when I went there for the joint national some years ago.  If I ever decide to actually focus on a bantam breed again they'll be in the running for sure.

My dark brahmas don't care for the camera much either (of course none of the chicks really seem to) but I'm hoping at the very least some of them turn out ok.

I suspect I'd have the same problem with partridge pattern, too- tweed clothing also confuses the camera.

I got my d'Anvers from a young woman in Centralia who is on BYC and Facebook and is the western VP of the Bantam Society; she's got pretty, pretty Barbu d'Anvers, and has Watermaals and a couple of true bantams, I think. I'm not so interested in breeding d'Anvers because the roosters have a bad reputation, and am still looking for Porcelain OEGBs to breed at least partly because I've hung out with a few hundred of the roosters over the years and they seem pretty human-positive.

 

[Stumpfarmer]

Before I get more distracted by bantams, I have a technical question: how would y'all go about cutting an eight-foot piece of two-inch PVC pipe into two symetrical, flat, length-wise halves? I want to put skids on the kennel we put together yesterday, and my first impulse is "have somebody else do it, but that ould be WRONG and also would still need direction as to clamping it so it doesn't go all spiral on me (I've done this wrong before, you see). If you could find plain old symetrical U shaped plastic gutter anymore, I'd use that (although it's really too wide), but I haven't seen anything except the asymetrical stuff lately


Dragged the Shopvac up to the Wyandotte coop, and will go string the extension cord in another half-glass of water (there was a bunch of other stuff in the past four hours, including checking cows and checking feeders and putting the sheep and the Bd'A in their daytime positions and getting a 3X50 foot roll of 1" mesh chicken wire where I need it.).


So anyway: any brilliant ideas about cutting that pipe? I'll probably be using one of those quick-cut handsaws and I have four clamps I can use although there's an open question as to what I'll clamp it to.

Bandsaw?

Got none, and I'm not succeeding in the "get somebody else to do it" thing on this project.

 

[ChickAudie]

 

[Stumpfarmer]

Oh, well, off to beat my head against assorted chores and projects, I guess.

 

[BGMatt]

I suspect I'd have the same problem with partridge pattern, too- tweed clothing also confuses the camera.

I got my d'Anvers from a young woman in Centralia who is on BYC and Facebook and is the western VP of the Bantam Society; she's got pretty, pretty Barbu d'Anvers, and has Watermaals and a couple of true bantams, I think. I'm not so interested in breeding d'Anvers because the roosters have a bad reputation, and am still looking for Porcelain OEGBs to breed at least partly because I've hung out with a few hundred of the roosters over the years and they seem pretty human-positive.

All my cockerels and cock birds were friendly, so it might be a line by line thing. Mine came from Labluv Bantams in Georgia, I know he's still breeding them. I sold them to some lady from up north, don't remember a name or anything, they were the quail variety. No clue on Porcelain OEGB's, I recently saw some of the best Self-Blue/Lavender OEGB's I've ever seen though I like those softer colors, but something with that gene can really hurt feather quality.

 

[bikerchicky]

when I got home last night there were almost one hundred posts I had missed, so this may have been inspired by something else, but with as close as I came to a fire I want to agree with CR. even if every thing is put together well things can and do go wrong. it is never worth it to cut corners on electric work.

I built all of our brood buildings and brooder boxes myself(ok dw's dad helped alot) we not only use the cermeriac bases, but also added thermostates to regulated temp and save electricity. our issue was an unrelated circuit breaker that failed without tripping. it was directly across from the main breaker in the sub panel and directly above the breakers for two of the buildings. they were the first to loose power and the start of my investigation. the breaker that failed melted and fused eight other breakers including the main to the panel. when moved to the off position the main was still hot. ths could have easily burned down the shop and or killed someone. I have not seen a breaker fail in this mannor before and I have said more than one thankyou prayer since discovering it. We had an angle watching over us.

the circuit tht failed had a ground fault in it that will be fixed and we will run continuity tests on all circuits as well as up grade all of the plugs for brooders and mill equipment and add new switches and a remote breaker for the mill circuit.

Thank goodness for angels watching over us. So glad to hear this didn't become a worse situation for you Paul.

 

[VelvettFog]

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You should be able to see the mites. Look around the vent, at the base of the feathers. What I can do is to take what you describe and make a guess

You need to examine the bird, and make the best decision you can. Don't just treat for mites because my guess is mites, and don't just treat for cocci because Jess suggests that. The best treatment is going to be the treatment for what's wrong. That's the hard part, figuring out what's wrong.

 

[CarolynF]

You should be able to see the mites. Look around the vent, at the base of the feathers. What I can do is to take what you describe and make a guess

You need to examine the bird, and make the best decision you can. Don't just treat for mites because my guess is mites, and don't just treat for cocci because Jess suggests that. The best treatment is going to be the treatment for what's wrong. That's the hard part, figuring out what's wrong.

Thanks Dave. Do you know how warm her comb should feel?

 

[VelvettFog]

I've decided that as soon as I can get myself another small coop in the yard, I'm going to try and find some bantam Salmon Favs to live together in that coop. Probably 3-4 of them. I've been absolutely intrigued with this breed for almost a year but I don't want the docile little things to have to brave my big girl coop. I hope to make enough egg money this summer to get a small coop/run (like the Foursquare coop on MPC) for these birds. We will see if I can make it happen!

Those are 450 bucks! Schnikes!

At 4.50 a doz, you only need to sell 100 doz - wait - food cost?


The design you mention is a lot like what I built for Dana and Robin. I think the materials for that ran about 220 bucks? With a year to plan and gather items, I'll betcha you can build that coop for very close to 50 bucks. That would be mostly the hardware cloth. I can help with plans and such if you like.