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[mikeyb]

OMG! I'm laughing now... but geez... just about had a panic attack. My husband just came into the house with a box that had been shipped next day air. The box has "rush" & "perishable" written all over it. He came in scolding me that I must not have cancelled with the guy I was planning to buy Brahma eggs from. I told him I never even gave him my mailing address. He didn't believe me.

We opened the box. There was a cooler inside. DH is still telling me I must have ordered *something* and it better not be eggs. I kept saying I didn't. "I swear! I didn't!" He's still not believing me. So we opened the cooler. Guess what was inside?

His eye medication! LOL!

Whew! I'm off the hook! I know I'm getting to be middle-aged, but I couldn't for the life of me remember what I could have possibly ordered.

Oh oooo, advantage wife!

 

[SadieSue]

OMG! I'm laughing now... but geez... just about had a panic attack. My husband just came into the house with a box that had been shipped next day air. The box has "rush" & "perishable" written all over it. He came in scolding me that I must not have cancelled with the guy I was planning to buy Brahma eggs from. I told him I never even gave him my mailing address. He didn't believe me.

We opened the box. There was a cooler inside. DH is still telling me I must have ordered *something* and it better not be eggs. I kept saying I didn't. "I swear! I didn't!" He's still not believing me. So we opened the cooler. Guess what was inside?

His eye medication! LOL!

Whew! I'm off the hook! I know I'm getting to be middle-aged, but I couldn't for the life of me remember what I could have possibly ordered.

Whew!

 

[KMHunter]

Quote: I really like the smoke color on mine. It lets "light" in but creates some "shade" at the same time.

 

[SadieSue]

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Poor girl...

 

[JennS]

I used the clear panel to cover the run as well. I choose the more expensive brand. I think it was $32 a panel. Got it at HD. I think it is 7ft long and if memory serves it was 28 inches wide. I drilled holes in it, and zip tied it to the top of the dog run. It's been there now about 9 years. Does get a little green after a few years so I clean it about every 2 years. The zip ties started failing a couple years ago, so I cut them all off and took it down, spread it out on the lawn and really scrubbed it with soap/windex etc. Came out looking like new. The only damage is when a tree fell on it- poked a little hole in it. I repaired it with a piece of packing tape. I'm not sure, but I think the were PVC or Polycarbonate. I do know they were not fiberglass. I choose them because they were 7 ft not 8 ft. The dog run is 6 ft, and I just wanted a little overhang; and I really did not want to try and cut them.

Russ

I can't find any that are 7 feet long, so I am guessing they don't make them anymore. The PVC has a 5 year warranty while the polycarbonate has a 10 year. So I guess I will get the polycarbonate. 7 feet would be better for me as well, so I may have to cut mine.

Jennifer

 

[UrbanEnthusiast]

Urban Enthusiast, that's just a caecal poop. 100% normal

Cool, I just looked that up, thanks. Glad to know it's normal. Disappointed it's not a yolk.

I've been looking at clear corrugated panels. Dunn Lumber carries a cheaper panel made from PVC, which costs $13.01 per 8' sheet. Is PVC a bad choice? I worry about chemicals from the roof in the runoff contaminating the soil around the pen and finding its way into the eggs. Am I being paranoid? Here is the manufacturer: http://www.palram.com/palruf

I called the ReStore, Second Use, and Earthwise, and nobody has any corrugated plastic roofing in stock.

Jennifer

I'm curious about these panels. The dimensions are 8' by what?

Normal poo.

Thank you.

 

[KMHunter]

Nerve test went well and wasn't horrible...at least it was pretty much a breeze compared to 3 natural childbirths at home, LOL!!! We ate dinner at Baja Fresh and are now waiting for The Hunger Games to start in the $3.50 theater

talk to y'all later!

Ok...seriously...I think I saw that natural home birth from you before

. I had one, no epidural, in the hospital. That was as far away from meds or a doctor I wanted to be!

Good on you! You are braver than me!

 

[KMHunter]

Just took me an hour to catch up.

You guys talk alot!

 

[JennS]

I'm curious about these panels. The dimensions are 8' by what?


Thank you.

I believe they were 8' by 26". Home Depot sells them as well, but they are cheaper on Dunn Lumber's website: http://webtrack.dunnlumber.com/Products.aspx?pg=1787&pl1=1545

Ah, here we go. The Do-it-yourself guide from the manufacturer: http://www.revbase.com/tt/sl.ashx?z=169034e2&dataid=244569&ft=1 This one has the dimensions and details on installing them, although part of it is upside down....

Jennifer

 

[justbugged]

I've been looking at clear corrugated panels. Dunn Lumber carries a cheaper panel made from PVC, which costs $13.01 per 8' sheet. Is PVC a bad choice? I worry about chemicals from the roof in the runoff contaminating the soil around the pen and finding its way into the eggs. Am I being paranoid? Here is the manufacturer: http://www.palram.com/palruf

I called the ReStore, Second Use, and Earthwise, and nobody has any corrugated plastic roofing in stock.

Jennifer

The big stores aka HD and LW, also carry the less expensive sheets of roofing. We bought the PVC? plastic roofing for our roof. So far it's held up better than we expected. It doesn't hold up to having large chunks of willow trunks being dropped through it though.

We had 2 willow trees in the run, and after the ice storm this past January we decided to remove both trees. I got all the major branches down without dropping any of them through the roof. But as soon as the boys got involved, then pieces of tree trunk started falling into the run. So we had to replace panels. What I learned is that there isn't away to reuse plastic panels. The panels tend to become brittle with time, and they have holes from being installed. So used panels will always tend to leak, if you try to reuse them.


I guess that as for the question of chemicals leaching out, and somehow contaminating the eggs, is something that I really haven't spent time worrying about. The amount of chemicals that might leach out is got to be much less than what a much larger people house might leach, as far as I would think. Also as long as the roof is sending the water out of the run, then your chickens shouldn't be coming into contact with the water run off. We use the run off to water the flowers on our patio. We also collect water that is running off of our shed/motorcycle carport. I do know that my dog drinks water from the collection cans, and I simply just don't spend to much time worrying about his safety in drinking the rain water. I feel better about the rain water, than the city water.