What is your latest prepping project?

[KlopKlop]

Quail sounds interesting..I want to expand a little next year depending on how my ducks do this winter. Here are temps swing from about 100 down to -40.
Ducks should be hardy enough without much heat. I've been preparing the"duck barn" for the cold. Also I plan to have timed lighting so they get plenty off light through out short days.I plan to use heat lamps and just bank the walls with snow. Here we get pounded with snow. The best insulation ever. As far as guns and ammo I just refrane from saying much but I'm good.

Yeah, you would want to give area all your secrets suffice to say I also 'am good' lol

 

[coleco]

Duck eggs can become many and snow is slick. From my experience I build in coop storage "boxes" to store eggs so that they don't freeze (yuck) and for the ability to have them all in one place when i am ready to collect them. Then if i see an egg I can move it. For my purposes I need the eggs to be turned and kept at 55 degrees thus the quotation marks around "boxes". I use mini fridges and cut off the can holding parts on the door and wire in a trimmed down egg turner.


With a temp controller I just run it to refrigerate in the summer down to 55 degrees, and then add a heat source, in my case a 100 watt cartridge heater , to have it heat to 55 in the winter. That is kind of purpose built for how im raising chickens remotely tho. Just some ideas to think about.

 

[LittleLakePhil]

Nice...I've been thinking about adding a few chickens and pheasants next year. You ever raise pheasants?

 

[coleco]

I was going to get some golden phaesants over the weekend but im under the weather and my friend with the birds has surgery this week. Couldnt risk getting her sick. I want to though.

 

[KlopKlop]

Nice...I've been thinking about adding a few chickens and pheasants next year. You ever raise pheasants?

I raised ring necks a long time back and it went ok. I only had 8. I've heard horror stories of them going cannibal when they reach sexual maturity if they are too close together. We raised them and released them so I didn't have that issue.

 

[BBQJOE]

I really would like to learn cord wood building...seems like a really good way to put up a solid out building.

Hold tight. I'll get you some pics of what the wife and I built.


Here is what we call the yurt. It is mostly my shop, with a bit used for storage. If there's a screw, bolt, nut or anything else needed, I probably have it in there.




Here's a close up of what the outside wall looks like.



This is an inside view of the roof. My friend from S.A. designed it. The center pole actually went to the floor. We built the roof to it, then he cut it away.

 

[KlopKlop]

What is the mortar material made of?

 

[BBQJOE]

What is the mortar material made of?

We used sand, and a portland mix called plastic cement. It's more formable than regular portland.

 

[LittleLakePhil]

Nice BBQ Joe...I've got friends that have built them...one made a real nice sauna....the other made one into a huge maple syrup sugar house. Again real nice!!! ;I thought I could make a two room cord building with a wood stove in between and have one side be a sauna the other Smoke house..

 

[BBQJOE]

Nice BBQ Joe...I've got friends that have built them...one made a real nice sauna....the other made one into a huge maple syrup sugar house. Again real nice!!! ;I thought I could make a two room cord building with a wood stove in between and have one side be a sauna the other Smoke house..

The only problem with cord wood, it that it eventually shrinks, leaving gaps all around each log. Since this is only a shop, I don't care so much, but it it were a house, you'd probably have a non stop caulking project.