good morning everyone. yesterday my thermostat failed on me on day 15. i have a home made incubator i made out of an igloo cooler. we have used it before to hatch out eggs with zero problem.
last night i bought a new thermostat from lowe's and swapped them out. now my temps are running between...
i hatched out three EE chicks. they are now 12 weeks old. i made a homemade incubator and this was our first attempt and we were surprised how easy it was. anyway here is my question:
one of the three is very outgoing for lack of a better term. it is in an outside coop with the other two. this...
we are looking for two possibly 3 young layers. we currently have 5 pullets in the 20 week old range. we are in front royal, va in the northwestern part of the state. an hour from DC and hour from hagerstown and a little over an hour from harrisonburg, va
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i recently started my blog on this site and realized after i added some pictures that they are too big for the screen. in otherwords you have to scroll left and right to see the entire picture. and then this makes mt text the same way. i cannot stand reading something like this so i guess...
here is our finished coop. we built it over a weekend and a couple hours before work a couple weeks ago. our coop is 2 foot off the ground and is 4 1/2 foot long by 3 1/2 foot wide. our run is 18 feet long by 8 foot wide. the space under the coop is also open for our birds.
here is the inside...
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i am new here and just registered. my wife and i are looking to build and maintain a small coop for approx. 10 chickens,( which i know will probably grow if my past hobbies are any indicator!). we live in the mountains of virginia on the shenandoah river. i was raised in south carolina...