Articles by RonP

Last winter was unusually cold for my area, with days turning to weeks of temperatures way below freezing. My schedule allowed me to gather my eggs twice a day, 8am and 8pm. For weeks I had cracked frozen eggs. Literally dozens of eggs were deemed unfit for human consumption, and fed back the...

Had to leave for a few days, needed a quick and easy way for the flock to have extra water.

There are many proposed solutions for keeping water liquid for a backyard flock during subfreezing temperatures. Personally, I like to keep it simple and with little maintenance. Unless multiple trips to replace the frozen water seems effortless to you, I have found no methods for maintaining...

If you're like most and keep your coop nice and dry, then you are no stranger to DUST... You can call it whatever pleases you (chicken dander), but I'm sure you realize what's in the air, I'll just refer to it as "dust". Now just how do you rid the coop of dust, easily, quickly, and...

So on my never ending quest to add more ventilation for those hot summer days, I decided to rehinge, 2 2x2 windows on the sunny side of my coop. These 2 windows were originally installed to swing open left and right. As installed, they offered little to no protection against a driving rain so...

Thought Process: The laws of thermodynamics, the heat source in the center of the bottom of the bottle will cause the warmer water to rise, creating a continuous "current", as warm water is displaced with cold, thus circulating the water without the need for mechanical assistance. No need to...