Recent content by mendozer

i picked up four from a local lady who hatches from her turkeys. 2 spanish black and 2 blue slate. so far they're 5 days old. longer than the others ever made it. they're on gamebird starter and a water trough with grit on the bottom. looking good. i ended up separating them from my chicks...

it ended up dying. It was gasping in my hands and i was trying to use a syringe to give it more water and yolk. just no will to thrive, any of them. so annoying. a local breeder has some for me next week. No more mailed turkeys! that's 0/4

i should add i contacted some local breeders and they said the feed store ones are difficult bc they are mailed in and usually arrive 2-3 days without food/water. They suggested using a syringe to force egg yolk in their mouths but i can't do it one handed. darn thing doesn't want to open its...

it's a large brooder with heat in the corner. the older chicks stay on the other side. I have never had various ages before. I'm only doing this because I added 6 varieties of chicks and they were available and different times from the store so i kept getting 1 or 2 at a time, weeks apart...

oh i asked for gamebird and she directed me to that.

there is grit in the brooder, but none of them really go for it

It has 30%, the feed store told me to use that. Otherwise i have broiler feed too. the brooder has a mix of 1 day, 1 week, 2 week, 4 week chicks (one of each because various breeds). They didn't have gamebird starter. water is warm, under the lamp also food shouldn't be the thing killing them...

I got two poults thursday morning from the feed store. Tossed them in the brooder with my chicks (various ages 1 day to 4 weeks). Thursday evening, one's dead. Friday morning, the other's dead. Feed store says they'll let me bring them back. Got two more friday evening. Now saturday evening...

ok re-design. Used the Vevor greenhouse kit which served as the shell. Fastened cedar decking to make a bottom frame, hardware cloth all over, suscovish style but not an A frame with conduit. Much more manageable. Still able to keep food and water totes in there. In the winter I'll wrap another...

I got the coop in the back now, took me over an hour to get it from the driveway to the backyard because the unlevel ground caused the mild 4" lift to get stuck at times. The wooden hoop is still too heavy. I'm just gonna do an open tractor design like Suscovich but I'm not bending conduit so i...

I swear I'm gonna lose my mind. first the conduit failed sop i rebuilt it out of cedar. It is solid. Its 7x10 now, so slightly smaller. I cannot for the life of me figure out a retractable wheel option. I've done: -cantilever wheel design - fail -superstrut channels to add vertical rigidity to...

i mounted trailer jacks to the side with a wooden bracket i had to attach to the conduit, got a trailer dolly for the front and moved it about 4 feet until the conduit fitting in the corner came off. re-attached it and it happend again. also the conduit flexes way too much. i just think it's too...

i finished it but it's too damned heavy! The waterer must be close to 100 lb so maybe that's putting it over the limit. Otherwise the conduit and cattle panels should only be 175 lb or so.

worked at it all day again. I used the plastic corrugated board (like yard sign material) for the water proofing of the coop roof under the tarp. lightweight and 100% waterproof. welded up a latch mechanism with some extra conduit, bolts, and a nut. pretty clever if i may say so. This is why I...

finally a weekend without rain. Got the wood backing and floor in. I chose to suspend the flooring with the same conduit and fittings. Angling up from the base, it seems very sturdy. The middle hole will be for them to walk down a ramp to the grass. Getting the hoop lined up with the domed wood...