"A tractor from scraps I had
lying around"
This was built to quarantine a grown pair of turkeys, but I expect to use it next year as a grow-out pen or maybe for some meat birds. It's not meant for northern winters, but would be ok year-round in a very mild climate. Dimensions are 8'x8'...
As you might have guessed from my username,
my name is Pat, and I have chickens.
Here are the original three that got me hooked in the first place -- ISA Brown sex-link pullets from the local feed store. Got them just as 'utility animals' for eggs, but then I discovered what interesting and...
Pat's Big Ol' Mud Page:
How to Fix A Muddy Run
When chickens spend a bunch of time in one area, a common consequence is bare dirt, which in wet weather becomes mud. If you confine your chickens to a run, you are quite likely to have a mud problem eventually, unless you live in the desert or...
ISA Browns
...a.k.a. Hubbard ISA Browns, Hubbard Browns...
...are a line (or breed or whatever you want to call it) of sex-link layers, created by crossing certain Rhode Island Red roosters on certain Rhode Island White hens. I say "certain" because the strain is about 30 years old now and has...
Patandchickens'
Big Ol' PageVENTILATION
Or,
Go out there and cut more holes in your coop!
Now! Really truly!
Why is ventilation such a big deal?
Because chickens are amazing producers of moisture, ammonia, and heat, that's why. Small but mighty! (Mighty messy anyhow).
1) Ventilation removes...
Pic by SyzyQlou
The Cold Coop: What to do (and not do!) about it.
The 'heat budget' of a chicken coop
You can think of the temperature of your coop as being like a bank account. It starts with whatever amount of money it starts with, but on a day to day basis the balance will depend on how...
Here is the chickens' summer home. The 'run' part is 4' wide by 7' long, 30" high in the tall portion and 20" under the house. The house itself has a 4' x 2'6" footprint and gives the chickens up to 3'3" of height inside. The house is easily detachable from the pen, and the roof is detachable...
We have cold snowy winters too, though perhaps not *as* cold snowy as yours if you're in the U.P. I would never contemplate giving my chickens less than 10 sq ft apiece indoors (plus roofed, 3-1/2-sides windblocked run) and even that's tight, bigger is better (most of mine get 15+ sq ft apiece...
Ribs running down the slope is indeed the correct and only useful way to install them. (Otherwise the roof leaks and is not as strong).
If you are concerned about dripping back under the high edge -- although IME this is minimal unless you have a very high roof pitch or get large or icy snow...
For a small coop like that, in a cold winter area, the best way IMO to ventilate it is into a roofed-and-mostly-windblocked run. I realize you don't at the moment have such a thing, but perhaps it'd be worth building one, even a small one, which will also help increase usable outdoor space for...
To clarify, my "not excessively athletically constructed" comment was pretty much just reflecting that she is significantly straight behind, with a short femur and straight (open) hock angle.
Not that I would expect that to matter one bit for the o.p.'s purposes.
As for the rest, what I'd...
Basically, all that pic really reveals is that the animal in question is a bay female horse, not excessively athletically constructed but who cares.
What matters to you is not, generally, the things that can be discerned from photographs (although some general guesses about soundness, both...
It would help to edit this thread title to put your location in -- that way it may catch the eye of someone who's not otherwise highly interested in the subject, also it will clue readers in to your wanting geographic-specific info rather than general advice.
As far as general advice goes <g>...
If they were behavin' their little selves, as Redcatcher's stallion apparently does, I'd say leave them be.
But given that they appear to have difficulties with self-control and attention span, and are apparently a bit hard to handle, I'd for sure have them gelded. It WILL help them settle down...
Are amphiumas sold in the pet trade? Also, if it were an amphiuma, my experience with keeping them temporarily in tubs overnight before release would suggest that there would probably no longer be 2 zebra danios in the tank with it after all this time LOL
Just dyin' to know what a "frog/eel...
The valuable N-converting bacteria are all over all the surfaces in the tank, not just in the filter. So, take the old gravel too, if you can (in a separate bucket, NOT in the tank -- trying to move tanks with gravel in them, especially larger tanks, is a good recipe for leaking tanks and floor...
If you want something "alternative" for goats and sheep, I would not recommend those things, I would recommend reading up on the various herbal-based dewormers on the market. At least one or two of them have been tested in university research studies and found to be of some use.
You gotta be...
Oy. I hope neither you nor anyone living near you has a shallow well, nor a deep one with an imperfect casing
But, here you are now, can't change the past.
Quite honestly, IMO the best solution would probably be to hire someone with a bobcat, or tractor with blade on the front, or one of...
You would need to lay them as if laying a paver patio -- level the ground beneath them, then put in a good thickness of screenings (making sure that finished height, with bricks, will be slightly ABOVE surrounding ground level, especially important in a coop) and tamp the dampened screenings...
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Warning, those are pvc NOT polycarbonate. I will betcha if you look at the fine print they carry no hail warranty and are warranted for other things for only a few (like 5-ish) years.
You can use them of course. Just don't expect them to hold up well.
The polycarbonate really is a LOT...