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https://www.backyardchickens.com/t/41108/show-us-your-nest-boxes-ingenous-design-post-it-here

I did that and it worked great. I built a frame with a ledger board slightly higher in front than rear one and dropped the buckets In then mounted a front board to keep shavings In. Mine had a walk board in front with ramp but all you need is a roost bar in front so they can hop up to and get in...

Yep... Probably the number one mistake I see made with sand. Many people use playground sand or poolfilter sand aand since this sand is specifically screened to be small and uniform sized it packs down and will soon be like concrete. If you use sand you need a builders sand sometimes also called...

Looks great to me, but I would definitely save some space and go with 4 nest boxes. The poop board mentioned is usually my number one recomendation and I now consider it the most important aspect as far as optional additions. Any place you can fit vents with the exception of cross drafting the...

Thank you Alicek and chicwolf, I appreciate that.

Thanks Yea..its been a big change with just me and my GSD now, but we'll get through it ok I guess. The sooner I get back to chickens the better probably :) P.S. Because of the predator risk and barn location 500 feet away from the house I will probably end up going with rose comb brown...

Hello all. I have just recently moved to Elizabethtown after a fairly rough divorce. I left the house and of course my coop to the ex in Eastern, Tn. I'll be working on modifying an area of an old barn here on the property this winter so I can get back to the joy of chickens again. I'm fairly...

NP. LOL your right about it being off topic though. Im afraid I contributed to that as well.

Your kind of in the wrong area for that post..... but the answer to your questions is 99-102 If your bator can hold a one degree variance, you are doing well. I try to get mine to run 99.5-100.5 and I have very good hatch rates.

aoxa thanks for the info; I traveled so much back then I must have mixed up my area's. That was about 20 years ago but I've talked to people from most of the places I've visited since then and they say it is about the same (except a friend said i was a little high with 50% for England...he...

Here is an even more interesting fact.....we are the only modern country in the world that refrigerates eggs on a normal basis. Even in England only about half the eggs sold are refrigerated and thats mostly around only the bigger cities like London. In the U.K., Ireland, Scotland, Nova Scotia...

this is what got me started building my own btw..still good info

they look like new Hampshire's with a lot of white leakage from a cross in their blood lines. The white one looks pretty close to a Rhodie island white. If you got them all from the same person,I would say they are RIR / RIW mixes.

Jwatts; I suggested earlier that you stick with a standard wafer thermostat because I see this is the first time for you building an incubator. I did not mean to take away from the posts about water heater thermos though when I mentioned to stay away from bi-metal. The fact is that water...

Very interesting!!! Thanks for the info, I may have to try it in one of several old cooler bators I have.