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What heater base works with a plastic waterer? I bought a beater base from Stromerg, but have no metal font. Reviews on them are terrible...handles breaking when new, rust inside by 1 year... has anyone tried using one of these bases with a plastic waterer?

Check out SweeterHeater online. Safer than heat bulb, won't burn bird or start a fire. Plug it into a Thermocube so it doesn't turn on until under 40 degrees F., & turns off above 40.

AWFUL!!! kept coming apart, water soaking me!

The balls (or other floating things) depend on wind to keep them moving so ice doesn't solidify. Doesn't work in severe temp.

VETRYCIN, not Verizon! (Spell checker)

Orally, not "oral injection." Oral injection would mean a needle & syringe, with the medication injected into the tissues of the mouth. (Just clarifying for future readers.)

Skip neomycin...can kill birds. Use bacitracin ointment. Verizon is very good. Vetwrap doesn't require tape; sticks to itself. Human-marketed name is Coban.

For future reference--chlorhexidine is hibiclens. Don't use it. Use 1/2 strength hydrogen peroxide or iodine.

This is a respiratory disease. I've never had any luck treating it...they go on & on, getting slowly worse. I won't put another one through it again, if initial treatment doesn't work.

Surgical R.N. here: hibiclens is NOT to be used on any open wound. INTACT skin only. You can use hydrogen peroxide diluted 50% with water. (I would use iodine on on intact chicken skin, not hibiclens...hibiclens transcutaneous absorbtion can be toxic, & birds are fragile.) I'm surprised...

Later you can use the Coloplast for things like shading tender plants, shading the small fishpond on hot days...lots of uses. Just remember to save appropriately sized pieces for next winter...the climate is changing.

I'm in Ohio, by Lake Erie. Lots of blowing lake-effect snow. I use coroplast pieces, available cut to my specifications from a local plastics place. It's reasonable in cost, very lightweight, but rigid, and easy to store. I get the translucent, which lets a good amount of brightness through...

Nah--most of us let ours out onto our lawns...he'd crow.

If your run area gets wet, I would recommend NOT using sand--gets really gross. INSIDE, where it stays dry & is easily sifted, sand is wonderful; I won't use anything else. Note: I'm in northern Ohio and it gets bitter cold, so with the sand floors for keeping cleaning easy (no mites since I...

My girls will not sleep anywhere near windows; fear of predators. They want to roost in a safe dark area. I had to cover my coop windows to get them to roost on the roost bars.

If you are planning large raised beds, remember that you will have to hand dig all the grass runner roots out, constanty, every year. My 3x20 raised bed boards are giving out (linseed oil coated untreated, around 2" thick, after about 6? years. Expensive. I have perennials in the beds--roses...

Rabbits die VERY easily from overheating. You might me home most of the time, but it doesn't take much to throw off a schedule of checking on them; car trouble, illness, emergency trip away from home, sprained ankle....I would be very concerned about keeping rabbits where you are. Death by...

He's still a baby; has bits of down, still, mainly on head & neck. If you would take him, I can meet you--I really don't want to have to kill him. He's currently in a large dog crate in my basement, well cared for. It's very cold for a young bird, so if you'd like I can keep him until he's a...