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Pat, Your grabbing at straws, with your opinionated "facts" and everything I do is "flawed". You indicate that you hate advance technology and seem to be trying to debunk it by any means possible, via my "flawed" testing or my "lack of knowledge". Assuming I know "nothing" is a bad assumption...

Well, like normal Pat ,you don't seem to be reading or comprehending my posts.

What the styrofoam spot shows is an exact side by side comparison of with and without insulation in a real time situation, which is conclusive on how well it's working. An entire wall or coop wouldn't show a side by side and has no additional relevance on the insulation functionality. Thus...

Quote: They didn't have advance technologies like thermal imagers to show them if it's actually working. It's time to embrace technologies available today. 'This is the way it's always been done' doesn't mean it's correct or worthwhile. With a thermal imager I can find things like roof...

Ridgerunner, Good points and your on track, but there is too much negativity on this thread for me to bother with more thermal camera data. A fiberglass batt wall needs to be air tight to be effective, otherwise it's just an air filter. Materials loose their heat fairly quickly. I can see the...

I have to tell you I'm a bit surprised on the challenges to a high tech device with "theories and opinions". If insulation did anything in a coop, the thermal camera would see it. Thermal imaging is a growing industry to housing energy conservation and inspection, the wave of the future. The...

I put a 16x8x1.5 piece of styrofoam (R6) firmly against the wall of my un-insulated chicken coop. What you are looking at below are photos from a thermal imaging camera. You may say that R6 is not enough, however a high grade house window is close to R4. Insulation just doesn't do anything with...

There is really no market for such elaborate things. PLC's are expensive. There are cheaper methods already on the market; $15 for auto water and maybe $40 for an auto feeder, static feed hoppers are even cheaper.

I got tired of selling eggs myself. I fry them up 3 dozen at a time and feed them to the chickens over the course of several days. I also clean and crush the shells and give them to the chickens too in a free choice bowl.

I have an automated coop as well, with a few more bells and whistles, if you want to discuss it. I also have an automated brooder, you can find it here with a search. I even have a preliminary design to automatically remove eggs from the coop and put them into a refrigerator. Not the least bit...

Sounds like a serious heath issue. I would hire a professional or use the same enclosed traps they use. I hope your not one of those people that kill all the snakes they see. Snakes are excellent rodent control. Personally, I don't even kill the rattlers, I relocate them, but don't kill them...

I'm assuming that fully feathered means a chick can handle any temperature, correct? My lows are still in the 50's, highs 80-90's

The BO have feathered heads, the others are a down/feather mix, mostly feathers.

I have two chicks that like to play parrot. They usually try to eat my shirt, without notice, one pecked the side of my eye ball yesterday. The other chick did the same a few days ago. This last one is really painful. It seems instinct would tell them not to do such a thing.

I read over and over it takes six weeks for chicks to fully feather. I have some 3 week old heavy breeds that look fully feathered to me. Feathered backs, chests and heads. How much more do they need? Here is a five day old pic I have already in my picture gallery.

I was thinking more in the line of dry cat food because they can eat it 24 hours a day without rotting or crawling away. She is the runt and has turned into a vicious feather plucker.

I need to give one of my chicks a protein boost. I tried dried kitten food, crushed dry and wet. She won't eat it, my hens will eat the same kitten food I tried on the chick. What brand, type, dry or wet, flavor will chicks eat?

She started to eat the dry food and is drinking a fair amount now. She is even looking more perky already, seems she will be back to her bully self in no time. Look at the size difference, the two BO are the same age.

YES!! I got her to eat chick food. I put her back into the brooder and made some wet chick feed and gave it to everyone. If the others are eating it, it must be good, right She ate like a pig.