Now that I think about. Mine do as in your illustration, got to watch your head.. roofing never came off, chickens don't fly that high in the roost hopefully.. You don't want to poke them, they leak.
Predator proofing can include fencing buried at minimum one foot in the ground to discourage diggers. Dependent on your vermin.. or lay fencing horizontal around the run and coop out eighteen inches or further.. The bigger the bugger, the further out.. and netting or wire cover of course for...
I use two and one half inches on two by fours set on end, the more the merrier.. Do not remember the intervals.. but 12" on center you can't go wrong.. Less than two feet would be my suggestion.. Must be one heck of a wind, I use decking screws.. Rust resistant.. Use of drywall screws and you...
Bees are very expensive these days.. something like $150.. Just to have them not make it through Winter and or Spring dysentery.. Now that 'THEY' took away your access to Tetracycline.. Started when the Tracheal mite showed up in about 1985.. I loved my bees. It was a stinging experience.. Once...
House plants!! Already do that and really no problems.. In the summer they go on the deck to collect bugs.. Food growing is a whole other issue.. I kill them with kindness.. Too much fertilizer and too much water.. but have seen the light 5000K.. Ignore the house plants and they thrive.. I am...
Have a friend who worked in Hongkong for extended periods.. Stories I heard, whole chick in eggs.. likely black eggs too.. he had to eat what ever was set in front of him.. or host would loose face.. got to give him credit, but it paid well. Came with furniture fringe benefit too.. Soylent Green...
Fancy.. built mine out of materials on hand.. Dirt floor.. Corrugated steel, pool liner roof cover and some plywood for door.. Plenty ventilation.. cracks everywhere.. There is one window covered in hardware cloth in the door and old sash, maybe four foot wide door, Which I leave open in the...
Curious this from 2012 and just kicking in, in real time.. 'THEY' are talking of coming for your BYC.. Your Fido too Miss Kitty.. If you go to sleep, you will never Wake Up! Michigander.
If I switch back to rural, which is an option. I'm allowed 500 per acre.. So add 50.. Heck NO! 'THEY' mess with me again and I've threatened 500 sheep.. Their rules.. Would be a crowd. Can you knit?
Do it regular.. Grandkids and chick day.. They start jumping out of the box, I get em'.. Sometimes they make it sometimes they don't.. but have a flock as opposed to half dozen and they can be merciless.. but most times they eventually blend.
"I read cotton made up from cellulose".. News to me, guess I'll have to stop believing false packaging labels.. Cellulose is wood, basically newspaper.. It is in 'everything' you eat.. Worked in the business, up to 15% by volume.. and you're fine. A cotton ball may worry me some, but a tip of a...