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I have used staples to put up winter plastic. I also have found staples in the gizzard when cleaning cockerels. Hardware disease is problems from the chickens eating metal.

Does it have to hold weight or just keep it from shifting? They make clips for the siding https://www.kinsmangarden.com/product/Vinyl-Siding-Hooks

Like a game bird pen https://www.pheasant.com/about-us/blog/flight-pens/tag#:~:text=Posts%20should%20be%2010'%20high,from%20digging%20their%20way%20in. Also a friend had bird netting over his turkey pens. A bobcat went through it like butter. Killed all in one pen. Left the carcasses and came...

Is good to keep chickens in, but any predators can get in But it looks great and a lot of work.

I put straw around the potato plants. After Halloween I post on my local FB page for pumpkin and bales. Sometimes people want to drop off others want me to pickup.

By me the squirrels. But also mice. Depends on size

Yes I was wondering about that too. I'm thinking packed in clay. Or bog like conditions

https://www.newsweek.com/archaeologists-discover-rare-well-preserved-bronze-age-wooden-structure-1898522

I hate when they say no rain or frost at 9pm and by morning they are wrong. Can't predict the future 12 hours in advance, even with all the fancy radar, computers and half a dz different models.

I forgot I have been using these small nipple waterers. I haven't had chicks in the house since 2020...

This is what I use when I don't have a broody

I have mine on an upside down bowl or a brick. Something to raise it up above the bedding a couple inches

Example of cost of pallets in my area 😞

So now I am wondering how they made these wells for real use. I know a lot were stone but there were wood ones also....which seem to be square.

Very nice detailed blog post

Heavy so it's not going to shift lol. Some can be cut, at least my cousin cut hers for horse stall

Might make a full clean out bumpy hitting with the shovel

Is this under roosts or waterer?

Aluminum cans can be sold By me they want smashed usually 24 cents a lb. 32 cans per lb. Not cost effective if you have to go far unless you're going that way. So I give mine to my cousin who has several outbuildings. Her husband takes them in on the flatbed car hauler when the price is up. Has...

I had several Wren houses hanging around. They keep getting the hole chewed larger. I assumed chipmunk or such, until I went to open one up late winter . It had just been chewed. When I started to open a Downey or hairy woodpecker few in my face so fast I couldn't tell which it was. :eek: