Fire Barrier Silicone. You can find it at any hardware store

Roughly 2’x3’

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That’s the base

Yes. It is corrugated galvanized steel panel from Menards. That is how it is listen on their website.

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Yeah, the spring seems counterproductive after all that work getting tension on the wire.

No you shouldn’t. This can encourage bacteria to transfer through the shell into the egg

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I’m sure you could. It would probably take some type on stake in the middle to kind of tent the whole thing. I’m picturing like an old school circus tent

I am not sure how the Nichrome wire reacts with higher voltages. I do not know if it would just fry the wire. If you try it let us know the results!

It is about 2’x3’

You’ll have to check out Premier 1’s website

The first line is 36” here where I am so we tried to get at least that deep with each hole

Getting close to some eaters in the small pond!

I believe they were from the small trailers they sell. They get shipped without the wheels on them, stacked up several high. These were the spacers inbetween the stacked trailers

If I am understanding your question correctly, then yes, that is how we did ours

@@ChanyataFarm Fantastic. I have never actually done this and don't know anyone else who does. Basically, I want the mainline to be a 3/16" line and tee off some laterals. (All the other guys on KZbin have these skookum electro-fusion setups but I'm small time).

Our entire setup is 3/16 lines. We have 15-25 taps tied in to each lateral/mainline run. So it's 3/16 drop tubes t'd into 3/16 "mainlines". They way our sugar Bush is situated it was easier for us to run 5 separate home runs than to tie everything together into a traditional larger mainline.

So yes, the deep bedding is just pine shavings. In the run itself, I use bare wood mulch. Sometimes I’m able to get the chips from a tree service, sometimes I have to buy bags of mulch from the hardware store. This has worked pretty well for us I try to keep at least a few inches of chips in the run I only add chips to the run 1-2 times a year

Thank you! Our coop is 6x8 with 24x8 runs on either side

It’s the DCN680 18 gauge Brad nailer. And it is awesome.

Mainly just wood shavings. I might add some straw/hay every so often, but that is only if we happen to have an abundance that needs to get used up. The wood chips do fine on their own

Every so often we have aerial predator issues. We usually just put them on lock down for a few days after and that works. As for the solar charger…. I loved the solar charger. Only a handful of times I had to charge it, usually cloudy, snowy weeks over the winter. The entire energizer stopped working about 2 months after it was outside of the warranty. I would have suggested it before then, but o was very unhappy with the lifespan of the unit.

You can buy something similar. When I was a student in high school, in sculpture class we would use foam board and had a handheld version to easily cut the foam.

Yes