5 Effective Tips For Winterizing Your Chicken Coop

When you are building a chicken coop, taking care of weather conditions is extremely important. Especially for the winter months with sub zero temperatures. Failure to properly plan your chicken house can result in the birds falling sick. If you are keen to have healthy birds and eggs every day, then winterizing your chicken coop is very important.

Chickens normally fall sick when they have to face cold weather and moisture. So proper insulation and heating is required to keep the birds happy.

Here are some tips for winterizing your chicken coop:

1) When building a chicken house, plan for having well insulated walls. The insulation should be such that the birds cannot peck or eat them.

2) Have pine shavings on the floor and the shelves where the birds normally sleep. This will keep the birds warm and healthy.

3) You should have proper arrangements for heating the waterers so that water does not freeze. This is extremely important for having proper water supply for the birds. Alternately you may have to hand carry water buckets several times a day from your home to the coop. This can be a difficult task.

4) Anther technique that is used for winterizing the chicken coop is to have ceramic lamps for heating. These lamps just produce heat and no light. It is important to install the lamps at a height and location where no one can even touch them by mistake.

5) For certain chicken house designs you can have arrangements for having shower curtains on the outside. This will stop the cold winds and snow from making any kind of impact on the house. This technique for winterizing chicken coop may save you from having heating inside the house.

Do you know that a good chicken coop plan can cut your time and effort by half and also save you a lot of money on building material? To learn how to build a chicken coop that delivers maximum benefits without investing a huge amount of money and effort - Winterizing Chicken Coop

Homeschool Minute - Parts Of A House Fly

 

This is what we have worked on today. For the life of me , I cannot find where I printed the cards from. It is parts of a house fly. I also have parts of an ant cards. Cannot remember where I found the printable, but we love them. PLEASE _ if someone knows where the printable is from post it in comments! 

Little Man loves doing "parts of" activities. He loves to see how things are made and how they work. We also found a dvd at the library to watch about insects and it had some information in it about flies and ants. Gave him some blank paper and he drew flies that he was pretending were monsters and stuff. He did some math - addition - with some tiny flies that I had gotten at Dollar Tree during Halloween. There are 25 in a bag of these little flies. They really look life-like - Big Bubby came in from work this morning and actually tried to swat one. Anyway we have 50 of them and he used them to do some addition. A lot of fun. 

Homemade Crazy Fun Putty Dough

Pour 1/3 cup liquid starch on a old cookie sheet. Using A craft stick, stir in 1 cup craft glue slowly. After it starts to clump, let it stand for a few minutes. Put a small bit of starch on your fingers and knead the dough mixture. Now you can pull it, stretch it, roll it, and even use it to lift pictures from the funny pages. I let my son play with this at the kitchen table on the cookie sheet. Make sure not to get it on carpet or furniture. Little Man had fun with the Sunday comics. Store it in small, airtight container.

Our Food Storage Has Been A Lifesaver...

The last 3 months has been so hard for us. Hubby switching jobs and he's been sick, taking 2 weeks off for that. If we didn't have the food storage we would've starved! Our savings was used for bills and medical, so having the food helped a lot. Didn't have to worry about feeding all of us on top of worrying about everything else.

Having food storage is a good idea for any type of emergency. Not just disaster, weather, zombie outbreak, etc. It is a good idea to have food storage because anything could happen. You never know what could happen. Lay-offs, sickness, switching jobs, moving and more. There are many things that could happen to us that make having food storage a great idea.

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