Jeff Forsha

Jay Angler wrote:

Jeff Forsha wrote:This has ended up being the best cooling solution.

Do you collapse the sun shades any time there's rain, or do they stretch down until they rest on the top of the water?

What you see is what you get. It's raining right now. We've had about two and a half inches since yesterday. There's the weather station over the pool below.

There's turnbuckles keeping them tensioned at all four corners of each shade cloth and there's metal structure around the top perimeter as well as across the middle, which carries the waterfall feature across the pool.

The vertical shade/privacy cloth is stretched around all but the side with the ladder and has wire stretched around the top with a turnbuckle as well with UV stabilized zip ties every 12" to keep it from sagging. The privacy shade keeps a lot of sun off of the pool to give it longevity. The sun in CenTex is brutal on everything, otherwise.

This has ended up being the best cooling solution. I keep it full with rain I captured in a 3k gallon tank on 1200sf pole barn roof and the pump runs on solar. I don't know how people around here live without a pool!

I haven't ever considered allowing a snake to stay. I'll usually relocate them. That said, a rat snake wrapped itself around a post on the front porch last week at a high rate of speed after I caught it in the aviary with a cockatiel inside it. The aviary was snake proof until the chickens dug a dust bathing hole on one side of the aviary wall, while the small group of quail that maintain the aviary, dug holes for laying eggs against the wall from the other side, leaving a small hole, just large enough for a snake to get through to make a meal of my cockatiels. Snakes don't bother me around the chickens, as I won't miss an egg it two and they'll never be able to eat the chickens, but I draw the line at my tiels.

This one is simple. Cedar. Red specifically?

After replacing my inconsistent incubator, I've successfully gotten my first two chicks out of my 15# CC hen and an EE roo.