Sheldon Caulfield

Hey all! I'm in a mad rush to install my new woodstove before the winter.

This is going in my unfinished basement, and you'll see in the attached photo that there are some soft mini split/heat pump tubes and cords strung across the top of the wall directly above the wood stove.

I'm having someone in for the final inspection in a weeks time so that I can safely burn, but it's $350 for the inspection so I really don't want to fial and have to book another one.

Does anyone think those tubes would be a problem? Additionally, are there any other glaring problems you guys can see around the stove that I'm blind to? (Except for the fact that the stove isn't hooked up to the chimney of course, lol)

Flora Eerschay wrote:My quails were louder in the beginning when the aviary was new to them and they didn't feel safe. Much calmer now. I would cover the walls with something especially at the bottom, so that animals can't spook them that much. Also, looks like rats can get in there easily.

This was an older photo, we have since turned it into Fort Knox because you're right, rats got in there very easily lol. The size is the same but now there's no way in (we even dug out the dirt and buried hardware cloth).

We usually put clear tarps around the run in the winter but I suspect this year I may need to use not-so-clear ones to block their line of sight a bit.

Hey all!

We started our chicken journey fairly small. 3 silkie hens.

We got silkies because we live in a fairly urban area and I have neighbours close by, and we read that silkies were on the quieter side. That was a lie.

They live in a 6x9 covered run, with a 3.5x2 insulated coop on stilts (so they have space on the ground underneath). They have an automatic door so they are out in the run first thing every morning. In the summer they spend most days outside in our fenced yard.

The problem is, if we aren't home or awake to let them out from the run and into the yard, they scream bloody murder. All three of them will sit there and spend 5-10 mins screaming in unison. Then they'll tire out and start over again 20 mins later.

It stops when I let them out of the run to free range so I assume I've somehow created this monster by spoiling them with that "luxury".

Nevertheless, I suspect my neighbours are starting to hate me. And winter is coming so they will only have coop/run access now, with no more yard access for 6 months.

I'm afraid it'll be 6 months of screaming if I don't figure something out.

Has anyone had luck nipping this in the bud? What can I do to reduce to screaming behaviour?