My slightly (ehem) opinionated view is if you have livestock you take good care of them, including housing. It will pay dividends. That's the way I raised hogs and it paid off in better gain. Use anything you can get your hands on to stop the draft. Stapling cardboard to the inside of a drafty wall works good and it's cheap. South facing windows help keep them warm during the day. If they are allowed to go outside keep the door real small, just big enough for them to get through.
Our 15 layers are in a tight insulated coop with a heat lamp shining on the roosts. We've had plenty of nights with temps in the minus figures this month and the coldest it's been in there is 25 degrees in the middle of the building three feet off the floor until today when it dropped to 15 degrees. We have a heater under the water so they have plenty of water at all times. Our egg production since September has been 6.8 eggs per chicken per week or 98 percent and they're still laying just as well now as they were in warmer weather. They all look healthy. Once in awhile a hen will be sitting on the roosts with it's feathers fluffed but usually they don't act cold. Will insulating that shed and making it tight pay off in the end? No, but the birds are being pampered so I feel good about it. Jim
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Today's Featured Article - Hydraulics - Cylinder Anatomy - by Curtis von Fange. Let’s make one more addition to our series on hydraulics. I’ve noticed a few questions in the comment section that could pertain to hydraulic cylinders so I thought we could take a short look at this real workhorse of the circuit. Cylinders are the reason for the hydraulic circuit. They take the fluid power delivered from the pump and magically change it into mechanical power. There are many types of cylinders that one might run across on a farm scenario. Each one could take a chapter in
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