Chicken Blog. Last June, we got the Starplate frame and walls up, then started thinking about the roof. Although no one else had done it that way, we liked the idea of using aluminum flashing, both for ease of cutting and for safety of rainwater collection. Our first stab at it, though, involved too much corner cutting. Furring strips seemed like they might be sufficient to anchor the flashing, but the roof just felt too flimsy using this method. So we backed up, (waited nine months,) and tried again. Round two was much more successful.
We planned our starplate roof to have an overhang, so back when we started, we used ten-foot-long 2X4s for the rafters instead of the eight-foot-long 2X4s we used for most of the frame. This part of the project went extremely smoothly, although Mark didn't have fun being up on the roof. The photo above shows how we slipped the last piece of flashing up under the edge of the other piece and anchored it down. Here we are putting the last piece of flashing on the roof. CHICKEN FEED: Main Menu. Grass-Fed Chickens? Chickens will consume 30% of their calories from grass, if allowed to truly "free range. " Since grass is very low in calories, that's a WHOLE LOT of grass! Another thing chickens need is animal protein. Chickens are omnivores, just like the humans they've kept company with for all these millennia. The new "all vegetarian" chicken is a convenience to the mass-producer, who thus doesn't have to worry about the potential of latent animal diseases in animal sources of poultry feed; and animal protein is very much more expensive for the farmer.
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