BooHoo2

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I’ve always taken it as you’re telling someone they spend too much time in their mom’s basement and need to go outside and feel the fresh air/grass.

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Yeah, I guess you could see it that way too - get outside and stop spending so much time online.

The summer heat is way worse for chickens than the cold. We don’t usually put a heat lamp in our coop unless it gets in the 20’s or below.

I would recommend you put your chickens in a mobile coop that you can pull around your yard. Obviously you need some space to do this, but it’s nice to give the chickens fresh grass every few days (versus being in one spot all the time which will quickly get very dirty and muddy). Ours is fully enclosed so it has kept predators out and we have all kinds of critters wandering and flying around our yard. I downloaded plans for it off of Etsy for $10. Search Etsy for mobile chicken coop and it’s the 8x10 one being sold by ReformedAcresShop. Plans were pretty easy to follow. Took a couple of weekends to complete. We put wheels on the back and a pull kit on the front to move it with. Both of those were from Chick Lifts (www.chicklifts.com). My only complaint about the coop is that water gets into the roost buckets when it rains hard. We just put a tarp over the back end of the coop with clamps and remove it once the rain is done. That keeps most of the rain out.

Chickens are fun to have but a fair amount of work. We check them daily and change their water, give them food as needed and move the coop every 2-3 days. Their eggs are much better than store bought though. I would recommend you get Rhode Island Red chickens to start with. They are very low maintenance and lay eggs almost year round. They usually lay one egg a day except in the winter. I would put a max of 6 chickens in the coop that we have. There are also some varieties of chicken that are more cold hardy than others so you could look into getting some of those if you’re worried about how they will deal with the winter weather. There is a ton of info online about raising chickens if you have more questions. Good luck!

I would suggest you look into Beavers Bend State Park in Broken Bow, OK. They have a lake and a river to explore. Lots of hiking trails also if you want to try those. There are tons of cabin rentals in the area to stay in so you could potentially rent a large one and all stay in it together. The town is small and there’s not a lot to do there, but the state park was nice and way better than I expected.

Air Doctor is a good brand and will remove odors.

We had the same problem with our son when he was little. He couldn’t go to preschool until he was trained and nothing we did worked. We went to a gastro and a nutritionist. We tried giving him a probiotic, upping the amount of fiber in his diet, giving him pear/prune juice, etc. and he almost ended up in the hospital with a fecal impaction. We started giving him Miralax every day and that works for him. Yes, it’s less than ideal but our other options didn’t work and it keeps him out of the hospital. Miralax is not absorbed by the body and the gastro told us it could be used indefinitely. So, use Miralax if you have to in order to get the constipation under control and I think he will potty train just fine.

Air Doctor. It works well and they have multiple size options.

Get lots of morning sunlight - preferably right at or just after sunrise - every day and don’t wear sunglasses so the light can get in your eyes. This helps reset your circadian rhythm. Also, take magnesium glycinate and inositol at night.

“Bird flu”

Never tried them, but if you do, connect them directly into the ground outside through a crack in a window or door. If you plug them into the electric outlet ground, they could pick up the dirty electricity running through your wires which is not good.

I tried letting the infection go once and it never would resolve so I had to take antibiotics anyway. I continued to have 2-3 sinus infections per year until I started taking Singulair. Now I only have one every couple of years or so.