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[J Kolenovsky <garden@hal-pc.org>]

Thanks, John. I was sort of thinking that way but was looking for
outside feedback to confirm that.

ps - regarding the MA, we toured Boston, Cape Cod, Matha's Vineyard, and
Newport, R.I., in June, 1998. Even had lunch at Woods' Hole. Quaint up
that way.
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John Schinnerer wrote:
> 
> Aloha,
> 
> --- J Kolenovsky <garden@hal-pc.org> wrote:
> > I asked these people twice what they are talking about . They never
> > responded. Can anyone share what they are referring to?
> 
> I didn't write it, but it makes sense to me..."chook" is Aussie (oops,
> 'Australian') for "chicken."  Sounds like an archetypal PC
> greenhouse/chicken coop combo.
> 
> > Do the chickens sleep in every other drum and the alternate drums
> > store the water?
> 
> That's what it sounds like to me.  It'd be in Austrialia, unless
> they're describing a project elsewhere in Aussie lingo.
> 
> > mentioned a dividing wall and an internal wall.
> > Please explain. I am not familiar with this type of technology.
> 
> I think they're referring to the same wall, the one made of the
> containers, that divides the greenhouse part from the chicken coop part
> of the total structure. It needs sun on it to help warm the water; the
> greenhouse side would be sun-facing so that'd be the side the sun would
> hit from.
> 
> The chicken nests face into the coop side; the 90mm (~3.5" for those
> still clinging to feet and inches ;-) flex pipe off the top of the
> containers turned into nests channels the rising warm air from the
> nesting chickens over to the greenhouse side.
> 
> Pretty clever indeed!
> 
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J Kolenovsky, A+, Network +, MCP
Texas Wildscape # 1564, NWF Backyard Habitat # 28771
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