EDUCATIONAL INCUBATION & HATCHING CHAT THREAD, w/ Sally Sunshine Shipped Eggs

this thing looks down right dangerous
How 'bout something like this?
Designed & built by an old friend for horses; don't know if it would for goats.
He'd applied for a patent; don't know if it ever got to market; lost touch with him a long time ago.


Admittedly not the best pictures, but I'm no Bubbles.
The net is bungee cording; accommodates a flake at a time.
Since I no longer have need for it, it's yours if you can put it to use.
 
Best of Luck. Ya'll do an exhaust test up there or just overall safety inspection?
We used to have special exhaust testing stations where you'd have to sit in line for hours. It was a scam and the pushback got the legislature to eliminate it. If your vehicle failed, you had to spend X amount of dollars on emission related repairs depending on the age of the vehicle. If it still failed, as long as you spent the correct amount of money, they'd pass you. The older the vehicle, the less you were required to spend.
There is still exhaust testing with the safety inspection but that is primarily based on the check engine light codes.
We only need a safety inspection every 2 years based on the year of vehicle. Odd years in odd years and vice versa.
You always have to get one when transferring title. Luckily, this truck is a '95 so this being an odd year I won't need another till 2019. If the truck were an even year, I'd have to get another next year.

Haven't lost anymore birds but the fox is back. 3 days in a row and both sunrise and sunset. Not sure when I will get a chance for another stake out but I don't plan to miss for round 2. If i get him in the crossharis he's a gonner. Looks like he's a bit too comfortable for my liking.



I haven't seen any fox on my game cams but I don't set them up very often and I'm sure I would see them and coyotes eventually if I did it every night. It's always a freeway of raccoons showing up on the cameras when I do.

On 2 occasions, I saw a fox grab a chicken right in front of me in the middle of the afternoon. I yelled and the fox let it go. It came around the side of the compost bin and had the orpington before the hen knew anything was afoot.

I simply must get to work on automatic doors.


thanks but at a 38D I don't think so
Perhaps get a sports bra and sew pockets into a figure 8 shape around all the valleys.
old.gif


Quote:
...

Ugh - stay safe you guys!!!!
hugs.gif


Form personal experience, I recommend you get a good fanny pack, and wear it on your front. I also strongly recommend you don't just hang stuff off of the belt - the bang-bang-bang against your legs as you walk will drive you insane, and it could also snag. You should be able to find (or make) sheaths and/or additional pouches that you can thread onto the fanny pack belt. It keeps everything important in reach. If I'm by myself, I will almost always sleep with the fanny pack on as well. I've never succeeded in finding a good way to carry water on a belt of sufficient volume, so I put it in the side pockets of the pack and got good at reaching around while the pack was still on (you can leave the wast strap buckled, and take your arm out of one shoulder strap and kind of rotate the pack toward the front and reach stuff in the side pockets). I would always put water on both sides of the pack and alternate the one I drank from to keep the pack balanced. (When I hike, I carry a LOT of water, because of where I am.)


- Ant Farm
I think there have been 5 drownings in the state. A lot more rescues though.
Arkansas, Oklahoma and Illinois are just about as rough.

They ask that here too, the vet/inspector told me it is for rodent and pest control...Not that it makes a huge difference when you put the feed out for the birds it is a huge magnet for rodents.


OK thanks.



Our tester discouraged me from additional testing too. Because of the rarity of the breed. If they test positive for AI, they'll do a more conclusive test. If that comes back positive, they'll destroy all birds on the property. That would be devastating since I wouldn't be able to replace them.

I was kind of discouraged to test for AI by the state Vet for the same reason, but so many states require it. Of course, I could do like 90% of the people on Ebay and elsewhere do and just send birds and egg illegally knowing the enforcement and chances of getting caught are next to nil..

I just decided I wouldn't ship to those states.

Interesting, here a person becomes a tester and can do their own or hire themselves out to do others birds. I have never charged anyone for doing their chickens, but you can charge whatever you want.

One person tests all the small flocks in the state here. It is free so no real incentive for others to try to test.
There are teams that do all the commercial breeder farms.
Big broiler and egg operations don't need the P/T test because those birds aren't going anywhere. The breeder stock is tested every year.


http://ufwildlife.ifas.ufl.edu/venomous_snake_faqs.shtml

The chances of dying from a venomous snakebite in the United States is nearly zero, because we have available, high-quality medical care in the U.S. Fewer than one in 37,500 people are bitten by venomous snakes in the U.S. each year (7-8,000 bites per year), and only one in 50 million people will die from snakebite (5-6 fatalities per year).




I bet the families of those 5 a year would disagree with you...

as would those people if still alive..

Heck, we have people predicting far worse and more dire outcomes on less proof than 5 people a year dying.
433,000 people die a year from sitting on the couch too long.
https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC3404815/

I'll take my chances with the venomous snakes.

I encountered, cottonmouths, copperheads and rattlesnakes every year from the time I was very young. Don't mess with them and they won't mess with you. I ran into Terciopelos (fer-de-lance) in CR and I'm still here. There's no way to count the number of snakes I've come across and never been bitten. I usually see about 10 or 20 a year at my house. Sometimes 2 or 3 a day. Canoeing in the Ozarks, you see snakes all day going down the river swimming or hanging on branches.
The sad thing about the Terciopelo is that there are lots of non venomous snakes with similar patters that are killed out of precaution.

Skipping a hundred or more posts makes one so confused.....


Not skipping them makes ones chickens die of starvation.
So true. My chickens hate me for it.

I speed read... Couldn't tell you any of what my readback was about, most days. I just make sure nobody asked me anything, and that's it.

What time is it?

See, I just asked you something.
 
How 'bout something like this? Designed & built by an old friend for horses; don't know if it would for goats. He'd applied for a patent; don't know if it ever got to market; lost touch with him a long time ago. Admittedly not the best pictures, but I'm no Bubbles. The net is bungee cording; accommodates a flake at a time. Since I no longer have need for it, it's yours if you can put it to use.
That's a great design, and the pics look plenty good. :thumbsup.
What time is it? See, I just asked you something.
It's Howdy Doody time, of course.
 
I have 10 lockdown dates in may and still struggling to get the redwood incubator going to use for a hatcher. It climbed to 135 and melted 2 thermometers. I think I have a wafer laying around somewhere. Will start there.
sounds like a good place to start
 

New posts New threads Active threads

Back
Top Bottom