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post #65741 of 88735
2/25/12 at 1:18am
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Hello Everyone! I am in Deer Park, Washington, just North of Spokane.... I am totally new here and new to hatching.  I've been fussing with my homemade incubator cabinet (it looks awesome!) but really am struggling with getting the temp below 103 degrees.  I don't know what else to do as I have a rheostat as well a running a fan.  I am trying to get ready to set 36 eggs!
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You need ventilation of some kind
Most incubators will have some kind of cross ventilation holes.
It looks pretty!
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post #65742 of 88735
2/25/12 at 5:35am

An inch on the ground and coming down hard!

 "The true soldier fights not because he hates what is in front of him, but because he loves what is behind him." 

G. K. Chesterton

 "The true soldier fights not because he hates what is in front of him, but because he loves what is behind him." 

G. K. Chesterton

post #65743 of 88735
2/25/12 at 7:49am

We are gettin snow and the ground is turning white.

                    Striving for perfection    Settling for nothing short of excellence !!!!       
 Quincy blue merl Aussie with 2 blue eyes,  1 beloved Quaker parrot  Buddy who passed 4/10/09
    /         

                    Striving for perfection    Settling for nothing short of excellence !!!!       
 Quincy blue merl Aussie with 2 blue eyes,  1 beloved Quaker parrot  Buddy who passed 4/10/09
    /         

post #65744 of 88735
2/25/12 at 8:05am
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Well, the cow with mastitis finally calved yesterday, and her heifer calf went to be mothered by the young heifer who lost a calf to cord compromise (and who Margo's been milking twice a day for a week, such fun: more work during calving season); huge beautiful calf at birth, just like the last two who dwindled and made it to weaning 250 pounds lighter than their age-mates. Not happy about culling the cow, but she's the first mastitis case in the herd ever and at least gave me a purebred daughter to follow.
Nine cows to go two weeks into calving season. Two look very close, another two look like they may be empty (one of those won't be two until late May, the other weaned a calf that was 80% of her body weight and may not have had the body fat to ovulate last summer). It takes me about an hour twice a day to check all of them right now because their round bale got dropped the other side of the orchard and I con't do visual checks while doing chicken stuff. Makes for a very long day even when I'm not dealing with Anni-Frid and Agnetha's idea of a funny joke: digging nest holes under the foundation of the hoop house so that I get to dig for eggs :barnie
So, anyway: congratulations to those who are willing, commisterations for those who are grieving, seeya in Monroe, sorry, busy.



Cute photo with all the calves in the field, but is it yours? Where are all the puddles? A cat can't stand in my yard without sinking to its belly in mud, much less a cow! And there is another strange thing about your photo, well 3 more: The trees are not blowing sideways, the sky is not an ominous shade of grey/black/orange and I think those dark things on the ground below the cows are called shadows, and I'm pretty sure that one of those has not been detected in Western Washington since October.  THIS PHOTO HAS BEEN PHOTOSHOPPED!

 

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                    Striving for perfection    Settling for nothing short of excellence !!!!       
 Quincy blue merl Aussie with 2 blue eyes,  1 beloved Quaker parrot  Buddy who passed 4/10/09
    /         

                    Striving for perfection    Settling for nothing short of excellence !!!!       
 Quincy blue merl Aussie with 2 blue eyes,  1 beloved Quaker parrot  Buddy who passed 4/10/09
    /         

post #65745 of 88735
2/25/12 at 8:11am
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Originally Posted by Millhouse View Post

Hello Everyone! I am in Deer Park, Washington, just North of Spokane.... I am totally new here and new to hatching.  I've been fussing with my homemade incubator cabinet (it looks awesome!) but really am struggling with getting the temp below 103 degrees.  I don't know what else to do as I have a rheostat as well a running a fan.  I am trying to get ready to set 36 eggs!

Any suggestions?my homemade cabinet incubator, and I made it myself!

I would say a THERMOSTAT ! rather than the Rheostat. Rheostat is basically a dimmer switch. A thermostat will turn the heat source of and on as needed to maintain the temp in a given range.
 

 

                    Striving for perfection    Settling for nothing short of excellence !!!!       
 Quincy blue merl Aussie with 2 blue eyes,  1 beloved Quaker parrot  Buddy who passed 4/10/09
    /         

                    Striving for perfection    Settling for nothing short of excellence !!!!       
 Quincy blue merl Aussie with 2 blue eyes,  1 beloved Quaker parrot  Buddy who passed 4/10/09
    /         

post #65746 of 88735
2/25/12 at 8:17am

One more thing to look for and I don't think it has been mentioned is the waddle color. A males waddles will turn red while the female will stay pale up until she starts laying. This usually happens way before the pointed hackle and saddle feathers come in. I've noticed it a lot at 4 weeks.
 

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That's a tough one!! Sometimes, you can see their combs are just a little more pronounced then the pullets.  You may have to wait till they start crowing, chickens are posers you know!!  LOL!!
 

 


Something else to look for is the shape of the hackle feathers.  A male has pointed ends and the female has rounded ends.  Yours might still be a little young.
 

 



 

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post #65747 of 88735
2/25/12 at 8:44am

Unreal how hard the snow been falling. Now over 6 inches. Wonder how long power will stay on cause it is heavy snow.

 "The true soldier fights not because he hates what is in front of him, but because he loves what is behind him." 

G. K. Chesterton

 "The true soldier fights not because he hates what is in front of him, but because he loves what is behind him." 

G. K. Chesterton

post #65748 of 88735
2/25/12 at 9:19am
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Unreal how hard the snow been falling. Now over 6 inches. Wonder how long power will stay on cause it is heavy snow.


It's trying here, but my anti-s*** dance is holding it off.

 

Russ
 

 

 

 

If all the beasts were gone, men would die from a great loneliness of spirit,

for whatever happens to the beasts also happens to the man.

All things are connected.
Whatever befalls the Earth befalls the sons of the Earth.

 

       ― Chief Seattle

 

 

If all the beasts were gone, men would die from a great loneliness of spirit,

for whatever happens to the beasts also happens to the man.

All things are connected.
Whatever befalls the Earth befalls the sons of the Earth.

 

       ― Chief Seattle

post #65749 of 88735
2/25/12 at 9:27am
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. . .I read an interview of his teacher, she is as concerned about the boy, as she is about the little girl. Both children are in a bad situations. 

 

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. . .From what I've been hearing on KIRO news radio, it sounds like he has had a terrible home life.   . . .He apparently got the gun from his dad's house on one of his visits.  He put it in his backpack and took it to school because he was planning on running away.  When he dropped his backpack on the desk, the gun fired.


Your right!! And so this little guy has just been placed in a worse situation. . .when it was an accident!!! REALLY??

. . .He needs counseling to help him understand, if he truly didn't mean to hurt anyone with the gun, why is he being treated like a criminal???  And can you imagine the depth of horror he must feel because it accidentally went off and hurt someone???  It makes me want to cry!! 

 

The problem for me is, that it's REALLY hard for a handgun to go off ACCIDENTALLY  the way it was explained. Dropping a backpack, and having the gun go off, and then it hit the girl the way it did is EXTREMELY unlikely. (We have handguns, and they simply don't work that way)

 

I"m not saying it COULDN'T happen, just very unlikely.

 

Now, everyone on here B#$%&^S about the media, yet everyone is avidly reading the media coverage of this, or watching on the NEWS, or listening on the radio, yet the truth is still not known. We should not jump to conclusions, EITHER way. (If we want the media to stop all it's nonsense, it's up to us to make it happen, they won't go away if we keep "supporting" them)

 

The little boy needs to be evaluated for his own and everyone else's well being and safety. Only then can adequate care be given to him.

 

I too feel for him and the little girl that was hurt, and the families.

 

(Sorry for the rant - but we simply don't have all the information to draw any informed conclusions)

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Ducks are gone, and chickens are gone - temporarily

post #65750 of 88735
2/25/12 at 9:44am

Flying Applesauce! Who's throwing this stuff at me? The Ogress is getting ready to roll a big snowball down her mountain to squash you.

 

I have today off so I was hoping to pull up all the dead bracken fern that are cluttering my garden, but I can't find them now.

 

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A. To show the opossum and armadillo it could be done.
Q. Why did the chicken cross the road.
A. To show the opossum and armadillo it could be done.
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