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Quote: Thank you! Good luck finding a companion closer in age to Uno. I feel for you, it's a tough time of year to find chicks. Daniel I could use 10 of those waterers myself. If you do order more be sure and let me know and I'll run my share over to you. I like the idea of saving on...

Quote: Yup got the auto-egg turner....I agree its a worthwhile investment. Also from my brief experience with the LG I have to say adding plenty of humidity wells would be a plus. I had aquarium tubing running thru the small holes on the top of the LG to the wells, a dish, and 2 sponges ...

SunnyDawn Bloomie, most of the fires are in Nevada from Reno to Lovelock. That system that came through and dumped all that hail on us also touched off several fires. From what I've heard on the news almost all of them are completely contained or pretty close. The one north Of Genny...

HorseFeatherz NV What a day yesterday! Thunder, lightning, wind, rain, hail, flooding and power outage. Ran around like a crazy chicken lady getting everyone in who needed help, trying to shield them from the grape sized hail. Course not a drop fell on the fire - which I can see from my...

Quote: That's some incubator!!!! Are you going to start a chicken ranch on that land ????

Howdy from Nomans Land Ya'll are talkin' about the hot weather while we're feelin' a cool and damp 65 o'r here on the homestead. We went from the high 90's to 65 never know what the new morn will bring! The heat had been a concern for me as well. We installed fans in both coops to circulate...

Quote: Hey Thanks! I hope that the calibrating of the thermometer/hyrdometer was somewhere close to 20 degrees off so that my addition is good on the humidity level. I jus hate havin' to work with imperfection! errrrrrr maybe I should fire myself I'm nervous about the chicks stickin' and or...

Quote: Penturner Thank ya for the info.....I thought that I was safe setting all 7 eggs in the incubator , despite the broody having partially setting the 3, but then I got scared I'd really messed-up. SunnyDawn heres the kink to the newspaper write up on the accident...

Hey Ya'll Its been a wild ride around here the past few days. We went fishin' up at Angel Lake and witnessed a stuck rock climber get rescued by Search & Rescue. What we wernt expectin' was to witness the Rescue helicopter crash........directly in front of us! No exaggeration, it was...

Good Day Ya'll Sunny Dawn yer story made me giggle.....I could see that roo doin' the Happy Dance! We have 7 eggs in the incubator and 3 youngin's in the brooder tank....we may end up with more roos than hens, so if ya "misplace" a roo agin, jus holler (jus pokin' fun at ya ) Today is Day...

Good Saturday Morn to Ya'll! We have a beautiful blue sky the day after the monster storm system with lightening, thunder and wind that left behind a broken tree. ....reckon it could'a been worse. The granchickie & me painted the nest boxes and the wood trim inside the coop yesterday. She's...

Quote: LOL!!! We call it the Chick-Mahal - the ultimate henhouse! We are thinking of pitching a new reality TV show to RFD-TV - Pimp My Henhouse! What do you think - an instant hit? pimp my henhouse That's a show I'd watch! aubreynoramarie in my world view its a natural thang fer a...

Quote: Bein' a friend in good times and bad....priceless. She's fortunate to have ya. WOW thats a primitive set up ya used and it worked! Reckon it may send some at BYC into bator-boggle to know that!! I'm guilty of not sendin' out Independence Day greetin's as well. Havin' a 9 yr old...

Quote: :thumbsup Awesome ideer! Lookin' forward to seein' the finished coop.

Quote: Penturner, yer too late givin' that "dont drive yerself crazy" advice! Can ya hear me now? Seriously.... I did the calibration using the salt method 2 days ago.....think I got things purdy durn close, but then who knows fer sure. As of today: The digital temp/humi reader from...

DANG! I had the incubator all regulated, after adding the eggs the blasted temp has been swingin' up 'n down..... since 10:30pm. How much damage does a swing of 4 degrees do?

Quote: rofl.. you didn't get the gist of my posts huh?? i don't monitor it at all.... half the time i'm lucky if there's water in there at all..... and i usually add water at lockdown, but i just fill the things at the bottom and wait for pips... this is gonna sound silly, but if i do...

Quote: Awwww Picklepoop! (as we say on the homestead ) Its never a good feelin' to loose a chicken, small or big, young 'r old !! Aint lost a chick to Cocci, but had my Mother doin' a "cocci-coo-coo" dance thinkin' we were gunna git sick from the chicks! Geeesh, what people wont tell ya...

Quote: Quote: Quote: Howdy Gang We been busy doin' the first of the month runnin' to town fer supplies, took the granchickie fishin' and she skunk'd us! Got her limit in under 30 minutes. After a fish fry we're headin' back to town fer ice cream & fireworks. Anyhoooo..........I'm...

Quote: How'd ya get to the chick? Did ya break the shell yerself, and how?