➡ Quail Hatch Along🥚

[BantyChooks]

Can I skip these 3?

YES. That's what I've been trying to tell you. If you simply learn both systems of measurement, by, say, changing your weather station to read Celsius, then you won't have to do the math in nearly so many situations. You'll just know, the same way you know Fahrenheit.

 

[Kiki]

To what extent? I can guarantee you that if you try to build a chicken coop but with measurements only precise to within a foot, you're going to have a real hard time of it. Yet at the same time, tolerances of .0000000001 aren't possible or useful. The concept itself is absolutely useful for daily life. Everything around you, every product of the modern age, owes its existence to the continually refined definition of "precise".

I think I misread your last post.

 

[Kiki]

YES. That's what I've been trying to tell you. If you simply learn both systems of measurement, by, say, changing your weather station to read Celsius, then you won't have to do the math in nearly so many situations. You'll just know, the same way you know Fahrenheit.

Why am I just now being force to learn this at my age?

 

[BantyChooks]

I think I misread your last post.

It's okay, most people start getting crosseyed from boredom about two posts into any given one of my random essays/rants, so you made it longer than expected.

 

[ShrekDawg]

No.
And I don't even know my colors yet.
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Glad it’s not just me

And pretty quail whatever color it is

This is what I tell my work mates:
2+2 is somewhere between 3 and 5. How accurate is the "2"?

In other words, how much time, money, and effort do you want to invest in an answer that may or may not be to the question asked? Imprecise or efficient?

How close is close enough? For example, -20°C is bloody cold. So is -5°C. Therefore, anything less than 33°F is cold. Oops metric, anything less than 273.706°K is cold.

Did you hear about the chemist who froze himself to absolute zero?

He is 0K. (0°K).

For you Aggies, 0°K is absolute zero.

This makes sense. I think. Idk.

But the joke was funny!

X2

Kiki - convert in your head.

0°C = 32°F
0*2+32=32 ==> Cold

25°C = 77°F
25*2+32=82 ==> Good

50°C = 122°
50*2+32= 132 ==> Hot

Close enough for government work.

For precision, x°C*9/5+32=y°F. Real easy to derive as long as you know 2 measurements in both.

May the ma^2 be with you!

Huh??

Wait...it's that easy?
Multiple the celcuis crap by two then add 32.

I had no clue.

Me neither lol well I think I remember vaguely from school but that was years ago lol

That I leave up to the context. In certain areas, or goals, precision to dozens of decimal places is not only necessary, but it is also a thing of beauty. One needs to look no further than to the disastrous first images from the Hubble telescope to see that. In others, such as figuring out if your American friends are getting sunburnt or frostbitten... conserving time ekes out precedence.

Precision in itself risks becoming fanatical, self absorbed, pointless. This is not to say that sloppiness should be revered, but rather that mechanical progress should be tempered with a respect for human craftmanship. I am all for being specific in one's language, for vague references are the cover of fools—but I also see limits for rationality being breached now and then.

You’re so much smarter than me

You only need to know this to build elevators.
You don't need it for real life.

I mean, idk, some would argue that

Times 9, divided by 5, plus 32.

Yeah but those are separate formulas right?

Can I skip these 3?

Pretty sure they’re separate formulas. Look at nuts first post, she listed two. Ones “good enough”, the other (and the one Banty also listed) is for precision/more precise haha

So I think the other one is fine haha although neither takes very long lol

 

[BantyChooks]

Why am I just now being force to learn this at my age?

Good question. It is beyond me why the United States refuses to switch.
I bet you become fully comfortable with the system in under a year.

 

[Kiki]

It's 30.556 but it feels like 35.

 

[sarabeth485]

Ok. So it is day 21 and I have two eggs left in the incubator. Normally I would say they’re done...but...

I just had one pip and hatch last night, all nonchalant, like it was no big deal.

I candled them tonight and the embryos look well developed (fills the eggs) and the air sacks look drawn down. That is about all I can tell.

Thoughts? Would water testing tell me anything. Am I just wishful thinking?

 

[BantyChooks]

Yeah but those are separate formulas right?

Yep, I listed the more accurate one, but in a form I thought Kiki would find less "math-y".

 

[muddy75]

They swallowed them whole. I thought for sure they were going to get sick but they didn't so it has convinced me that I could feed them whole quail but I just won't.

my french bulldog once ate a whole squirrel skin before DH got finished skinning and disposal!!! he was constipated and pooping fur for a week!!