➡I accidentally bought Balut eggs: 2 live ducks! Now a Chat Thread!

[Morrigan]

Yeah, times change. My "wild" evening was yesterday, in which my husband and I dusted our flock for lice.

 

[Xarinn]

Yeah, times change. My "wild" evening was yesterday, in which my husband and I dusted our flock for lice.

I have high hopes for old age, I will be one of those crazy little old ladies that goes everywhere and drinks tequila

 

[Cryss]

If chicken baluts are no bueno I need a few days to take a break and think about everything.
I think too much and sometimes not enough.

Here's some more to think about. If you know delivery day is Thursday get there on Thursday and get chicken Balut at its "freshest" point. Maybe turn on the heat in the car to warm them a bit along the way. Have the bator already warmed up. Maybe they have a shorter window so maybe you catch it.
I know. I'm bad.

 

[Cyprus]

Who is watching your chicks!?!?

Nobody. They're chillin'.

 

[NanaKat]

Thought I'd pop in with a few pictures...
comparison of two eggs....one at 5 days and the other at 15 days incubation.


Using calibrated meat thermometers stuck thru the wall of the styrafoam incubator...if two per incubator are used, one can be a a humidity reader and the other for temperature. The humidity reader is threaded into a cotton fabric tube that also goes into the water well. It wicks up moisture in the cotton fabric and the stem of the thermometer gauges the humidity. The temperature stem is placed to the stem of the thermometer is egg high.


I user several thermometers in each styrafoam incubator. I like the acucheck too.

In my big cabinet incubator, I use the meat thermometer on each tray and then the duo therm set up as well. the left is temperature and the right is the humidity.


Finally, this is what hatched last night....with my little eye, I spy three ducklings.

 

[biophiliac]

Finally, this is what hatched last night....with my little eye, I spy three ducklings.
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I see them too

 

[Kiki]

Thought I'd pop in with a few pictures...
comparison of two eggs....one at 5 days and the other at 15 days incubation.
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Using calibrated meat thermometers stuck thru the wall of the styrafoam incubator...if two per incubator are used, one can be a a humidity reader and the other for temperature. The humidity reader is threaded into a cotton fabric tube that also goes into the water well. It wicks up moisture in the cotton fabric and the stem of the thermometer gauges the humidity. The temperature stem is placed to the stem of the thermometer is egg high.
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I user several thermometers in each styrafoam incubator. I like the acucheck too.
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In my big cabinet incubator, I use the meat thermometer on each tray and then the duo therm set up as well. the left is temperature and the right is the humidity.
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Finally, this is what hatched last night....with my little eye, I spy three ducklings.
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Nan!!!! You have fluffy butts and webs!! Congrats.
I had to shut down my computer so I could try to pry myself away to go to sleep...quick byc check on phone...and I see all this wonderful info. Thank you. I am not understanding one bit about how a meat thermometer can gauge humidity. I'm will see if I can make heads or tails of it when I wake.

 

[007Sean]

Nan!!!! You have fluffy butts and webs!! Congrats.
I had to shut down my computer so I could try to pry myself away to go to sleep...quick byc check on phone...and I see all this wonderful info. Thank you. I am not understanding one bit about how a meat thermometer can gauge humidity. I'm will see if I can make heads or tails of it when I wake.

I don't either...GQF has a hygrometer like that, you put a cloth wick over the rod and put it in the water reservoir but it reads Rh not temp.
Edited to add: Ok, now I know, use it like a wet bulb thermometer.

 

[RUNuts]

Relative humidity or wet bulb temperature. Just depends on what the scale is calibrated for, no? I believe we have conversion charts.

The water is in equilibrium between liquid and the air. Takes heat to evaporate so the thermometer is being cooled by the evaporation. Wick maximizes surface area for cooling the thermometer bulb. Hope that helps.

 

[Cryss]

Do drug users get selfies with their dealers?

NO! Well, maybe, I wouldn' know about that.
My point was why worry someone might recognise you? Not doing anything you shouldnt!