A century of Turkey talk 2000-2100.

[memphis]

Ethel is a smart girl! We are expecting another "warm up". This weather is so odd. Up to the 60's tomorrow. Then a wave of storms & it drops like a rock.

I've decided not to get a tom. Sticking with hens. Just have read too much about Tom's hurting hens, etc. So for now I'll stick with my girls. Don't need babies since I can live vicariously through all you addicts!

 

[memphis]

Quite the adventure Aurora! Did you say your DH is building a bigger brooder?

 

[OneMountainAcres]

Quite the adventure Aurora! Did you say your DH is building a bigger brooder?

....no, not yet. I'll wait a while before bugging for a bigger brooder lol. He did say something about modifying the one I have outside in the garage. Maybe we can do an extreme tweak and make a second layer

 

[duluthralphie]

Aurora I am impressed you even moved it by yourself. Mine is still sitting in the entry hallway,. I am thinking it may live there. I have been busy doing other things, like building my DW's shelving unit, (she erroneously thinks it will stop me from emptying my pockets on her buffet). I also have some trim I am trying to get done in the bathroom.

Ethel is smart for a turkey. She knows when I am tricking her. She knows when I take an egg from her nest. She knows when I am holding treats. She never fails to tell me her views.

We were suppose to have snow last night, We got less than a 1/2 inch again. We are so lucky this year I suppose it is only fair we have a cold week next week.

You could still come up here and have Penguin and Ginger. I Would give them both to you FOR FREE!!!

 

[OneMountainAcres]

Ralph- I'm sure it would've been entertaining to watch me trying to half drag, half walk this thing over the carpet across our room, meticulously move my other incubators and cords (while still running) and get this thing in place to realize it won't work there and completely backtrack the entire thing lol. It's funny now but was so frustrating the other day.

 

[duluthralphie]

Ralph- I'm sure it would've been entertaining to watch me trying to half drag, half walk this thing over the carpet across our room, meticulously move my other incubators and cords (while still running) and get this thing in place to realize it won't work there and completely backtrack the entire thing lol. It's funny now but was so frustrating the other day.

I bet.


I actually want to get mine down the basement. BUT we live in an old house and the stairs to the basement is dangerous to walk with an egg carton let alone that behemoth. I am thinking I may need her help getting it down there. I also need to clean a place for it down there. The basement becomes my brooder for the chicks when they hatch for a week or so. The basement is tad more moist than upstairs.

I even thought by removing the innards it would be lighter. All the innards do not weigh a pound, I have no idea where all the weight comes from.

 

[dheltzel]

Ralph- I'm sure it would've been entertaining to watch me trying to half drag, half walk this thing over the carpet across our room, meticulously move my other incubators and cords (while still running) and get this thing in place to realize it won't work there and completely backtrack the entire thing lol. It's funny now but was so frustrating the other day.

Tape measures are a great help - measure twice and move once. I sure wish I could remember that.
But hindsight is always 20/20. We all done stuff like that. Just last week I carefully manueuvered a 2x4 into a difficult to reach spot in the coop to install as a roost, only to find that it was about 4 inches too long, I forgot to measure first, I just assumed the space was 8 ft. Getting it back out to saw was more work than getting it in, which I also had to do again.

 

[dheltzel]

I actually want to get mine down the basement. BUT we live in an old house and the stairs to the basement is dangerous to walk with an egg carton let alone that behemoth. I am thinking I may need her help getting it down there. I also need to clean a place for it down there. The basement becomes my brooder for the chicks when they hatch for a week or so. The basement is tad more moist than upstairs.

I even thought by removing the innards it would be lighter. All the innards do not weigh a pound, I have no idea where all the weight comes from.

The boards that make up the cabinet and the motors (turner and fan). Each one seems light, but all together they add up to a lot more than the sum of the parts because of some physics phenomena related to quantum mechanics.

 

[memphis]

Ralph...maybe your DW would let the incubator become a design element in your living room like Aurora's.

 

[dheltzel]

Ralph...maybe your DW would let the incubator become a design element in your living room like Aurora's.

"Design element" sure, just make sure it doesn't become a "monument to all the crap I put up with from my spouse".