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OK - this is me being naive...
Why would an old timer's thread be against the rules and / or deleted?
Am I missing sumptin?
Naive, dear Mikey. Your leg is being pulled. OT is Off Topic.
I would never pull Mikey's leg.
OK, maybe just a little. But this time I was being serious.
My old, styrofoam, Little Giant incubator used to have "seizures. It had this stupid wing nut screw ontop to adjust the heat. One tiny little touch of that thing, or sometimes not touching it, would cause enormous swings in temperature.
Luckily, I never seemed to have any hatches that were destroyed by it. In fact, I had amazingly good percentages, especially with the guinea eggs, which is what I hatched the most of. Still air, hand tuning and no hygrometer. I would just fill the water trough with some water towards the end to increase humidity and viola-chicks!
I think it actually helped that I packed the thing with eggs. Probably 40 at a time, proabably kept them from temperature swings inside when the thermostat had seizures. I wasn't ever able to hatch a peafowl egg, though. I always used broody peahens for those.
When I get my dream farm I plan on making one of the whinebators so, Meg, you need to figure out all the kinks. I'll be counting on your plans to work!
On another note, all this rain is not good for my Cornish X. I've noticed some sort of "droopiness" of the tail feathers the last two days. I think I need to start processing in earnest before anybody actually gets sick. Not sure what's going on, maybe it's nothing but I don't like droopy tails.
Oh, and one of those Cornish Roos thought he was going to be a tough guy today and tried to "attack" my leg. I guess you can imagine how far he got with that attempt!
Let's just say that juvenile Cornish X are not nearly as intimidating as 1,500 lb longhorn bulls or 1,,200 lb teenaged stallions. He won't be trying that tomorrow, I'm sure.
OK - this is me being naive...
Why would an old timer's thread be against the rules and / or deleted?
Am I missing sumptin?
Naive, dear Mikey. Your leg is being pulled. OT is Off Topic.
I would never pull Mikey's leg.
OK, maybe just a little. But this time I was being serious.
My old, styrofoam, Little Giant incubator used to have "seizures. It had this stupid wing nut screw ontop to adjust the heat. One tiny little touch of that thing, or sometimes not touching it, would cause enormous swings in temperature.
Luckily, I never seemed to have any hatches that were destroyed by it. In fact, I had amazingly good percentages, especially with the guinea eggs, which is what I hatched the most of. Still air, hand tuning and no hygrometer. I would just fill the water trough with some water towards the end to increase humidity and viola-chicks!
I think it actually helped that I packed the thing with eggs. Probably 40 at a time, proabably kept them from temperature swings inside when the thermostat had seizures. I wasn't ever able to hatch a peafowl egg, though. I always used broody peahens for those.
When I get my dream farm I plan on making one of the whinebators so, Meg, you need to figure out all the kinks. I'll be counting on your plans to work!
On another note, all this rain is not good for my Cornish X. I've noticed some sort of "droopiness" of the tail feathers the last two days. I think I need to start processing in earnest before anybody actually gets sick. Not sure what's going on, maybe it's nothing but I don't like droopy tails.
Oh, and one of those Cornish Roos thought he was going to be a tough guy today and tried to "attack" my leg. I guess you can imagine how far he got with that attempt!
