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[DobieLover]

I started shipping hatching eggs last week.

I found a video on YouTube showing how to make your own foam egg shippers out of 3" mattress toppers. The lady mentioned she bought hers at Walmart. I looked on Amazon and found one for half the price so I bought that one.

When I started to drill the holes for the eggs it worked okay for about the first 3 holes and then it started to grab and twist and mangle the foam to the point where I had to throw the first block away. I managed to get through two more blocks so I could ship a batch of eggs yesterday but they were very ugly and I was not at all happy.

While I lay awake until past 1:00 in the morning trouble shooting literally everything in my life, it suddenly dawned on me, "what if I freeze the block before trying to drill it?" The only difference I could see between the topper I purchased and the one the lady on the video purchased was mine had "cool gel" memory foam. Which they all seem to have these days! Maybe that had something to do with it. Well sure enough, I took my block out of the freezer and it drilled beautifully! So much faster and very clean and neat.

I also saved the plugs and sliced them into four pieces each to stick in the bottom of each of these holes to further cushion the eggs.

 

[RoyalChick]

I started shipping hatching eggs last week.

I found a video on YouTube showing how to make your own foam egg shippers out of 3" mattress toppers. The lady mentioned she bought hers at Walmart. I looked on Amazon and found one for half the price so I bought that one.

When I started to drill the holes for the eggs it worked okay for about the first 3 holes and then it started to grab and twist and mangle the foam to the point where I had to throw the first block away. I managed to get through two more blocks so I could ship a batch of eggs yesterday but they were very ugly and I was not at all happy.

While I lay awake until past 1:00 in the morning trouble shooting literally everything in my life, it suddenly dawned on me, "what if I freeze the block before trying to drill it?" The only difference I could see between the topper I purchased and the one the lady on the video purchased was mine had "cool gel" memory foam. Which they all seem to have these days! Maybe that had something to do with it. Well sure enough, I took my block out of the freezer and it drilled beautifully! So much faster and very clean and neat.

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I also saved the plugs and sliced them into four pieces each to stick in the bottom of each of these holes to further cushion the eggs.

Good thinking!

 

[sourland]

I started shipping hatching eggs last week.

I found a video on YouTube showing how to make your own foam egg shippers out of 3" mattress toppers. The lady mentioned she bought hers at Walmart. I looked on Amazon and found one for half the price so I bought that one.

When I started to drill the holes for the eggs it worked okay for about the first 3 holes and then it started to grab and twist and mangle the foam to the point where I had to throw the first block away. I managed to get through two more blocks so I could ship a batch of eggs yesterday but they were very ugly and I was not at all happy.

While I lay awake until past 1:00 in the morning trouble shooting literally everything in my life, it suddenly dawned on me, "what if I freeze the block before trying to drill it?" The only difference I could see between the topper I purchased and the one the lady on the video purchased was mine had "cool gel" memory foam. Which they all seem to have these days! Maybe that had something to do with it. Well sure enough, I took my block out of the freezer and it drilled beautifully! So much faster and very clean and neat.

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I also saved the plugs and sliced them into four pieces each to stick in the bottom of each of these holes to further cushion the eggs.

 

[pennyJo1960]

I started shipping hatching eggs last week.

I found a video on YouTube showing how to make your own foam egg shippers out of 3" mattress toppers. The lady mentioned she bought hers at Walmart. I looked on Amazon and found one for half the price so I bought that one.

When I started to drill the holes for the eggs it worked okay for about the first 3 holes and then it started to grab and twist and mangle the foam to the point where I had to throw the first block away. I managed to get through two more blocks so I could ship a batch of eggs yesterday but they were very ugly and I was not at all happy.

While I lay awake until past 1:00 in the morning trouble shooting literally everything in my life, it suddenly dawned on me, "what if I freeze the block before trying to drill it?" The only difference I could see between the topper I purchased and the one the lady on the video purchased was mine had "cool gel" memory foam. Which they all seem to have these days! Maybe that had something to do with it. Well sure enough, I took my block out of the freezer and it drilled beautifully! So much faster and very clean and neat.

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I also saved the plugs and sliced them into four pieces each to stick in the bottom of each of these holes to further cushion the eggs.

Have to remember that when I ship any.

 

[SkyAJK]

Good Afternoon, it is now 2:50pm Tuesday and being the last day of March, gee times just past me by. I am sleepy as anything..but soon I will have to go down the garden attending to my chickens.

Tomorrow morning I wake up and here it is....April and of course soon come April fool day and Easter long weekend.

Trying to cut my dogs long toes nails and they just scream as soon as they see the nailclip come near them...

 

[pennyJo1960]

Good Afternoon, it is now 2:50pm Tuesday and being the last day of March, gee times just past me by. I am sleepy as anything..but soon I will have to go down the garden attending to my chickens.

Tomorrow morning I wake up and here it is....April and of course soon come April fool day and Easter long weekend.

Trying to cut my dogs long toes nails and they just scream as soon as they see the nailclip come near them...

Starting as pups I use two people then Dremel with cone sanding head dremel hold toe firmly sand as close to the quick without hitting it.

 

[DobieLover]

@SkyAJK I also use a Dremel like @pennyJo1960 does. But Piper is the only dog I trained to tolerate it as a puppy. All the Dobies were trained as adults.
One thing I do differently is that I start by doing a quick shaping of the bottom of the nail and only remove a small amount of length and move on to the next nail on the same foot. Then I go back over each nail and tap down the length a little at a time and move on. I make about 3 passes over the nails on each foot before moving on to the next foot. The Dremel is not only loud and vibrates through the foot (they need to learn that although scary and uncomfortable at first, it doesn't hurt and they will not be allowed to get up until it is over) but it gets hot.

If you leave it buzzing down on a nail too long it is going to make it hot AND you are getting ever closer to the sensitive quick. Removing smaller amounts of nail on each toe avoids the heat build up. The last thing you want to do when first training them is to quick them.

One last thing: they get a special treat after getting their nails done. This very special treat is ONLY for after getting nails done and nothing else. My girls know this.

I will do nails, ears and teeth all in one session on both girls. Then they get a dumpster load of treats.

 

[DobieLover]

Good morning Cafe. Coffee is ready.

We had a thunderstorm last night that Bella woke me up for.

 

[Sally PB]

The friction of the Dremel wheel also generates heat. If you leave it buzzing down on a nail too long it is going to make it hot AND you are getting ever closer to the sensitive quick. Removing smaller amounts of nail on each toe avoids the heat build up. That last thing you want to do when first training them this is to quick them.

Yes! This!

When we had Dobes, we started them as pups with the Dremel for nail trimming. Another thing that helped was for me to hold the nail firmly with fingers on my left hand, and do the Dremeling with my right. This helped to dampen the vibration.

 

[DobieLover]

Yes! This!

When we had Dobes, we started them as pups with the Dremel for nail trimming. Another thing that helped was for me to hold the nail firmly with fingers on my left hand, and do the Dremeling with my right. This helped to dampen the vibration.

Yes! This!

I do this too and forgot to mention it. I've been scaling dog teeth and Dremeling dog nails for 30 years now.

Little dogs are WAY harder to do than big dogs. They squirm more, are harder to hold and everything is smaller so you either can't get your fingers in their mouth easily or you struggle to get the Dremel wheel where you need it without hitting a toe pad.