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[liz9910]

This happened to a couple of us on another thread.  Seems to be working fine now, but our original posts seem to have disappeared into the ether.

It's fixed now thankfully

 

[liz9910]

Yes, I ordered direct from their website. I'm trying not to look around to see if it is cheaper anywhere else!

Incubator warehouse is a few dollars mor expensive I almost bought it today but chickened out haha

 

[zooweemama]

See the floppy comb, Ron? They are coming along!

How are the duck eggs doing?

 

[PetRock]

Love all the silkie pics! I'm determined to not add them to my list of wanted breeds but the cute pics make them hard to resist!

 

[HighNDryFarm]

OK, I have some incubator questions...got my Brinsea Octagon 20 with the humidity pump and set it up to get ready to set eggs this weekend. I'm surprised at how far the turner rocks....is that right? I know on the Little Giant it moved so slow you couldn't even see it move but this one moves really far and often. It looks like it would dump the eggs it goes so far. Is that working right? And then on the humidity pump, the tubing that wraps around the little thing that turns is really tight. Is that supposed to be tight? Is it supposed to pinch it off so the moister only get's through when needed?

 

[ronott1]

OK, I have some incubator questions...got my Brinsea Octagon 20 with the humidity pump and set it up to get ready to set eggs this weekend. I'm surprised at how far the turner rocks....is that right? I know on the Little Giant it moved so slow you couldn't even see it move but this one moves really far and often. It looks like it would dump the eggs it goes so far. Is that working right? And then on the humidity pump, the tubing that wraps around the little thing that turns is really tight. Is that supposed to be tight? Is it supposed to pinch it off so the moister only get's through when needed?

The Brinsea does rock a long distance. Make sure everything is out of the way.

The pump is tight. It also needs to be wound in the correct direction to make the water flow into the humidity pad.

I finally had to fill the water tank yesterday--after 4 staggered hatches. It has been running since the day I got it!

Have fun!

 

[ronott1]

See the floppy comb, Ron? They are coming along!

How are the duck eggs doing?

Gorgeous!

The Duck eggs still have two weeks to hatch. They take a week longer than Chickens. I did not candle them yesterday when I moved the RIRs in and the Bresse out to the hatcher.

 

[gryeyes]

Love all the silkie pics! I'm determined to not add them to my list of wanted breeds but the cute pics make them hard to resist!

How funny. I never thought Silkies were worth all the oohs and aahs their photos generate. I like chickens which look like chickens. Poofy little things, they're like poodles of the chicken world. I even gave away a couple of siklie chicks from a mixed pullet chick order. They need special care, they're stupid looking, and cant roost, why would I want those? Then those silkie chicks in my friends' flock grew up. The best photo does not do silkies justice! You gotta see 'em puttering about in their little chinese pants, cherkling to themselves. So now I have a silkie roo in my flock and a broody house silkie setting on eggs in the brooder bin. They are SO sweet! And the silkie roo is fearless (although he knows his place in the rooster pecking order). I "get" the silkie adoration now.

 

[ChickNmamma]

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I know, I was the same way. I was NOT going to get those oddball looking birds, couldn't see, wouldn't roost... only the one chick in the feedstore was "blue" and I have discovered I really like that color so I gave it a chance. Then - about as soon as it started laying it decided to go broody (which is why I was buying chickens anyway).. and now I have 5 silkies and 2 silkie mixes (or three if you want to count the one the broody hatched from her own egg)... They are such sweet birds and great mommies.

 

[Happy Chooks]

Years ago my husband forgot my birthday and it seemed like every year he had some excuse why he couldn't get me a present, "You always have the checkbook", "If I use my debit card, you'll see it online", yada yada yada....so one year I got myself a present, wrapped it up, signed his name to it and spent a LOT of money on it! I told him about a week before my birthday that he'd lost his privileges to buy me a present and so I would "help" him from now on. Every year I start tormenting him with how much he must love me, that I can't believe he's spend SOOOOOOOOOOO much money on meeeee!!!!!! He begs me to give him another chance! Swears he won't ever forget again! But it's really better this way, I'm not continually disappointed, he's not stressed over what to get me and really, it's fun. Neither one of us would change it now. After 34 years of marriage you figure out how to keep the peace!

My grandmother used to do the same thing. Only the story was, my grandfather bought her jewelry for her Christmas present. She didn't like what he bought and took it back. So he told her to just buy her own presents, which she was perfectly happy with. She'd wrap them up and then ooooooh and aahhhhh with comments like "I wonder what this is" or even funnier she'd forget what she had bought herself. She did this for as long as I can remember up until 8 years ago when my grandfather passed away.

I have been told to watch the chicken talk too. Sometimes I can tell--When their eyes glaze over a bit I know it is time to talk about something else...

So yesterday someone told me "all you want to talk about is chickens" oh dear maybe I'm too obsessed?

Isn't that why we meet up in person, so we can talk chickens all DAY long and not bore each other? I will admit to having a BYC friend that I talk to more than I talk to my mother. Goodness knows my DH doesn't want to hear it.

Something weird is going on, when I try to leave posts in certain forums I get an error message saying I'm new and my posts have to be approved by a mod.

There was a bug. It should be fixed now.

Quote: Ya, rilly!