Confessions of a first time nervous wreck

[youngbiddy]

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Let us know how they do! I sure could use some good news and cute pics right now. Perhaps this wouldn't bother me so much if I didn't have lots of other things going on right now like DH having back surgery (on the day I set the eggs, Tuesday) and the boys coming down with a small stomach bug.

 

[enggass]

I hear you - I have my doubts as well. What makes it worse is my eggs are Welsummers and Marans so Candling is useless. With the Welsummers I can see just enough to think nothing is going on when in reality I just can't see much. At least with the Marans you have no choice but to wait and see. I did finally breakdown today and ordered the Brinsea Spot Check Thermometer. Supposedly 10-20 times more accurate than other digitals and within .2º +/-.
We all need to keep the faith!
Steve

 

[youngbiddy]

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Most of mine are Marans, too. The Bev Davis line is impossible, and I could very faintly see a darker spot in the yolk of the Gene C1 line eggs. I could see my own Red Star eggs, and the few Blue Orpingtons I got in the mail don't seem to be doing anything. They were badly shaken, though. 2 out of 5 eggs broken.

On a happy note, the digital is reading 101-101.5 now everywhere I put it. I should have taken those GD mercury ones out 3 days ago, they've been keeping me awake at night for nothing.

 

[beesong]

I think I need to buy stock in GD. They sure do make a lot of stuff. Right now I'm especially peeved with their incubators and thermometers.

 

[chickengrl]

Does GD make black labradors? I am pretty sure that is who made my 18 month old, 86 pound puppy who decided to eat my BRAND new Chicken Health Handbook I just got from Amazon. I have been looking for the stamp/tag on his forhead. but cannot seem to find it. He is good with chickens, so for tonight he lives to see another day.

 

[Emmalion]

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Check in the ear I know mine was made by GD. 2.5 y/o Dudley lad who thinks hes a moose but as small as a mouse. Eats everything he can find. I'm worried about my poor incubator once he sniffs out those eggs.

 

[youngbiddy]

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Here you go...
http://images.cheezburger.com/completestore/2010/2/18/129109922990323557.jpg

 

[Poo On My Shoe's]

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Here you go...
http://images.cheezburger.com/completestore/2010/2/18/129109922990323557.jpg

Trying to not derail this thread but if you take that hole and make it 32" long and 18" tall and switch the dog to a chocolate lab thats what I came home to a few years back, oh yea the next day she ate the entire corner off a kitchen cabinet (door and the cabinet itself). Luckily those were the only 2 times she destroyed things in the house. Definitely a "GD" brand Lab!

 

[youngbiddy]

There's a book titled 'The Fourth Hand' by John Irving that features a Lab prone to what it's owner fondly calls "dietary indiscretions". Classic Lab trait, it's quite the apt phrase. LOL