I wanted to say that I went to Waverly and traded with Danz for some chooks. She is such a nice person and I was overloaded with all of the cool birds lol. I decided this year to start breeding some Lavender Orpingtons and the roosters that I got from Danz are going to have me off to an amazing start I was up until 6am finishing projects and I finally got the wood of my incubator sealed before i set the eggs for my second hatch. I will set the eggs tonight Danz after I cut some recesses for my water trays. I need days that are 36 hours long.
It was great to meet you too. I enjoyed the time. I know what you mean by 36 hour long days. I could use those all the time. I failed to mention heat sinks for your incubator projects. I've known several people take things like baby food jars and fill them with rocks and water. Once those take on the heat of the incubator they hold the temp longer so the heat coil doesn't have to work as hard to maintain temperature. I don't know that you'll have room for those in this project but it's a good idea for the future. As long as you keep building!!!
Good luck with those eggs. You actually have more for English Lavender breeders now than I do if they all grow up to breeding age. I should really hold one more pullet for myself just in case.
@TytoAlba , coleco is an amazing person with tons of talent and extremely intelligent. I've been really impressed by his knowledge. I've seen pictures of his incubator and am amazed at the product.
Yesterday was a pretty worthless day. It was just too unbearable hot and humid to get much of anything done.
I decided to move one of the coops that needed the floor replaced and one side. It took quite a bit of juggling to get it pulled out, just to discover that not only the floor was gone, but the joists underneath had worked loose and were falling apart. To repair it would have been a bigger project than to start over. So I finished demolishing it early evening when it was cooler. I saved the doors and the roof. The roof was in perfect condition. The rest is beyond repair. Looks like I'm going to have a huge bonfire soon. It's going to take a few hours to clean up all the debris. I sure hope the next coop I have to move doesn't have the same issues. I really need to re-use this other building.
I may just try to build side panels and a base and hope I can get this roof section back on top of a different structure. That put me behind on my planned projects. It'll be nice to have the mess cleaned up so I can continue planning where everything else goes in the future. I saved the doors and some of the things I can re-use. I hope the cats discovered the massive amount of mice tunnels under there and got lots to eat last night! I keep re-thinking how I am going to set things up. I still need a few extra pens for grow outs and to separate birds so I don't want to eliminate them all.
I have been using forks on the bobcat to do a lot of this work. It's amazing how convenient they are. I'm so used to tying everything off to a bucket on the tractor and this works so much better. Just saving the time to not have to tie everything is wonderful.
