Dixie Chicks

[Alaskan]

Most houses here are wood... And yep, things do tend to crack up here... You have to plan for it. Sheetrock walls are high maintenance here.... My wood walls do fine.

The oldest part of my house though was built as a bomb shelter... Cinderblock filled with rebar and concrete And THAT part shakes crazy bad whenever we gave a quake. When I built onto this house, I specifically rearanged things so that bedrooms are no longer in the bunker, because that WAS scary. In the new parts of the house, we just sit and ride out shocks..... It is all good!

 

[Amberjem]

You said chicks, lol...

Hey! I got the Chicken Coop Pic of the Week!

wow wooohoo kewl will have to go peek at it

Amber... Short earthquake update... It was really big, noone died.

how big was it and glad everyones fine

Anyone ever see this? Or better yet try this...
http://www.motherearthnews.com/home...uying-fertilized-chicken-eggs-zmaz74zhol.aspx
Picking eggs based on shape supposedly for more gender control.

I kinda got to agrue with Alaska makes sense that the egg making isnt gonna change because of sex unless it's maybe been genetically breed into it or something
..but it sounds like a kewl idea and might be worth exploring just out of curiosity without wanting to depend on it

Most houses here are wood... And yep, things do tend to crack up here... You have to plan for it. Sheetrock walls are high maintenance here.... My wood walls do fine.

The oldest part of my house though was built as a bomb shelter... Cinderblock filled with rebar and concrete

And THAT part shakes crazy bad whenever we gave a quake. When I built onto this house, I specifically rearanged things so that bedrooms are no longer in the bunker, because that WAS scary. In the new parts of the house, we just sit and ride out shocks..... It is all good!

haha thats kinda funny the bunker is scarier then anything else considering it's supose to be the safestest ect

 

[perchie.girl]

My thoughts earthquake construction:

flexible houses

flexible utility connections

All sitting on a semi rigid fecundation (foundation ahem love spell check)that wont come apart and is easy to recenter or self centering if the anchors haven't moved.

Bunker is fine but you have to be certain the soil wont liquefy as in earthquakes in Japan. In earlier years some of their buildings literally sank into the soil a good floor height.

Better to shake about on top of the ground...

For what its worth I worked on an earthquake shaker table for UCSD... as a draftsman. I have seen Exploded "I" beams The table was large enough to put a semi Truck on. or a small house.

pretty interesting stuff harmonics.... Jerico wasnt far off

deb

 

[Ravynscroft]

wow wooohoo kewl will have to go peek at it
how big was it and glad everyones fine

I kinda got to agrue with Alaska makes sense  that the egg making isnt gonna change because of sex unless it's maybe been genetically breed into it or something
..but it sounds like a kewl idea and might be worth exploring just out of curiosity without wanting to depend on it
haha thats kinda funny the bunker is scarier then anything else considering it's supose to be the safestest ect

Was messing with you, but technically chicks is baby chickens, like ducklings/ducks, goslings/geese, poults/turkeys, keets/guineas, etc...

 

[Beer can]

Hmm, I'm going to check that out. I have heard abnormally long shaped eggs are bad hatchers. I've been asking and wondering if there is a way temp or humidity etc to sway the sex of the hatch one way or the other. I'd like to hatch mostly cockerals if I could.

 

[Ravynscroft]

Hmm, I'm going to check that out. I have heard abnormally long shaped eggs are bad hatchers. I've been asking and wondering if there is a way temp or humidity etc to sway the sex of the hatch one way or the other. I'd like to hatch mostly cockerals if I could.

I think I saw something about the chicks that survive to hatch at higher or lower temps (can't remember which) tend to be more of one gender or the other, but dunno how true that is... never tested it...

But gender is determined at fertilization time... so once the egg is laid, it is already one or the other...

 

[Alaskan]

Yep, what Ravyn said about eggs and incubating

And my house is on good dirt... No sinking, but it could slide forward a bit if it really wanted to.

Amber, it was a 7.1 earthquake or close, depending on where you were at.

 

[Amberjem]

Yep, what Ravyn said about eggs and incubating

And my house is on good dirt... No sinking, but it could slide forward a bit if it really wanted to.

Amber, it was a 7.1 earthquake or close, depending on where you were at.

holy smokes that is a biggun we had a 4.9 a few weeks back... happened like at 10:30 I was double checking everywhere to get a confirmation on it.. at first I thought it was the washer rumbling thru the house then realized it wasnt...50 drifted off to sleep didnt think it was anything but having living in california before here pretty familiar with quakes so I wanted to confirm I wasnt imaging something finally found this neat quake tracker for the state or whatever...and our area had a buncha lil ones all over surprised me...how long did your go for did you have after shocks? I'm glad y'all are ok and everything

 

[Amberjem]

so I been debating over a new project either a triangular show cubbard or a small smoke house....does anyone else have a smoke house or smoke their own bacon or sausage?


if 50 goes boar hunting like he planned this spring sure would be handy

 

[Amberjem]