Dixie Chicks

[vehve]

Beer, that sucks. We're still below freezing on clear nights, but daytime temps have been 40-50 already, and there's just a few frozen spots in the shadows left.

I just attached the last of the plastic piping, now all I need to do is level the spot it'll rest on a bit, and then we can attach the clear plastic to the frame. I'm using leftover construction plastic for the ends, and for the top I bought actual greenhouse plastic. I can't see much of a difference in the two though. I guess we'll see in a couple of years, if this doesn't blow away before then. But the greenhouse plastic was a bit costly, so I didn't want to spend any more than I absolutely had to on it. I only got three meters (6.5m wide) which already set me back 30 euros.

 

[perchie.girl]

Crappy deal beer can

Reno pic, future bathroom where there was once a roof and attic.

OH you ARE nesting big time.....

 

[Alaskan]

Love the updates.

 

[BriardChickens]

Nicely done @canuckbuck! Wins in the ckc as a breeder/owner handler seem like a much bigger deal

As for me: I am devying the odds right now... After my olive egger pullet died 3 weeks ago I decided to put her first eggs (yeah she started to lay 2 weeks before her death) into the incubator. So oldest eggs were refrigerated for 10 days, pullet eggs, had 1 power outage in the first few days (8 hours long) and a 4 hour power outage last week. Also because my house stays quite cool so had to cover the incubator with a towel. Out of sight out of mind so I forgot to turn the eggs most days... (My brain has been off for a few weeks).
Dark thick shells prevented me from candling too...
I currently have 8/10 eggs pipped.

Eggs are tougher then we think, I really thought I might only get 2 or 3 chicks. Haha

 

[hennible]

Very cool Briard

 

[vehve]

BC, not half bad. I was super crappy at turning the eggs we had cooking, and some of them were ten days old too. We only got like a 50% hatch rate though. But the incubator was running way too dry, since I kept forgetting to fill the well, and like I said, they only got turned twice a day most days. You can get away with quite neglectful incubating. But, I still do prefer the fully automated broody mama route.

Sam, the American insulation is really weird, looks like house meat (I saw a pic of a person installing the stuff, with a caption saying something like "Here, James is harvesting House meat"). Totally wrong color. Here it's always yellow.

 

[Alaskan]

V, what do fins use for insulation? Mushrooms? Reindeer hides? Lichen?

 

[BriardChickens]

Well, hatch is still happening, we'll see how many make it out. One appears to be zipping. Living on the west coast I did not add any water. "Dry incubating". I did add water last night for the hatch.

 

[vehve]

Al,


Although in really old houses you'll find newspaper and such, and even older ones, moss has been used at some point. A friend of mine's family owns this big old mansion that's a couple hundred years old, it had suffered some pretty bad neglect and has gone through renovations. But there, most of the insulation used was moss. Among other things, one of the second floor rooms had filled with two feet of water, and miraculously it was being contained in there. But it had completely destroyed the floor between the floors etc.

 

[vehve]

Actually, our attic looks a bit like this:


It's the stuff you blow in there instead of using sheets.

I should actually go fluff it up a bit at some point and check that our water pipes are still properly covered.