EDUCATIONAL INCUBATION & HATCHING CHAT THREAD, w/ Sally Sunshine Shipped Eggs

[Pensmaster]

Why?
No worries. I'll die at work around 57 or so like everyone else in my family.

All the men in my friends family have died at 50. He's made it to 60

 

[BullChick]

Coz I generally like being asleep before 5AM.

57? Whoof, that's young...

I can sleep after coffee.
Idk. It's just the way it is. My mother is somehow 69. She will be dead soon. Almost died a week or two before Brian last April.

 

[Fire Ant Farm]

So much for trying to sleep - the surprise big storm system that took out @kajira 's power just hit here a few minutes ago - holy chit, it's like the friggin' world is ending out there. And I just got a tornado warning on my phone, telling me to take shelter now. Somehow I think it was the wrong day to take that protective wind guard off of the naked neck coop - they are basically roosting in the open air part (like always) and getting pelted right now. At least it's 71F (which is bizarre, and explains the weird weather).

No wonder I've had a migraine all day with weather like this. I heard something metal and loud. I don't even want to know what this is doing to my roof... I am trying not to think about my chickens, since there's really nothing I can do about it.

 

[Pensmaster]

So much for trying to sleep - the surprise big storm system that took out @kajira
's power just hit here a few minutes ago - holy chit, it's like the friggin' world is ending out there. And I just got a tornado warning on my phone, telling me to take shelter now. Somehow I think it was the wrong day to take that protective wind guard off of the naked neck coop - they are basically roosting in the open air part (like always) and getting pelted right now. At least it's 71F (which is bizarre, and explains the weird weather). 

No wonder I've had a migraine all day with weather like this. I heard something metal and loud. I don't even want to know what this is doing to my roof... I am trying not to think about my chickens, since there's really nothing I can do about it.   

Wow. Hang in there. Praying that it will leave you and chickens intact. And the roof.

 

[Pensmaster]

Off to bed.

 

[Fire Ant Farm]

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Thanks (why does the rain have to come in these gajillion-inches-per-hour spasms, and then not for months?!

). Power flickered so I went over with the mini-generator to plug in the heating pads for the littler chicks into it and to check on them (make sure roof wasn't leaking into the brooders or something). Naked Necks, from the best I could see, are huddled and soaked on their perches. (One of these days maybe they'll learn to sleep indoors???) Roof is indeed trying to come apart. I'm going back to bed - it'll all be there for me to clean up or deal with in the morning...

(BTW - top tip - you know those little Rubbermaid plastic stepping stools? Turned upside down they do a great job when placed under a leak in the ceiling. Hey, I can pretend I have an indoor water feature in my den...)


That being said, I think the worst has passed. I hope I can get back to sleep.

- Ant Farm

 

[Fire Ant Farm]

@Pensmaster - when you get a chance, PM me (or post here) which roaster you have and why you picked it? (I'm thinking of trying to grow coffee trees in pots - thought it would be fun...)

 

[Akrnaf2]

Off to bed.

Off=עוף= chicken in Hebrew

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That is the meaning of your post in my eyes!

 

[NaJoBeLe]

37 out of 38 just went into lockdown.

That's great. What kind again?

Mixes.

 

[BullChick]

GOOD MORNING! IT'S MONDAY!