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

[daxigait]

It is a wonderful thing to be gainfully employed. Many people can't say that today.

very true. I hope you are well. I still have your rooster. Though my young Rhode island Red rooster is managed to collect all the hens. I'm going to walk some more back up with him particularly while I'm gone for a few days.

 

[daxigait]

Fingers crossed the fires aren't bad this year! August is a crapshoot as far as visibility goes up there. We tried to go in August a couple of years ago after going to my cousin's wedding in Whitefish but the smoke was too bad.

I'm lucky--I'm about midway between Glacier and Yellowstone so I've been to both multiple times.

that sounds like a great place to be. I truly miss the mounts that's why I like to go there to backpack. hey I'm looking forward to hopefully being able to camp at hole in the wall and then go across to Kko, Fifty mnt., then granite Park and out The high line. of course with the stupidity of them canceling all our permits for the rest of the year and they're not doing any reservations and they revoked all the previous ones it's going to be a real crapshoot. absolutely no sense when you consider the fact that permits are always questionable because of bear activity or fires or whatever. They should have at least issued them so we have some security assuming things are open. the way it is now we have to travel halfway across the country and hope we can get a walk-in permit. thankfully we're going at the very end of August

 

[daxigait]

Yes it is but it’s also a scary thing. I meet many different people daily. No shaking hands and masks can only do so much. So far so good, but nerves are fried. Some pay attention to the new rules some not so much. Being out in it the first few weeks was definitely different. Felt guilty but at the same time reluctant to be working. Traffic has definitely picked up even before things were “re opened” it’s a strange feeling when you could walk across a freeway blindfolded any time of the day.

I wouldn't worry as much. it is not nearly as contagious as they first thought or feared and if you're not over the age of 70 or in a nursing home or have some massive pre-existing condition odds are you're fine. they're finding with the serology test now that it's much more widespread and lots less lethal outside of nursing homes or long-term care facilities. besides if it was as bad as they feared there should have been an epidemic among truck drivers and there isn't. we are truly all over interacting with all kinds of people and most of us don't wear masks or anything else. we just wash our hands and work. they just freaked people out by listing the deaths. If they listed how many people died of flu or pneumonia in years past like in 2018. the numbers are going to prove out that it is more widespread and less lethal than several other coronaviruses.

 

[daxigait]

Shalom Dax
You can use them as a potatoes replacement!
Soup
Puree
Backed
In a stew
Base for cold salad
You can pickle it
Ect.
but you take in consideration that it is one of the most mmm......mmmmmmm " gas manufacturing " vegetables around (nothing that 2 boils with water change in between will not solve)

Shalom Dax
You can use them as a potatoes replacement!
Soup
Puree
Backed
In a stew
Base for cold salad
You can pickle it
Ect.
but you take in consideration that it is one of the most mmm......mmmmmmm " gas manufacturing " vegetables around (nothing that 2 boils with water change in between will not solve)

lol so what's your favorite way? or do you avoid it for the above reasons?

 

[kwhites634]

I wouldn't worry as much. it is not nearly as contagious as they first thought or feared and if you're not over the age of 70 or in a nursing home or have some massive pre-existing condition odds are you're fine. they're finding with the serology test now that it's much more widespread and lots less lethal outside of nursing homes or long-term care facilities. besides if it was as bad as they feared there should have been an epidemic among truck drivers and there isn't. we are truly all over interacting with all kinds of people and most of us don't wear masks or anything else. we just wash our hands and work. they just freaked people out by listing the deaths. If they listed how many people died of flu or pneumonia in years past like in 2018. the numbers are going to prove out that it is more widespread and less lethal than several other coronaviruses.

I'm well over the age of 70, have a pacemaker, and am fighting cancer.
Did you notice where I put that new shovel?

 

[BantyChooks]

I'm well over the age of 70, have a pacemaker, and am fighting cancer.
Did you notice where I put that new shovel?

Hi, whites.

 

[kwhites634]

Hi, whites.

 

[daxigait]

I'm well over the age of 70, have a pacemaker, and am fighting cancer.
Did you notice where I put that new shovel?

I am glad you are well. but you don't live in an assisted living facility and they seem to have had terrible trouble, but then a lot of them especially New York weren't helped by the fact that they were forced by the governor to take covid-19 positive people. that was wrong.
I assume you still get out and about even around your place. that helps, so will it getting warmer and sunnier. well, there was some guy over the age of a hundred that had it and did fine. it is really a matter of the individual. besides your overall death rate is less than half a percent so more people die of heart attacks and car accidents dimension of 647000 people that died of a heart attack last year have you beaten that one so far

 

[kwhites634]

I am glad you are well. but you don't live in an assisted living facility and they seem to have had terrible trouble, but then a lot of them especially New York weren't helped by the fact that they were forced by the governor to take covid-19 positive people. that was wrong.
I assume you still get out and about even around your place. that helps, so will it getting warmer and sunnier. well, there was some guy over the age of a hundred that had it and did fine. it is really a matter of the individual. besides your overall death rate is less than half a percent so more people die of heart attacks and car accidents dimension of 647000 people that died of a heart attack last year have you beaten that one so far

About the only changes that Covid-19 has brought to my routine is that I don't fish as much as normal, and I pick up my Lowe's orders outside. Only time I've had to wear a mask was when I had to go into the cancer treatment center for a blood draw,

I probably wouldn't be fishing quite as much even without the virus; weather hasn't really been all that condusive to Crappie fishing.

I normally order my stuff online from Lowe's & wait for an email telling me it's ready for pick-up, then go to Customer Service & have them bring it out to the pick-up area at the far end of the building. These days I just call Customer Service with the Order# & they eventually bring it out to the same place. No big deal.

Biggest complaint I have is the inability to get a haircut. DW told me yesterday that I'm getting "poofy"

 

[Razadia]

Dad is excited. After all the problems I had with Sunshine and the incubator 11 chicks hatched (not including the one that died overnight last night or the one that's alive but still hasn't pipped). One has a minor case of wry neck that's slowly working itself out. No curled toes, which is amazing all things considered. I'm think about just culling that final unhatched egg. The chick is too big to hatch on its own and it hasn't pipped the air cell yet. I don't have high hopes for it. I need to get the bator cleaned out for more eggs ( the neighbors' chickens are still laying in my yard).