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

[Wickedchicken6]

Good morning everyone!

Didn't get to bed when I thought...I'm finished looking up grain carts for right now. Ugh.

 

[Akrnaf2]

Yah she's getting around a bit, cute as a button.
I love hatching eggs!! This is my first hatch and

It isn't love my freind! It is an addiction!

 

[Wickedchicken6]

It is a woven plastic fence with steel conductors in it..

Looks like poultry or hog netting but plastic..

I was meaning which brand? I had to ask because we had such different experiences installing netting yesterday. Is it a premier brand, the lower cost with the lighter poles? Or is it like the following pic...I don't even see this particular netting on premier's site but it's from Premier because it's the one feed store stocked it and it was on sale.

It's the low conductive type wires (cheapest) ...but we were only getting three packaged lengths of it and we figured it would be sufficient for this. It's snapping 5. If I was fencing a larger area...I'd go with the white poly conductive wire from Premier or the alternate strand from the other company (can't remember at the moment) I researched this to death last year.

We just put this up today. I thought it was much easier than I expected and I really love it. If my back wasn't hooped I could do it myself. DH started putting it in and it was sagging so I sent him to hold the fence and I put the posts in. I found using my foot on the bottom spike to stretch out the fence made the world of difference. The ground is terribly uneven so I added a white post in the first pic to pick up the wire so it didn't touch on the ground. The added post is the 2nd post to the left of the fencer. Yep, you all can see it now, right?

I put two corner stays, ones showing on the bottom pic, far left. The other is at the far end from where I took this pic.

I used the long ties that were around the roll to keep it tied and one of our step in posts. I also used the long ties to tie the joins in the two fences. My only regret was not using all three rolls of netting. We were on a time crunch to combine. The third will get added in soon. If I don't get the fox.

 

[mlm Mike]

It's taken a year and a half for me to start to calm down over the whole business.

You sure you've calmed down?

Not bright eyed and bushy tailed but yup! 8 babies. Peeping beautiful lol
Good morning wait

Congratulations! Morning

Good morning everyone!

Didn't get to bed when I thought...I'm finished looking up grain carts for right now. Ugh.

Good morning.

 

[mlm Mike]

Good morning everyone!

 

[Wickedchicken6]

Good morning Mike!

 

[mlm Mike]

Good morning Mike!

You ever sleep?

 

[Wickedchicken6]

You ever sleep?

That would indicate I possess logic and reason, which we both know I do not have.

Seriously though...I just wanted to beat everyone up for once. And I may have been searching for the brand/type of grain cart we have. The gearbox is toast and the shop can't find the parts for it. Parts are preferred over a machined job. I tried.

 

[BantyChooks]

You sure you've calmed down?

Yes. Do you remember my last hatch? I got 6--7 hours of sleep on every day in lockdown, and I was just excited, not panicked and over thinking every bit. Even when I assisted I was much more confident in what I was doing.

 

[mlm Mike]

That would indicate I possess logic and reason, which we both know I do not have.

Seriously though...I just wanted to beat everyone up for once. And I may have been searching for the brand/type of grain cart we have. The gearbox is toast and the shop can't find the parts for it. Parts are preferred over a machined job. I tried.

Machined parts sound expensive.

Yes. Do you remember my last hatch? I got 6--7 hours of sleep on every day in lockdown, and I was just excited, not panicked and over thinking every bit. Even when I assisted I was much more confident in what I was doing.

Ok, you have improved, excitement is much better than panic.