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

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Farmer Connie said:
I guy just responded to our classified ad for our chickens. We have them listed for $10 each for the 4 month old ones and we have around 60 of them. He asked if he bought all 60 could we take $3 each?
No wonder DH gets huffy/puffy.
60 birds eat $25+ a week (min). /16 weeks X $25= $400.
60 birds X $3 = $90
Resulting in the loss of $310.
Not including time and effort, health care, heat lamps.
Just like Hub says.. we have 6 freezers and 4 BBQ grills.
The proceeds from those sales help with the other age birds as well. There are 30 under lamps right now and about 50 in the barn too. $ breeding houses that need feed for around 30 birds. My big egg house has 70+ birds eating up feed.
$3 dollars a bird is an insult. AND to say "you have my number if you change your mind", just sweetens the deal..
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Farmer Connie said:
what is leaking??
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My brains.
 
MotorcycleChick said:
Will someone please tell me how I can find the main water shut off to the house? It's city water.
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Shaw just jogged my memory. Bear in mind, I've only encountered this once, but here goes:
Somewhere, probably out near the road, there should be a cap, similar to a manhole cover only a lot smaller around. It should be at or slightly below the surface (if dirt & grass have mostly covered it). Removal of that cap should give you access to the plumbing below, which contains the main shutoff. I believe, however, that a specialized tool is needed to adjust the main. You would probably need a permit, if you are allowed to do anything to it at all. Utility companies normally take a dim view of anyone other than their own people messing with their stuff.

You trying to fix your kitchen sink? You shouldn't need to shut off the main; there should be a shutoff valve under the sink.
 
kwhites634 said:
Shaw just jogged my memory. Bear in mind, I've only encountered this once, but here goes:
Somewhere, probably out near the road, there should be a cap, similar to a manhole cover only a lot smaller around. It should be at or slightly below the surface (if dirt & grass have mostly covered it). Removal of that cap should give you access to the plumbing below, which contains the main shutoff. I believe, however, that a specialized tool is needed to adjust the main. You would probably need a permit, if you are allowed to do anything to it at all. Utility companies normally take a dim view of anyone other than their own people messing with their stuff.

You trying to fix your kitchen sink? You shouldn't need to shut off the main; there should be a shutoff valve under the sink.
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Or a valve somewhere where the pipe comes in from the road. In the basement or crawl space...Will look like a hose shut off...
 
duluthralphie said:
Or a valve somewhere where the pipe comes in from the road. In the basement or crawl space...Will look like a hose shut off...
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I've never lived in a house that has a main shut off. Always had to get down in the man hole thingy with a special tool called a thingamaBobby. And no. . the city doesn't like us folks having those thing a ma Bobby dealy jigs. They want you to call them instead so your whole house can flood before they get there.
 

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