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

[duluthralphie]

No, he didn't. Nothing but the baby buck twins

Venison Veal!!!! Yummmmmmmm!

 

[Jessimom]

Day of set.. Nov third.
Projected Hatch Date.. Thanksgiving Day.

All mottled Java/3 Barred rock/Odd Ball X's from range.
I have a deposit put down on the entire yield by a close by neighbor. I didn't count the amount but I am holding onto a 20 spot until after Turkey Day.

I said the Hallow Hatch was the last until spring until my neighbor friend asked for a bunch of newbies..
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Good luck with the latest hatch and congrats on the sale on all the others!!

I really, really need to sell most of mine. I have 2 full grow up pens, but I haven't bothered to list them anywhere. I suppose I should work on that this week. They are all just starting to lay.

I have good news - they got all the Solar panels up on Friday and they actually got my house up and running - so we are running almost totally off the solar. The second house - the panels are up, but they ran out of daylight hours and they didn't get them hooked up until this morning. All panels ended up on my house. The other house had too much interference from the Eucalyptus trees surrounding the yard. We just had to dig a trench to run the cables. The city meters for both houses, are on my house, so it made it easy to set up both systems.

Even though all the work was FAR, far away from the chickens, we got 8 eggs out of 50 established hens..... They do NOT LIKE workmen making lots of noise. The youngsters that are laying - they are RIGHT next to the house, so closest to the noise, and their laying didn't slow down.

 

[hippiestink]

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Ugly soap vs. Pretty unmolded/cut soap. The darker soap will be a storm gray once totally solidified and cured.

And here's the unmolded and sliced soaps. Cleaned up the oval bars but the Dead Sea clay is meant to be a little rustic looking. Both are for home use anyway so I'm not too concerned about them lookin pretty.

 

[Sally Sunshine]

No laughing here! Pictures rarely do these things justice. If it gels it gels, I like it to gel to get a richer color.

If it helps, mine looks like yellow boogers right now. It'll cool and solidify into a creamy greenish tone.

ETA: trust me, when you cut it it'll look nicer! I have lots of soaps that look ugly when in the mold but look fine when unmolded and cut. Like these:

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you don't need parchment at the ends of your mold?
Thanks @hippiestink

I screwed up, I stupidly listened to someone online and added sea salt after the lye to the whole batter. ughhh now I have salt spots and for some reason my soap turned brown on the bottom!!! I swear this lesson is baffling me.

I NEED A CHEMISTRY CLASS STAT ughhh I am reading my stearic acid bag and did you know that the % of impurities has a great effect on calculating the lye - Soapcalc has Stearic acid at a SAP of 0.198 for its calculations, if I am making a shave soap or anything of the like this effects the KOH amt. I then looked at different stearics online and I swear they are all different! Stearic is made up of % of = Hexadecanoic, Octadecanoic & Tetradecanoic Acids, looking them up I find Octadecanoic is the stearic, the Hexadecanoic is Palmitic (also the highest percentage!) and the Tetradeanoic is Myristic acid! What all that means is when we are using soap calc to figure our lyes it can be off a significant amount for something so important in a product. So I am all confused and wondering if making ones own recipe is worth the time of thought! Or simply copy someone elses and make that! <bangs head> anyway, yeah I read way too much and think too much AND research way too much that I begin to question things that most don't.

Anyhoooo...... my titanium dioxide came so I have more to play around with later, for now I need to figure out why I keep getting dark batches. I assume because its gellin and the sugar? although last batch wasn't so dark. its CP ph is 9 after cut. I refuse to make plain soaps, I want to be an all Goats Milk soaper, but I must admit those beautiful fancy soaps people make are something to look at!! I must add, this bar of soap I just made doesn't look great at all, but WOW does it lather, hands were so soft after and mmmm it smells so good with dried sage and lemongrass!!

ps.... With the amount of tallow I like to use, I have to soap at 120-125 degrees or I have it solidify on the sides of the pot and then get mucky thick before the NaOH how on earth do you deal with 100% tallow! you must soap hot as well???? what stinks is the goats milk does best as a cold soaping 70 degrees or so and not gel. CP, I am really not into CP, but I cant seem to get HP fluid enough to work well and look half decent.

ok I am rambling, ill shut up now!!

UPS just dropped off my gear ties!!
Cant wait to try it! Now if I get a lighter batch I may be able to do a half decent swirl LOL!!!! These things would be awesome to hold chickens feet for butcher!! like big waterproof strong bread ties!!! so cool!

 

[BantyChooks]

Cant wait to try it! Now if I get a lighter batch I may be able to do a half decent swirl LOL!!!! These things would be awesome to hold chickens feet for butcher!! like big waterproof strong bread ties!!! so cool!

Send some my way, I'm trying to see if I can use large zip ties on backwards and it's certainly not the best solution to a problem I have ever come up with...

 

[Sally Sunshine]

Sally, nothing personal...BUT that is the ugliest color green I have every seen!!!


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I know its even uglier now, I am sorry but man its really good soap!!

 

[duluthralphie]

you don't need parchment at the ends of your mold?
Thanks @hippiestink

I screwed up, I stupidly listened to someone online and added sea salt after the lye to the whole batter. ughhh now I have salt spots and for some reason my soap turned brown on the bottom!!! I swear this lesson is baffling me.

I NEED A CHEMISTRY CLASS STAT ughhh I am reading my stearic acid bag and did you know that the % of impurities has a great effect on calculating the lye - Soapcalc has Stearic acid at a SAP of 0.198 for its calculations, if I am making a shave soap or anything of the like this effects the KOH amt. I then looked at different stearics online and I swear they are all different! Stearic is made up of % of = Hexadecanoic, Octadecanoic & Tetradecanoic Acids, looking them up I find Octadecanoic is the stearic, the Hexadecanoic is Palmitic (also the highest percentage!) and the Tetradeanoic is Myristic acid! What all that means is when we are using soap calc to figure our lyes it can be off a significant amount for something so important in a product. So I am all confused and wondering if making ones own recipe is worth the time of thought! Or simply copy someone elses and make that! <bangs head> anyway, yeah I read way too much and think too much AND research way too much that I begin to question things that most don't.

Anyhoooo...... my titanium dioxide came so I have more to play around with later, for now I need to figure out why I keep getting dark batches. I assume because its gellin and the sugar? although last batch wasn't so dark. its CP ph is 9 after cut. I refuse to make plain soaps, I want to be an all Goats Milk soaper, but I must admit those beautiful fancy soaps people make are something to look at!! I must add, this bar of soap I just made doesn't look great at all, but WOW does it lather, hands were so soft after and mmmm it smells so good with dried sage and lemongrass!!

ps.... With the amount of tallow I like to use, I have to soap at 120-125 degrees or I have it solidify on the sides of the pot and then get mucky thick before the NaOH how on earth do you deal with 100% tallow! you must soap hot as well???? what stinks is the goats milk does best as a cold soaping 70 degrees or so and not gel. CP, I am really not into CP, but I cant seem to get HP fluid enough to work well and look half decent.

ok I am rambling, ill shut up now!!

UPS just dropped off my gear ties!!
Cant wait to try it! Now if I get a lighter batch I may be able to do a half decent swirl LOL!!!! These things would be awesome to hold chickens feet for butcher!! like big waterproof strong bread ties!!! so cool!

Sorry to hear this Sally, Nothing I hate worse than having a brown bottom with salt spots!

 

[Sally Sunshine]

?!
Sally
It looks to me like something that a Goat will regurgitate ......it suppose to be soap?

ughhhhh

 

[Jessimom]

It kind of looks like a slice of moldy wonder bread.

 

[Sally Sunshine]

Good luck with the latest hatch and congrats on the sale on all the others!!

I really, really need to sell most of mine. I have 2 full grow up pens, but I haven't bothered to list them anywhere. I suppose I should work on that this week. They are all just starting to lay.

I have good news - they got all the Solar panels up on Friday and they actually got my house up and running - so we are running almost totally off the solar. The second house - the panels are up, but they ran out of daylight hours and they didn't get them hooked up until this morning. All panels ended up on my house. The other house had too much interference from the Eucalyptus trees surrounding the yard. We just had to dig a trench to run the cables. The city meters for both houses, are on my house, so it made it easy to set up both systems.

Even though all the work was FAR, far away from the chickens, we got 8 eggs out of 50 established hens..... They do NOT LIKE workmen making lots of noise. The youngsters that are laying - they are RIGHT next to the house, so closest to the noise, and their laying didn't slow down.

That's cool!! I wish I could afford them here!! they are on your roof?