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

[daxigait]

Thought of you all today... we saw the local sled dog team coming back from a run when we were out riding. Benny and Ralphie would have loved that & made endless VWN jokes, eh.

I love sled dog racing. We used to watch the Iditarod every year. I own a couple of good Huskies as a kid I would work training there I had a little sled I got one year for Christmas and in the summertime I use my big wheel and hooked the dog up since I was training a wheel dog he was strong enough.

 

[daxigait]

Roof is done, inside is painted, windows cut—just HWC on windows & baseboards left, and I can move them in!

Great! You better hurry winter is here you know
Congratulations! What color is it?

 

[BantyChooks]

Great! You better hurry winter is here you know
Congratulations! What color is it?

Been really cutting corners... had to use a hairdryer on the shingles to keep them warm enough to put up; they were in the house but they froze wicked fast. Building in November is not a good idea.

 

[BantyChooks]

It's red, inside is a light brown.

 

[daxigait]

Been really cutting corners... had to use a hairdryer on the shingles to keep them warm enough to put up; they were in the house but they froze wicked fast. Building in November is not a good idea.

How do you keep your hands working?

 

[BantyChooks]

How do you keep your hands working?

Really warm gloves and frequent breaks.

 

[daxigait]

Been really cutting corners... had to use a hairdryer on the shingles to keep them warm enough to put up; they were in the house but they froze wicked fast. Building in November is not a good idea.

I built a shed for my dairy does on Thanksgiving day, and a second one on Friday. I am currently working on my stall in the extension I put on my barn last month.
The tin was used and needs painted to match, but at five dollars per thirteen foot sheet, it is fine for goats. I used the two left over sides from the free metal cages to make hay feeders on the back walls (blue panels) . I put hay doors in the back of each so I can fill without going into the pen or shed.

 

[BantyChooks]

I built a shed for my dairy does on Thanksgiving day, and a second one on Friday. I am currently working on my stall in the extension I put on my barn last month.
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Nice!!

 

[Faraday40]

I learned after moving here that the fifty plus degree shifts here like last winter on a Saturday when it was seventy in the morning, raining in the afternoon and icing and snowing by afternoon with at temperature of -5 by night fall that that is the worst. At least you could get used to the cold where I grew up.

WOW! .... & I thought our winters were rough. We get a few stretches of below zero temps that includes some very cold nights with -40'F or lower wind chills. However we certainly don't see 70'F temps in winter.

 

[Pensmaster]

I am glad you got some hens and that you are willing to be choosy even with them. I keep getting 50-75% Cockerels so it is hard to be choosy with such a limited number. I am glad I am not a serious breeder.

Still have the 7 Dark Cornish of that bunch one was a rooster. So exact opposite on that breed. The hens of that bunch vary in size quite a bit as well.