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

[daxigait]

I have built one of those 5 gallon buckets with the street elbows in it I was going to try. I just haven't got the caulking done yet.

 

[kwhites634]

Remember you saying that, but you have to be home I guess to do that, and it's cold to do that a lot.

Retirement allows for a lot of things that working for a living doesn't. I'm finally able to live by the WFALS principal...Working For A Living Sucks.

 

[kwhites634]

I have built one of those 5 gallon buckets with the street elbows in it I was going to try. I just haven't got the caulking done yet.

I didn't caulk or glue the joints on mine. I forgot to 'til I'd already put it into service, then left it that way so I could take it apart every so often for a good cleaning.

 

[daxigait]

Retirement allows for a lot of things that working for a living doesn't. I'm finally able to live by the WFALS principal...Working For A Living Sucks.

I doubt I will ever be able to retire. I do wish we could live by the principal somebody out of the kid isn't you I would be born old and work for 40 years and then retire when you were young enough to enjoy it and then just get young enough you don't know anything then then that's I do wish we could live by the principal somebody out of the kid isn't you I would be born old and work for 40 years and then retire when you were young enough to enjoy it and then just get young enough you don't know anything then then that's it.

 

[daxigait]

School would have been more fun that way too.

 

[Lazy Farmer]

Sorry

They are just plants.. lol. My biggest concerns were for soaking wet livestock in 20° weather. Florida creatures are not accustomed to ice conditions. Pigs burrowed into the last of my feed hay. I have a sick doe with a doggie sweater in a 4X4 turkey house.. chickens are docile. The feathers never looked so thick and luxurious.
We have been busier than normal.. I realize the north has this weather aall the time. But here we aren't prepared for such. We just take living in the warmth for granted.
It is like Hurricane season-ish in the stores. Tons of folks are clearing off all the shelves. Instead of bottled water and batteries, it's heaters and winter Wardrobe. Funny Floridian population...lol.
We haven't used our electric heat much in 8 years. The thermostat is set at 55°. It has been kicking on all night. Shut off during the days. There is no such thing as too much firewood.
Not concerned about the plants. We can grow more. Thx Dax.. no biggie.

 

[daxigait]

They are just plants.. lol. My biggest concerns were for soaking wet livestock in 20° weather. Florida creatures are not accustomed to ice conditions. Pigs burrowed into the last of my feed hay. I have a sick doe with a doggie sweater in a 4X4 turkey house.. chickens are docile. The feathers never looked so thick and luxurious.
We have been busier than normal.. I realize the north has this weather aall the time. But here we aren't prepared for such. We just take living in the warmth for granted.
It is like Hurricane season-ish in the stores. Tons of folks are clearing off all the shelves. Instead of bottled water and batteries, it's heaters and winter Wardrobe. Funny Floridian population...lol.
We haven't used our electric heat much in 8 years. The thermostat is set at 55°. It has been kicking on all night. Shut off during the days. There is no such thing as too much firewood.
Not concerned about the plants. We can grow more. Thx Dax.. no biggie.

I commiserate on the rain and then freezing temperatures that is the biggest worry and fear here with our animals because we get those fluctuations and then it gets really cold and they struggle to deal with it. It has to be much worse there because yours don't have any winter coat at all. What is up with your doe?

 

[Lazy Farmer]

I commiserate on the rain and then freezing temperatures that is the biggest worry and fear here with our animals because we get those fluctuations and then it gets really cold and I can't deal with it. It has to be much worse there because yours don't have any winter coat at all. What is up with your doe?

We think a bacterial infection on top of malnutrition from being forced away from hay/feed by the pecking order. She is on a course of penicillin and has been treated for worms and coccidia. Her ears are badly chewed up by some of the bullies. We have had our share of goat problems lately.
Goats can be as mean to each other as chickens. If more.

 

[daxigait]

We think a bacterial infection on top of malnutrition from being forced away from hay/feed by the pecking order. She is on a course of penicillin and has been treated for worms and coccidia. Her ears are badly chewed up by some of the bullies. We have had our share of goat problems lately.
Goats can be as mean to each other as chickens. If more.

They can be very mean. They also tend to sometimes leave one as an outcast oddly. I have a little Boer doe that was orphaned, and she just doesn't seem to be able to be buddies with anybody. None of the older does are going to befriend her, and the young ones stay close to thier dams. The ones in the middle stage are thier own click.
It is a shame because she is very sweet.

 

[daxigait]

@Farmer Connie I hope she gets better. Goats can be so delicate.