It looks that way, at this point, because it has veered back east. Yesterday’s model had the eye passing right over my house and Jim Cantore was spotted in the area. I was preparing to house a goat family in my bathroom.
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It looks that way, at this point, because it has veered back east. Yesterday’s model had the eye passing right over my house and Jim Cantore was spotted in the area. I was preparing to house a goat family in my bathroom.
Wow.It looks that way, at this point, because it has veered back east. Yesterday’s model had the eye passing right over my house and Jim Cantore was spotted in the area. I was preparing to house a goat family in my bathroom.
Wow.
New Orleans was already flooding a few days ago. They really don’t need the rain. We’re on the Texas side of the state, and our project impact has dropped to 3”. I have chicken customers near Baton Rouge, their projected rainfall is 22”.
We have family in New Orleans or near it. Some of them went to Houston to visit before they new storm was coming. The last time they were in California their street flooded but didn’t get into house.
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Excuse the mess, it was a hectic week and we were short staffed. My kids playing with my kids. 
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Liquid CMPK like I said about livestock products, many meds are the same ingredients different names, like our generics. TSC never has any in stock here so I have to buy the cmpk gel from animal health, but I asked them to look into a liquid and carry it, per my vet.
what I do? Hi Dax, your home is so cute!
Hi kat! Kat have you been on jeffers lately? go into their electrolyte health section, they have a bunch of good products now and can be used for many critters!
You did good, more than most would do and with over 50 kids in camp and your ringleader! At least you were tough enough to handle tubing etc and not pay a vet a small fortune, the items you bought in the long run can be reused if needed and are certainly much much less than a vet charge! I will remind you to please send out testing, and from now on, skip the auction for goats unless your going to eat them and purchase from a tested clean free herd! or Consult with Mike, Me or Dax first! In the end cheaper isnt always better esp animals!
oh no! I really dislike those incubators and thermostats, @generaldsherman Banty actually used a lego on the knob for the thermostat so you can fine tune it, seems like just a bit is huge on them! Also you can calibrate thermos google that if you havent, also try heat sinks in it!! First off, flat pebbles,marbles anything, just sterilize with a bit of bleach water and rinse well first, covering the bottom of the bator will help keep temps more regulated, the area bator is located is key as well. another lady uses easter eggs along with pebbles in the turner area she fills them with sand or something to keep heat in. the fuller the bator the better, in my coolerbators I aways use mason jars with water as heat sinks. Sorry so late to the game here, but perhaps can help later on!!Anybody have any experience with Little Giant incubators with digital thermostats? My mother bought one for her classroom (without consulting me as to whether she should buy it or not). I'm running tests on it using a thermometer I trust, and it's weird as heck. One end runs 1-2 degrees cold, one runs 1-2 degrees hot, unless my thermometer is freaking out of course. I'll have to bring a second thermometer to test with it to double-check.
GOOD LUCK!! whatcha hatchin?
BENNY! I am so surprised at how few people I see in your images!!! My thoughts on that place is people out the butt all over!!
OMG 5!!!!
OMG she starts school allready? wow!! How is the soaping Hippiestink?
This hatching year has been interesting, to say the least. Average hatch rates plummeted from the 97% of last year to barely 33%. Out of the chicks that did hatch, fatality rates were high; losing chicks never happens, so this is most unusual.
I've gone over everything I know dozens of times in search of a solution. I calibrated thermometers, hygrometers, checked for hot and cold spots (I did find a few, and corrected them by monkeying with bulb wattage,) sanitized the incubator several times, and evaluated breeder health and nutrition. Most of the embryos I've been losing have been at or just before lockdown. No evidence of infection, air cells are normal, no malformations, nothing. I have seen more malpositions than usual, but far from all of the fatalities showed that. I changed my turning methods three times over the summer in an effort to combat that. Eggs I set aren't old, either. The closest thing to an idea I have come up with is genetic issues causing the chick deaths in the line of Chanteclers I set the most eggs from. That doesn't explain the lockdown deaths in mutts and quail, though.I'm stumped. Their feed is the same as always, they free range, they have clean water, and they appear healthy. Actually, the Chanteclers have been getting a quality all-flock feed, not layer like the other birds get. For some batches I used a lockdown incubator (the LG) and for some I didn't. Hatch rates were the same across the two options.
I built a new mini incubator over the weekend last month. I plan to do very small scale hatches in it over the winter so I can keep tinkering. I'm going to do a re-build of the main incubator as well, and maybe replace the thermometers just in case. It's due for a re-build anyway. I'm tired of running out of space to set eggs, and the warped floor on this one drives me nuts. Er, more nuts.
Sweets, have you wormed them lately, and can I recommend this below from jeffers? are you sure its not this time of year? its been wet humid gross, ps.... this may really help you its only 2.99 too https://www.jefferspet.com/products...pb0fhpS1zcCmv4FZq1uDemiuspjU2keRoCVUMQAvD_BwE
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