FogHorn Leghorn III
In the Brooder
- May 7, 2023
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I’m in Texas and extreme weather has us by the huevos.
Last night, my wireless thermometer reader sat at a comfortable 100 all day.
A thunderstorm brought flash flooding, lighting, hail, and power outages. (Being my second time at this rodeo.) I made sure to keep the DIY incubator insulated in a closet of a centralized room, and if the power went out I’d still have time to MacGyver a solution.
1:08am lights go out.
Temperature check: 100. First 10 minutes.
then 99. So glad I can depend on layered insulation. 10 more minutes. It’s at 97.
Then I realize that I had left the door open.
In a panic I need to stabilize the temperature.Instinctively I went to the stove heated water in a put and put it under the incubator. The temp was at 98 and holding. I had don’t it woo
I get a torch and try to hot air balloon the sh*t (excuse my French,) out of the closet, which by the way doesn’t even have a door I draped a thick quilt over the opening. Doing so, I look down at the torch and see the Carbon-monoxide poisoning warning
️ I need to increase the amount of hot water.
Two gallon regular sized pots were toooooo hot the temp went to 104°
Mainly due to the fact that I wrapped my jacket with goose feather
around the box and that really kept them warm so I covered everything with a towel and the then left ignorantly. (ignoring+ly aware of the humidity.)
I can only fix one problem at a time ya know!
Post your magyver moves when you acted like a diligent mother hen to protect your clutch!
Last night, my wireless thermometer reader sat at a comfortable 100 all day.
A thunderstorm brought flash flooding, lighting, hail, and power outages. (Being my second time at this rodeo.) I made sure to keep the DIY incubator insulated in a closet of a centralized room, and if the power went out I’d still have time to MacGyver a solution.
1:08am lights go out.
Temperature check: 100. First 10 minutes.
then 99. So glad I can depend on layered insulation. 10 more minutes. It’s at 97.Then I realize that I had left the door open.
In a panic I need to stabilize the temperature.Instinctively I went to the stove heated water in a put and put it under the incubator. The temp was at 98 and holding. I had don’t it woo
I get a torch and try to hot air balloon the sh*t (excuse my French,) out of the closet, which by the way doesn’t even have a door I draped a thick quilt over the opening. Doing so, I look down at the torch and see the Carbon-monoxide poisoning warning
️ I need to increase the amount of hot water. Two gallon regular sized pots were toooooo hot the temp went to 104°
Mainly due to the fact that I wrapped my jacket with goose feather
around the box and that really kept them warm so I covered everything with a towel and the then left ignorantly. (ignoring+ly aware of the humidity.) I can only fix one problem at a time ya know!
Post your magyver moves when you acted like a diligent mother hen to protect your clutch!
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