Getting the flock out of here - a diary of a crazy chicken man

[Lacy Blues]

Bourbon red and sweetgrass

 

[hillfloweranch]

@lacyblues do you like sweetgrass turkey's?

 

[Lacy Blues]

Oh yes! I think they are so very beautiful!

 

[ozexpat]

I am glad you guys have been busy here.

Mrs Oz left for The Phils last night. She should be arriving in the next couple of hours.

After a couple of days in Bacolod, she will head out to CocoBeach on on Friday.

On my next trip I am going to rebuild the incubators and modify the incubator room.

The mega-bator was originally meant to be just for a single mega hatch - I thought I would be complete then. (silly me lol)

I am going to convert to two smaller bators that will house around 300 eggs - based on a Sportsman design.I will trial an auto turner in one of them and have the other manually turning.

The dislay case hatcher will also get a rebuild. It too will become a cabinet style unit as it takes up a huge footprint in the bator house.

I am struggling with incandescant bulbs in the Phils. They just dont last with the electrical fluctuations. I am spending 12-20 bucks a month on the buggers.

I am going to try using 130 volt bulbs from the USA run through a 110v converter line conditioner. A case of 24 50W for the brooder lights is relatively cheap and even though they are probably made in the same place, quality standards are better for goods manafactured for the western world.

I will hardwire 110V in the bator house running off a 2000W converter. The white outlets will be 220V and the black outlets will be 110V.

 

[piglett]

I am glad you guys have been busy here.

Mrs Oz left for The Phils last night. She should be arriving in the next couple of hours.

After a couple of days in Bacolod, she will head out to CocoBeach on on Friday.

On my next trip I am going to rebuild the incubators and modify the incubator room.

The mega-bator was originally meant to be just for a single mega hatch - I thought I would be complete then. (silly me lol)

I am going to convert to two smaller bators that will house around 300 eggs - based on a Sportsman design.I will trial an auto turner in one of them and have the other manually turning.

The dislay case hatcher will also get a rebuild. It too will become a cabinet style unit as it takes up a huge footprint in the bator house.

I am struggling with incandescant bulbs in the Phils. They just dont last with the electrical fluctuations. I am spending 12-20 bucks a month on the buggers.

I am going to try using 130 volt bulbs from the USA run through a 110v converter line conditioner. A case of 24 50W for the brooder lights is relatively cheap and even though they are probably made in the same place, quality standards are better for goods manafactured for the western world.

I will hardwire 110V in the bator house running off a 2000W converter. The white outlets will be 220V and the black outlets will be 110V.

OZ i have also seen bright orange outlets in commercial buildings

just me 2 cents

no point in "cooking" 115vac power tools because someone screwed up

you could also convert all of the "american" plugs to a different style plug all together

maybe one with the two blades turned to each side so there are no "whoops" wrong outlet

just my quick thoughts


my wife thought i was a real nut for buying about 30 light bulbs at the 1st of the year

we have now went through 3/4 of the cheep things

with 3 Ohio brooders all running i go through bulbs fast


pig

 

[ozexpat]

OZ i have also seen bright orange outlets in commercial buildings

just me 2 cents

no point in "cooking" 115vac power tools because someone screwed up

you could also convert all of the "american" plugs to a different style plug all together

maybe one with the two blades turned to each side so there are no "whoops" wrong outlet

just my quick thoughts


my wife thought i was a real nut for buying about 30 light bulbs at the 1st of the year

we have now went through 3/4 of the cheep things

with 3 Ohio brooders all running i go through bulbs fast


pig

We have killed the odd appliance by plugging into 220V - in the past (mostly coffee makers) but now we have a good system. All 110V have a tag on the plug and a label as well as color coding. We also run orange extension cords for 110V and green for 220V.

Back before CFL i found that the GE 130V rated bulbs tended to last a lot longer in my house. Its worth a shot.

Mrs Oz' plane stopped by Hawaii to refuel - lots of passengers I guess. It had not happened to me in many flights. It caused a four hour delay in her arrival in Manila - she wil be there in two hours - and thus will miss her connecting flight. It looks like she will have a few hours in the lounge in Manila.

 

[scottcaddy]

Quote: Lowes and Home depot both sell several kinds of power plugs that can NOT be mixed up or let an opps happen. I agree with Pig on this.

Scott (who has had to deal with color blind co-workers before)

 

[ozexpat]

Lowes and Home depot  both sell several kinds of power plugs that can NOT be mixed up or let an opps happen. I agree with Pig on this.

Scott (who has had to deal with color blind co-workers before)

Lol

My Roommate is colorblind.

The Philippines is probably the only country outside the Americas that uses our plugs.

When I first went there I thought about issuing a different end on the 220v but being them in the Philippines is not possible.

I have very few items that are 220v so everyone assumes the default is 110v and things like TV and fridge run through voltage regulators designed for their native voltage.

Most things that are portable have power supplies that auto covert such phone chargers and laptops.

Orange outlets work the same as using black versus white. A label with the voltage on the outlet helps as a reminder.

It becomes second nature to check.

 

[piglett]

It becomes second nature to check.

that is till you get a new guy who is only there to help for a couple days

ZAP

 

[5 Acre Rooster]

Looks like you have some work in your future OZ with the incubator remodel task.

I had the GOOD/BAD/Ugly hit me last week. Well 1 bad/ugly. Something got into my duck pen and got my male. So I am so hoping my 23 rouen eggs hatch as well as those she laying that are still fertile get some babies from them.

Wife's horse showed up from breeder. Calf was born day before horse got home (Free beef!!!!) doing great after a slightly rocky start. Most eggs cooking are doing well (1st batch fertile test went awry but waiting a couple days yet).

Picked up new customers for eggs, but demand outweighs supply currently (May have that slightly rectified in a couple days) and also might have some new chicks also within a couple days from a semi local hobbiest breeder. By fall hopefully I can get supply=demand.

Meat project eggs are good development 12/13 (1 clear) and meats from hatchery doing good. As well as the dz chicks we picked up (Wife took pity on me and we went to feed store) when a layer deal fell threw. The last are replacement roos. Which I am proud of. Her words were exactly "Get what you want" and I did 2 things. Let each of our 3 little ones pic out a chick from a fry pan bin and then picked out 1/2 dz roos myself. I COULD have picked up 5 dozen pullets and got away with it that day. Thinking there is a couple RIR pullets in there but time will tell. Only about 10 days old right now.

And production is nearly 100% 41 pullets and I get 38-41 eggs/day. Even the CX pullets are pulling weight in the eggs department.

All in all the good outweighs the bad lately. Which reminds me. I got a monster egg other day, larger than a duck egg from a hen. It weighs 3.8 oz, my other large eggs weigh 2.2. I am tempted to crack it just to see how many yolks it is holding. Mistaken for a duck egg to start but wrong shell and duck layed in another spot that day. And its about 25% bigger than my duck's eggs are.