Hatching Eggs / Paypal CHAT Thread

[Hollowoakfarm]

Hmmmmm....have to figure a way to calculate electric usage. That might be difficult. Milage I hadn't thought of; thank you. I'd only be keeping LF chickens and some few turkeys. Concentration on the chickens. Layers, dual purpose, show, several breeds, but haven't narrowed down which yet. That's part of this years work, and why I'm in the swap forum. (Plus, BHep enabled me into here.). Thanks COF!

Look at IRS regs on electric usage.  If you don't have meters to your barns, etc. or you brood in the house you can use a percentage basis for utilities.  You can also do percentage (admittedly probably low) on internet cost, phone cost, etc. if used for business purposes.  If you advertise in newspaper that can be claimed.  Best tip is if town is a little ways away, always make sure that you pick up something related to the business such as feed, meds, etc. and claim the mileage in.  That way the trip to town to do chores just became a true deduction for IRS purposes.  We live 35 miles from large town, and a friend owns his own repair shop.  Anytime he & his wife go into town for dates, groceries, etc. he always picks up parts for his repair business which means the trip is business mileage. 

Depreciation for the various types of barns and fencing, tractors etc. is best handled by a farm professional or someone with a very reliable depreciation schedule as it can get quite tricky especially as if anything is sold later it becomes a gain.  Animals that are raised on the farm are a true sale.  Purchased breeder animals are depreciable over a different time frame. 

I appreciate the info. I'll add it to the list! And I can't think of any reason to go "to town" without it involving purchases for the livestock. We'll also have to sort out "home use" livestock versus business stock. Lots of things to consider.

 

[RedBrush Farm]

setting our first round of Ancona eggs for 2013 for a fertility test

Came home and was trying to get through 89 post to catch up. Read this too fast and though it said you were setting your first round of ANACONDA eggs...

Took a double take and realized you had not lost your mind!! (Well I guess there would be a market for them somewhere!

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[CelticOaksFarm]

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they are having hunts for them here in FL, open season and paying for killed snakes. Thems giant constrictors are a real problem

 

[RedBrush Farm]

they are having hunts for them here in FL, open season and paying for killed snakes. Thems giant constrictors are a real problem

They pay you to hunt snakes in Florida but arrest us in Missouri if we kill one!?! Go figure...... Still glad you are not raising them on purpose!!

 

[WVstruttin]

3 different sets of jubilee orps on RBA, god I wish I wasn"t poor

 

[madamwlf]

Madam, after listening to NPR this morning and finding out the football team is named after the Edger Allen Poe Raven, I have to ask...
which one is your farm named after?
Or is it just a happy coincidence?

Madam, after listening to NPR this morning and finding out the football team is named after the Edger Allen Poe Raven, I have to ask...
which one is your farm named after?
Or is it just a happy coincidence?

No coincidence at all. I love the Ravens and Edger Allen Poe. In his poem titled "The Raven," the Raven states "Nevermore."



Once upon a midnight dreary, while I pondered weak and weary,
Over many a quaint and curious volume of forgotten lore,
While I nodded, nearly napping, suddenly there came a tapping,
As of some one gently rapping, rapping at my chamber door.
`'Tis some visitor,' I muttered, `tapping at my chamber door -
Only this, and nothing more.'

Ah, distinctly I remember it was in the bleak December,
And each separate dying ember wrought its ghost upon the floor.
Eagerly I wished the morrow; - vainly I had sought to borrow
From my books surcease of sorrow - sorrow for the lost Lenore -
For the rare and radiant maiden whom the angels named Lenore -
Nameless here for evermore.

And the silken sad uncertain rustling of each purple curtain
Thrilled me - filled me with fantastic terrors never felt before;
So that now, to still the beating of my heart, I stood repeating
`'Tis some visitor entreating entrance at my chamber door -
Some late visitor entreating entrance at my chamber door; -
This it is, and nothing more,'

Presently my soul grew stronger; hesitating then no longer,
`Sir,' said I, `or Madam, truly your forgiveness I implore;
But the fact is I was napping, and so gently you came rapping,
And so faintly you came tapping, tapping at my chamber door,
That I scarce was sure I heard you' - here I opened wide the door; -
Darkness there, and nothing more.

Deep into that darkness peering, long I stood there wondering, fearing,
Doubting, dreaming dreams no mortal ever dared to dream before;
But the silence was unbroken, and the darkness gave no token,
And the only word there spoken was the whispered word, `Lenore!'
This I whispered, and an echo murmured back the word, `Lenore!'
Merely this and nothing more.

Back into the chamber turning, all my soul within me burning,
Soon again I heard a tapping somewhat louder than before.
`Surely,' said I, `surely that is something at my window lattice;
Let me see then, what thereat is, and this mystery explore -
Let my heart be still a moment and this mystery explore; -
'Tis the wind and nothing more!'

Open here I flung the shutter, when, with many a flirt and flutter,
In there stepped a stately raven of the saintly days of yore.
Not the least obeisance made he; not a minute stopped or stayed he;
But, with mien of lord or lady, perched above my chamber door -
Perched upon a bust of Pallas just above my chamber door -
Perched, and sat, and nothing more.

Then this ebony bird beguiling my sad fancy into smiling,
By the grave and stern decorum of the countenance it wore,
`Though thy crest be shorn and shaven, thou,' I said, `art sure no craven.
Ghastly grim and ancient raven wandering from the nightly shore -
Tell me what thy lordly name is on the Night's Plutonian shore!'
Quoth the raven, `Nevermore.'

Much I marvelled this ungainly fowl to hear discourse so plainly,
Though its answer little meaning - little relevancy bore;
For we cannot help agreeing that no living human being
Ever yet was blessed with seeing bird above his chamber door -
Bird or beast above the sculptured bust above his chamber door,
With such name as `Nevermore.'

But the raven, sitting lonely on the placid bust, spoke only,
That one word, as if his soul in that one word he did outpour.
Nothing further then he uttered - not a feather then he fluttered -
Till I scarcely more than muttered `Other friends have flown before -
On the morrow he will leave me, as my hopes have flown before.'
Then the bird said, `Nevermore.'

Startled at the stillness broken by reply so aptly spoken,
`Doubtless,' said I, `what it utters is its only stock and store,
Caught from some unhappy master whom unmerciful disaster
Followed fast and followed faster till his songs one burden bore -
Till the dirges of his hope that melancholy burden bore
Of "Never-nevermore."'

But the raven still beguiling all my sad soul into smiling,
Straight I wheeled a cushioned seat in front of bird and bust and door;
Then, upon the velvet sinking, I betook myself to linking
Fancy unto fancy, thinking what this ominous bird of yore -
What this grim, ungainly, ghastly, gaunt, and ominous bird of yore
Meant in croaking `Nevermore.'

This I sat engaged in guessing, but no syllable expressing
To the fowl whose fiery eyes now burned into my bosom's core;
This and more I sat divining, with my head at ease reclining
On the cushion's velvet lining that the lamp-light gloated o'er,
But whose velvet violet lining with the lamp-light gloating o'er,
She shall press, ah, nevermore!

Then, methought, the air grew denser, perfumed from an unseen censer
Swung by Seraphim whose foot-falls tinkled on the tufted floor.
`Wretch,' I cried, `thy God hath lent thee - by these angels he has sent thee
Respite - respite and nepenthe from thy memories of Lenore!
Quaff, oh quaff this kind nepenthe, and forget this lost Lenore!'
Quoth the raven, `Nevermore.'

`Prophet!' said I, `thing of evil! - prophet still, if bird or devil! -
Whether tempter sent, or whether tempest tossed thee here ashore,
Desolate yet all undaunted, on this desert land enchanted -
On this home by horror haunted - tell me truly, I implore -
Is there - is there balm in Gilead? - tell me - tell me, I implore!'
Quoth the raven, `Nevermore.'

`Prophet!' said I, `thing of evil! - prophet still, if bird or devil!
By that Heaven that bends above us - by that God we both adore -
Tell this soul with sorrow laden if, within the distant Aidenn,
It shall clasp a sainted maiden whom the angels named Lenore -
Clasp a rare and radiant maiden, whom the angels named Lenore?'
Quoth the raven, `Nevermore.'

`Be that word our sign of parting, bird or fiend!' I shrieked upstarting -
`Get thee back into the tempest and the Night's Plutonian shore!
Leave no black plume as a token of that lie thy soul hath spoken!
Leave my loneliness unbroken! - quit the bust above my door!
Take thy beak from out my heart, and take thy form from off my door!'
Quoth the raven, `Nevermore.'

And the raven, never flitting, still is sitting, still is sitting
On the pallid bust of Pallas just above my chamber door;
And his eyes have all the seeming of a demon's that is dreaming,
And the lamp-light o'er him streaming throws his shadow on the floor;
And my soul from out that shadow that lies floating on the floor
Shall be lifted - nevermore!

 

[pysankigirl]

our broody is a Mama!!!!! 4 eggs are hatched, one pipped. she left it behind in the nest box, though. don
't know if the chicks fell out and she followed or what but when I got home the egg was all alone and cold, but the chick was peeping inside so I stuffed it back under her.

 

[RedBrush Farm]

Missouri weather is confusing. It's the end of Jan. should be below freezing with snow. Instead, it's 70 and we are under a tornado watch and expecting severe weather with 60mph straight line winds by 2am. I have 105 eggs in the incubator. 48 to go into lock down tomorrow. There is thunder, lightning and heavy rain. Please pray that the electric stays on

 

[chiqita]

Missouri weather is confusing. It's the end of Jan. should be below freezing with snow. Instead, it's 70 and we are under a tornado watch and expecting severe weather with 60mph straight line winds by 2am. I have 105 eggs in the incubator. 48 to go into lock down tomorrow. There is thunder, lightning and heavy rain. Please pray that the electric stays on

Maybe wrap your incubator up now? Is the incubator small enough you can run it off the car battery in an emergency? I have an adaptor at home to use the car as a battery in case of an emergency, but ours are not likely to be longer then a few hours. GOOD LUCK!

 

[Snapnzap]

our broody is a Mama!!!!!  4 eggs are hatched, one pipped.  she left it behind in the nest box, though.  don
't know if the chicks fell out and she followed or what but when I got home the egg was all alone and cold, but the chick was peeping inside so I stuffed it back under her. 

Yay! I love broodys! Congrats!