INCUBATING w/FRIENDS! w/Sally Sunshine Shipped Eggs No problem!

[kwhites634]

Good bye, people.

 

[Akrnaf2]

OUCH that is rough. That must have been an expensive tubing trip! For the Owens river trip, you start up near Mammoth Lakes - for anyone who has made that drive, you turn in to get to the river at the little green church. You get out of the river down in Bishop. So, the night before, we'd drive a few cars down to Bishop and leave them. This was back in the 80's. We had fanny packs we kept what valuables we didn't leave in the cars waiting for us. We did NOT have cell phones back then. There was usually beer in the coolers, so the tubes with the ice chests were connected to the beer drinkers. I can guarantee they would have gone in to recover anything that sank.

The Ozarks are full of great springs, clean, clear rivers and rugged forested hills. Some of the largest springs in the western hemisphere are here. The largest, Big Spring (catchy name), has an average flow of 285 million gallons a day. Maximum flow is unknown but the gage has been pegged many times at 1.3 billion gpd. The third largest is Greer Spring which turns the Eleven Point river from a warm water stream to a cold water stream. Largemouth live above the spring branch and trout live below it. As you approach the spring branch, a wall of mist rises from the river as the two dramatically different temperatures clash. Alley Spring Some of the springs are the beginning of rivers, others just add to the flow. Most of the rivers are quite cold due to the large springs feeding them. http://members.socket.net/~joschaper/jspring.html Most are good fishing streams for smallmouth, largemouth, pike, rainbow and brown trout, white and striped bass. There's a good book "Missouri Ozark Waterways" by Oz Hawksley. It's a detailed guide to 37 major float streams in the Missouri Ozark Highlands. It covers most of the navigable streams between the Missouri River and the Arkansas border. There are 6 distinct natural drainage regions in this area. 3 flow north into the Missouri and 3 flow south and east into Arkansas or directly into the Mississippi. I always have several copies of this book. There's two on my bookshelf, one in each tackle box and backpack. I don't like to be without it whenever I'm floating. Each river is described beginning near the headwaters with mile markings starting at the highest practical put-in with various landmarks noted like fords, bridges, springs, campsites, falls, islands, etc..

Just popping in to say hi. I'm about 200 pages behind. Sad news, I gave half of my April hatch to a friend. She called me this morning to tell me she put them in with her big girls and they killed all of the them. We even had a big discussion about integration before I let her have them.

I hate when that happens. I've had some people beg me to sell them birds only to have them all eaten by raccoons. It has me very reluctant to sell birds any more.

Sure is! -Kathy

Very cool! Here's my daughter on the bike she bought in Viet Nam. She was fed up with bus rides that lasted twice as long as they were supposed to be.

You live in paradise!

 

[Akrnaf2]

 
I am so confusedededed, reading back through last night, is it ok if I just skip to the goodmornings of a new day?  I think I missed the party again or something.

Party?  I was in bed by 11:00 !

You could have a bed party. ........

 

[kwhites634]

Quote: You could have a bed party. ........

 

[Akrnaf2]

Sorry for the late reply but 3 of my graduate student came to me and gave me some presents of Acknowledgements from all of my class, for the 2 years they study with me. It is very emotional for me.
So I can say that it was a good day. The vaction is till the 1 0f September.

Congratulations, based on the knowledge that you share here I am sure it is well deserved.

Thank you very much!

 

[5Sons Coop]

I don't think any birds incubate at 102.
http://modernfarmer.com/2015/04/how-to-incubate-chicken-eggs/
The last question I can't answer but you could be right.


That's a lot of work. Now just be ready to put out any fires.

No worries it was really dry and we salted it.

 

[Akrnaf2]

 

 

 

I am so confusedededed, reading back through last night, is it ok if I just skip to the goodmornings of a new day?  I think I missed the party again or something.

Party?  I was in bed by 11:00 !

You could have a bed party. ........

 

[ChickenCanoe]

Cards beat the Cubs again. Tight game 4-3, Going for the sweep tomorrow afternoon.

You live in paradise!

Thanks.
It's not always idyllic. Temps can range from -28C to 45C.
Most years we get sufficient rain to make things pretty lush. You just can't keep things from growing from April to June. It's like a green explosion.
While their size is no longer impressive, these are the oldest mountains on the continent.
There's some beautiful country in these old hills.
Probably why I haven't moved yet.

If you'd like, From time to time I'll share videos of some of my favorite places around here.

 

[Beer can]

what is tators.I mean the turtle eggs

They go with the carrots and onions in the pan below the chicken with a beer can in it's butt, on the grill.

The turtle eggs, dang, I thought I had problems with vegan predators, now your saying meat predators are going to dig up my garden right next to my chickens!

I didn't say anything about your floors, although I do like them. People pay good money to own floors that look like that, and you already have them

X2, I thought the multi-colors looked pretty cool, bet someone paid big $$ for that floor.
Our 100+ yr old house has wood floors, only in two rooms right now, pretty cool, full length boards, don't usually see that, 15' long in both the dining room and living room.

If it stays 2 F off through the range then it should read about 102. Incubation should be 99.5 in a forced air and 100.5 in a still air reading at the top of the eggs.

Be careful, I had a mercury thermometer from an incubator company that shall remain unnamed that was accurate at 75 and 2 degrees off at 100.

I always tell people you can not calibrate a thermometer using just the ice water method and expect absolute accuracy at incubation temps. I work at a dairy plant, all calibrations for the HTST's are done with state certified glass mercury thermometers, pasteurization temps are done with a hot water bath for the probes, the cold side is done with ice bath, BOTH with a state certified glass mercury thermometer to boot. Calibrations if possible should be done as close to the temp desired as possible, IMHO of course. Kinda hard to do at incu temp though.

 

[Akrnaf2]

 

Cards beat the Cubs again. Tight game 4-3, Going for the sweep tomorrow afternoon.

You live in paradise!

Thanks.
It's not always idyllic. Temps can range from -28C to 45C.
Most years we get sufficient rain to make things pretty lush. You just can't keep things from growing from April to June. It's like a green explosion.
While their size is no longer impressive, these are the oldest mountains on the continent.
There's some beautiful country in these old hills.
Probably why I haven't moved yet.

We live in a semidesert country and we really apriciat water when we see it.