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

[Fire Ant Farm]

While I'm here...... Anyone else want to edit their part of the article? I really can't keep it updated without help...... Just edit the part with the names in blue below the spoiler, right at the bottom of the article. If you are not there, just tag me because that means you are in the spoiler and the spoiler is NO TOUCHY.

https://www.backyardchickens.com/a/incubating-w-friends-part-2-individual-updates
-Banti

Updated!!!

@Fire Ant Farm do you think you could use pvec for the arches since I have no idea how to do the metal?

Actually, I wasted a lot of time (and money) trying to mess with PVC and it was NOT easy, never could get it to work right. Looked it up online, and to properly really bend it is not that easy (and semi-toxic). And the conduit is more sturdy and cheaper than PVC. It requires a one time investment in a conduit bender, and it's not hard to figure out how to do (look up on YouTube and get a couple extra pieces to practice).

Just my opinion - if you can manage to get PVC reliably bent the way you want, go for it.

Quote: NONONONONONONONO!!!!!

I can't hatch any more chicks this year after this - I have 20 coming in the mail at around the same time as the CLs are due to hatch. No April HAL for me...

I'll try to get it all in one post - might take a while.

Quote: What she said.

HATCHING/INCUBATION


Fire Ant Farm aka Kristin I just set 8 cream legbar eggs (all from Lissa) in the Brinsea.

My update: Day 9 candle confirmed one clear seen on day 7 (removed), leaving 7 strong swimmers. Day 18/Lockdown is March 23. @Sally Sunshine

I'm okay but I got a morning doctor appointment...worried about blood test.....hope I'm just being cautious on my part.....

Good luck! Thinking about you.

Busy day at work (I hate coming back from vacation - I could have used another several weeks!!!! I wish...) I'm enjoying the increased daylight and spent a number of hours after work straight until after dark preparing the lumber for the next tractor - don't want to lose momentum, and those older CL babies need to be moved outside really soon!!!! (Sally, I'm scrambling to built housing for existing and coming chicks!!!! Now you want me in the April HAL? Chicken math, get thee behind me!!!!!!)

- Ant Farm

 

[daxigait]

Well, I just thought I would use plumbing elbows with PVC. I will have to check the conduit.
Really off to bed now.

 

[Mirajane]

Sooo.... I just got home from an MRI becuase I have a really strange scoliosis. The MRI is 3 hours away in San Francisco, which isn't too bad. Everything looks normal, but they still can't figure out why it developed in 3 months. Doesn't make any sense and I just decided I'd share.

 

[kwhites634]

Well, I just thought I would use plumbing elbows with PVC. I will have to check the conduit.
Really off to bed now.

If you go with PVC, be sure to get the cutter designed just for cutting PVC; whole lot easier and straighter than a hacksaw

 

[casportpony]

I finished!!!!! I'm beat, but I finished!!!!

The hardware cloth was a bear to handle (as it always is), and it was a pain (literally) to drag it to it's final position, because of the slope and uneven terrain. My hands are a little roughed up because I sort of forgot to wear gloves... It's in a spot under a tree that should leaf out, but still gets a lot of afternoon sun, so the tarp extends all the way down on that side for shade.




I finished about an hour before chicken bedtime, and the Speckled Sussex and Mr. Tankity Tank Tank were put together in their new home this evening (early enough to get their bearings and see each other a bit - lots of sexy sexy activity goin' on, lots and lots of squatting - this was WAY overdue in their eyes, I think!). I may actually miss having to round Mr. Tankity Poo up every night and put him to bed - I had a last cuddle with him on the way to his new home. On the walk there, he laid his head and neck down to look over my shoulder like a little child (he likes to do that).




I went back out after dark to put them on the roosts if they were sleeping on the ground - and they were all lined up on the roosts, with Tank in the middle and the girls all around him snuggling against him. They all looked VERY happy - it's been a very long courtship. They'll be locked in here for about a week to learn that this is home before I let them out in a paddock. The paddock will have to have overhead coverage, because the SS's are escape artists... (I'm letting them enjoy demolishing the grass inside the tractor before I put down bedding.)

Lots of folks needing hugs and thoughts and prayers - I tried to catch most via ovations, but just in case:

I was frustrated to realize that I forgot to plug the turning cradle back in after candling yesterday morning (USER ERROR AGAIN!!!). So the eggs weren't turned for about 30 hours. Hoping they'll be ok - not like I can do anything about it now except hope.

- Ant Farm

Very nice!

-Kathy

 

[Chicken Egg 17]

Sooo.... I just got home from an MRI becuase I have a really strange scoliosis. The MRI is 3 hours away in San Francisco, which isn't too bad. Everything looks normal, but they still can't figure out why it developed in 3 months. Doesn't make any sense and I just decided I'd share.

Hopfully it's nothing serious

 

[kwhites634]

Sooo.... I just got home from an MRI becuase I have a really strange scoliosis. The MRI is 3 hours away in San Francisco, which isn't too bad. Everything looks normal, but they still can't figure out why it developed in 3 months. Doesn't make any sense and I just decided I'd share.

3 hrs not bad!!!???
Must be a California thing.
Holy Moses!
GD had that when she was younger...still in her mid-20's & very pregnant...due in May...another GGD

 

[Fire Ant Farm]

Well, I just thought I would use plumbing elbows with PVC. I will have to check the conduit.
Really off to bed now.

You could - I just checked, and I think it's a wash - cost of conduit roughly the same as cost of 10' PVC plus one 90° elbow and two 45° elbows (provided you have a way to make clean cuts). And you'd need to get the conduit bender if you chose to go that route. But I have made stuff with PVC before, and it just ended up too flimsy for me. Conduit much more sturdy for construction for me. But that's just my feel for it. YMMV...

I'm heading out as well. Good night!

- Ant Farm

 

[casportpony]

Quote: Won't conduit last much longer than PVC?

-Kathy

 

[kwhites634]

Won't conduit last much longer than PVC?

-Kathy

Probably, but if PVC's covered with a tarp, the UV won't effect it as quick.