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[lozerface79]

I hear crickets!

Tell them to be quiet. Theyre too loud

 

[BullChick]

Tell them to be quiet. Theyre too loud

 

[BullChick]

My "logical" brain said that there was a good explanation. Everything was alright, and I would solve the mystery.
18 chicks. Gone! They were a few days shy of six weeks. Too big and too many to be taken away by a weasel. Even in the dark, I could see well enough to know they weren't on the roost, or under it. Not in one of the chickens' nestboxes... Where are those chicks?!?!
I Finally put my hand into the duck nest box. Why are the ducks so upset this morning, anyway?
No egg that I could find. I was pushing chicks left and right, pulling a few out (I held one. Ohhhhhh, she was so soft!

). Maybe the duck didn't lay.

So, why the duck box?

 

[hippiestink]

My "logical" brain said that there was a good explanation. Everything was alright, and I would solve the mystery.
18 chicks. Gone! They were a few days shy of six weeks. Too big and too many to be taken away by a weasel. Even in the dark, I could see well enough to know they weren't on the roost, or under it. Not in one of the chickens' nestboxes... Where are those chicks?!?!
I Finally put my hand into the duck nest box. Why are the ducks so upset this morning, anyway?
No egg that I could find. I was pushing chicks left and right, pulling a few out (I held one. Ohhhhhh, she was so soft!

). Maybe the duck didn't lay.

So, why the duck box?

¯\_(ツ)_/¯

 

[BullChick]

Good morning

 

[hippiestink]

For those wondering, I am far enough away from what's happening in Brussels that we are completely safe. Keep us in your thoughts, and if you have loved ones in the area please be aware that there is a Facebook watch going on where you can check if they're okay.

 

[kwhites634]

@hippiestink
The fact that you're on here must mean you're o.k. after the Brussels bombing. Terrible, terrible tragedy.
How close are you to Brussels?

 

[hippiestink]

@hippiestink
The fact that you're on here must mean you're o.k. after the Brussels bombing. Terrible, terrible tragedy.
How close are you to Brussels?

About twenty minutes. Texas family is all worried about us, but it's considerably far for us little-country people. The affected area seems to not even reach past Zaventem (the town), so the most troublesome thing for those of us who know that family and friends are okay and who are hunkered down outside the area is the spotty cell and internet service. It makes it difficult to keep in contact with people.

All I can say is I am VERY glad that I have some measure of self-sufficiency with my garden and my chickens. If it hits the fan, I'm better prepared than most.

 

[kwhites634]

I am really perplexed. A year or 2 ago I ordered a Brinsea Spot Check. When it arrived I tried to use it and wasn't having any luck. It either wouldn't read the temp ( it would just flash for a bit & then turn off) or it would start to read the temp & then shut off. I figured I just didn't know how to interpret the directions. I really prefer the written word directions instead of the newer picture type direction. Anyway, I just set it aside and figured I would figure it out later. So for the Easter HAL I got it back out and was having the same results. I finally decided to try a new battery and that seemed to help. But the temps it read were stable for a while around 99 point something and then one morning it was at 104.5! The other thermometer ( red mercury type ) was only a degree higher.
Now the Brinsea is back to giving me trouble. It will just flash L while the other thermometer is reading 100 and the one on the bator says 96. I don't know what to think. I really don't think my bator is so cool that the Brinsea can't read it! Since lockdown is in 3 days, I'm just leaving things as they are. I did look through the links & notes pages trying to see if there was a way to calibrate or ice water test the Brinsea or something, but I didn't find anything. (What I found basically said leave it alone, it's calibrated great from the factory).

Most of my own eggs were clears ( I wasn't sure any would be fertile as it was), but I do have 15 or 16 eggs that belong to a friend in the incubator (along with 4 or 5 of my own), So I am really hoping that we get a fairly decent hatch from hers. But I'm so perplexed, I just don't know!

Any words of wisdom? Or pointing me in the right direction? I know the Brinsea Spot checks are suppose to be really good ( at least that;s what I thought), so is it still user error on my part?

Thanks for any help you can give!

Don't recall who it was, but someone in here was saying not long ago that their Spot Check was off; may have been Sally...you can check with her; she can likely help you get the beast calibrated.@Sally Sunshine

 

[BullChick]

Good morning, Whites