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

[casportpony]

Quote: Nice car!

-Kathy

 

[DwayneNLiz]

Nice car!

-Kathy

Love the car

technically it's the hubbies, i get the old jeep
and my daughter thinks they are BOTH hers, and one of the harleys

 

[DwayneNLiz]

@casportpony did you see my question to you about your leghorn ??

 

[casportpony]

@casportpony did you see my question to you about your leghorn ??

No, I missed that. What was it?

-Kathy

 

[casportpony]

Quote: They are amazing cars... and I love the big motors, lol.

-Kathy

 

[lazy gardener]

Came home at 4:30 to pip #2. She's making slow but steady progress. Having a hard time getting humidity up in the coolerbator. 48 qt. Any readers out there with same home made model tell me what you've used for humidity? I did not put in an elevated hatching tray. I have 2 sponges in a qt yogurt container, with water in the bottom (sides and top cut out with plastic needle point canvas) An other sponge just under the fan, laying horizontally on an air baffle shelf.

 

[DwayneNLiz]

No, I missed that. What was it?

-Kathy

gallbladder infection, gallstones, inflammation of the pancreas don't remember exactly what i said i think i put a link in it too, i''l have to try to find it

 

[Fire Ant Farm]

Banti here some pic. From my ex floc

Benny, these are NICE birds!!! I see what you meant. Still good that you can get those prices, though.

phil you have these?

They do seem like they might be useful for you, Phil!

I use this after a long day working in the yard:



I bought it as a gift for my father, and kept forgetting to give it to him, year after year, until it finally applied to me well enough that I just started using it!

Well, after some effort, the Coop of Sadness is now dismantled:





I've measured out where the new coop will go as well, but will need to do a bit of clean up first (as you can see). But at least it's pretty level (the NN coop had to be built up on blocks to make it level). I will need to trim some of the lower branches of the red oak it's under, but I have to wait until June-July because of the risk of oak wilt - I'll just have to work around that, hope to have this done before then... The main reason I needed to set the site of the coop is so I can then know where the growout tractor coop will go (so it won't be in the way). Space under the shade of this "mother tree" is highly prized for chicken housing, given the brutal summer heat.

@Sally Sunshine , by way of a chick update, my babies that I hatched out in February (my very first hatch, the Cream Legbars, plus the shipped Aloha NNs) decided to pose for a school picture this morning, just for you (of course, not ALL of them would hold still):


OK, break over. Heading out to dismantle the PVC Frat House/Bachelor Pad and gather the hardware cloth for reuse. I also need to figure out some sort of workable cover for my compost pile - already having fly issues (despite trying to keep all poop covered with other material), likely because of our recent rain. Anyone try landscape cloth? That might be a task for tomorrow...

- Ant Farm

 

[lindalouly]

Came home at 4:30 to pip #2. She's making slow but steady progress. Having a hard time getting humidity up in the coolerbator. 48 qt. Any readers out there with same home made model tell me what you've used for humidity? I did not put in an elevated hatching tray. I have 2 sponges in a qt yogurt container, with water in the bottom (sides and top cut out with plastic needle point canvas) An other sponge just under the fan, laying horizontally on an air baffle shelf.

This is what I did for my bator.. I bought a small shower caddy thing that sticks to the side of the walls, meant to hold bottles and stuff.. I put it on the wall of my bator.. Coolerbator... I measured the humidity with water in it and one sponge... added a like second sponge and measure that humidity and got an idea of the amount each one puts out.. I ended up with two and half sponges to reach my 65 percent humidity to hold through lock down.. hope that helps some...

 

[lazy gardener]

Thanks. That's exactly the info I was needing. My air cells look great in there now. I'm still gonna hatch upright. Though, I may lay some down. I even bought a package of sanitary pads. Figure they'd hold a lot of water!