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

[Ur-ur-ur-urrr]

For those of you who have tried nipples with chicks, do you use horizontal or vertical, and is it hard to get them to figure it out? How do you do it?

Horizontal. All of my chicks figured it out on their own. The shiny nipples and their natural curiousity work hand in hand. Might want to use a conventional water dispenser for the first week so they get big and strong enough to operate the nipples...

 

[NaJoBeLe]

No it is not a BT (bacillus thuringiensis israelensis it is our!) BT is usually used in protecting leafy plant, that when the insect eats the leaf, or the stem the crystal in the BT disintegrate the insect digestive tract.
With this Beatle that its larvae borrows in the growth center of the palm tree you cant go deep sufficiently.
I use a combined treatment that use 3 products, one that keels in touch, 2 that kill when eaten, one of them is systemic when is entered to the growth center. I have doing something good because my tree is the only Canarien palm in a radius of 3 km that is not infected! Here are trying to fined a treatment that use Nematodes, I am hopping!

Glad its working for you. beautiful tree, hopefully your treatments will continue to be successful. We had bag worms here a couple years ago and they took out a lot of cypress trees.

 

[Akrnaf2]

4 times a year FOREVER!

Is it time consuming to apply the treatment or can it be done fairly easily?

It takes me 1-2 hours once every 3 months, I have used a telescopic pole, that I have used to color my house, and this apparatus give the possibility to drench the growing center of the palm, which is located 0.5-1 m beneath the starting point of the palm leaf ( this S_ B love to eat the heart of palms! )

 

[Sally Sunshine]

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Your project birds are awesome by the way.

Thanks

Another new open contest


https://www.backyardchickens.com/t/...test-7th-annual-byc-easter-hatch-a-long/0_100

Deadline for entry is April 7th , 2016 at midnight PST​

Contest # 11
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Peeps Art Contest!
7th Annual Easter Hatch-a-long!

"Eep”–a clever play on Pixar's “Up” Film​

The Winner of the Washington Post's 2010 Peeps Diorama Contest​

Enter the PEEPS Art Contest by Constructing
a MARSHMALLOWY Peeps masterpiece out of the sugary candy PEEPS!
The concept is simple, use PEEPS, to create a sculpture, mosaic, diorama, or other type of visual art.
PEEPS do not have to be the main component of the piece, but they should be the focus.

2 Entries per contestant, 3 images per Entry
A panel of Judges will choose the winner

For some PEEPS inspiration, see what others have created:
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Washington, D.C. - http://www.washingtonpost.com/lifestyle/magazine/peeps
Denver, CO - http://www.denverpost.com/food/ci_19957260
Westminster, MD - http://www.flickr.com/photos/carrollartscenter/sets/72157629831829679/
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Thank you Mike!

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Hey Kristin, Its Friday now and no "crawling out of your skin" is allowed!! I hope you have a much better day!! And yer such a chicken cuddler!!! Take some selfies with them and on your shoulder perhaps? We are going to do another HAL and perhaps we have a contest in mind! hint hint

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"cup of cheese cup of cheese" @fire370

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And yes, so the dishwasher will match the fridge...

drapes match the carpet

Well got caught up but the alarm will be going off in about 6 hrs so I gotta call it a night.

Update on the shipped eggs with loose air cells..all but 3 seem to have reattached. Still plan to do the styro cartons with bottoms cut out for incubation.

Got incubator cleaned and it's drying but need to grab some supplies tmrw to tweak it before I fire it back up.
Aquarium gravel
Shelf liner
Air hose
And something that I'm forgetting. Oh yeah pads. Nope can't bring myself to do that. I have sponges.

Good night all

glad some are good now!!

@Sally Sunshine Hi Sally, jumping on the band wagon. Set 23 eggs in the bator tonight. 6 Icelandic, 6 SFH, 7 EE mixes, 2 Silkie & 2 Chantecler/EE x Ice mixes. Wish me luck, got get practiced up for EHAL. Also have 3 Icelandic on day 18 under my Silkiebator

Sweet lisa!! gotcha added!!!

 

[Chaos18]

It takes me 1-2 hours once every 3 months, I have used a telescopic pole, that I have used to color my house, and this apparatus give the possibility to drench the growing center of the palm, which is located 0.5-1 m beneath the starting point of the palm leaf ( this S_ B love to eat the heart of palms! )

That's not to bad. Is there nothing else that can be done about this beetle?

 

[attimus]

No bag worms over there?  They do more damage here than most anything else.

man those suck too looked aup a few pics, remind me of army worms but more like the plague.

 

[kwhites634]

man those suck too looked aup a few pics, remind me of army worms but more like the plague.

Not sure bag worm is the proper name, but that's what they're known as locally.

 

[Chaos18]

No bag worms over there? They do more damage here than most anything else.

flamethrowers work wonders on them

 

[NaJoBeLe]

Not sure bag worm is the proper name, but that's what they're known as locally.

That's what they are called down here also. Don't remember them growing up in northern AL but they are all over the place here in NC. Had a bad outbreak back a few years ago.

 

[daxigait]

Glad to hear it's improving!

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