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

[lindalouly]

What do y'all think of this design? It's a pre-fab kit that I bought last year. It's about 45" long x about 3' wide, with another door in the back. The angled tops are hinged. I want a 2nd coop for grow-out, and I'm thinking about copying it. I'd change the doors to slide up & down, rather than side-to-side ( bedding currently gets into the tracks, despite a board across the bottom of the opening..a real PITA)

That's a neat setup. My coop is nothing special at all... But we kind of built it blindly and it works great. I think what ever you create will be awesome.

 

[Chaos18]

Just got caught up from yesterday afternoons post. Not gonna try to quote them all but here goes.

Nutria have no place in my book. They have destroyed my pond. Went from a 15-20 ft deep 1 acre beauty with 5-6 lb largemouth and enough bluegill that the 4 of us could fish all day Saturday with no more than a few minutes without a fish on the line into a 5ft deep mud pit that I don't think even has a fish in it. They tunneled through the dam and it now flows into a drainage ditch. Tried having a few people come out and look at it to help me fix it but nobody is willing to invest the work because that portion of the property is in a flood plain. The joys of living at or below sea level.

Fire370 awesome on supporting ccl in your workplace. I got mine back a few months ago and just about the only time I'm not carrying is when I'm in uniform. That might be soon to change as they are considering opening it up to limited personnel on base. luckily I'm at a point in my career that I may be able to be one of the select few. Hard to imagine I've served in the AF for the past 15 years and one of the few places that I cant carry is on base. Also I think you were the one that was mentioned as having coyote experience. I'm still trying to figure out how to tag people but did you see my post a few days ago about a predator and do you have any input about the possibility of coyotes. Haven't had any issues and nothing on the camera since I put it out Sun afternoon so hopefully its good to go now.

MC congratulations on finding your keys and Chaos time to watch out she's definitely mobile now that she has got keys.

Next question is to anybody that feels like giving input. I have a digital thermo/hygrometer as one of the 4 thermos in my incubator right now. the one I feel is most consistent and would prefer to use is a bulb type with the open sensor. How can I go about testing that to check for accuracy. plan was to get a cheap medical thermometer and use that to compare the two but how can I do that without submerging the open bulb. Wife is probably gonna kill me if I say I want another thermometer. I need to find a was to mistakenly buy one the spot checks and be done with it. Managed to accidently buy a gun at auction once and it worked so who knows.

I was in trouble long before she found them.

 

[NaJoBeLe]

I was in trouble long before she found them.

Yeah I think your right. You and whites both. Heck If I hang around long enough and can stay caught up I will probably wind up on the list as well.

 

[lindalouly]

Good morning everyone 3 chicks are out of their shells moving around and 7 new pips!! My goal was hatching 1 live chick so I win! At least one has feathers on his feet so Ugh Boots Jr will be one of their names

Wooohooooo!!!!!

 

[mrleeroy]

LED will give off alot of heat?

It is possible that there are also more than just LED lights inside the enclosure. Usually anything that takes power will get warm to some degree, just some things more than others.

 

[kwhites634]

oh forgot

pup pics updates from the families

Hope they named the top one "Trouble". Last one's priceless; love the facial expression, like "Can I please have a treat, pretty please?

 

[NaJoBeLe]

ok I think they all say 12V  there is a three pack, and I think I even seen them cheaper at walmart.  will investigate, would be sweet to wire them onto the lid where they stay clean and have a switch inline somewheres!  thank you!!



just a dumb question, cant you check them with your room thermostat?

ahh the irony of it all. No question is a dumb question and yes I suppose that would make perfectly logical sense.

 

[lindalouly]

oh forgot pup pics updates from the families

Pupppppies. They are lovely.

 

[Chaos18]

That's a neat setup. My coop is nothing special at all... But we kind of built it blindly and it works great. I think what ever you create will be awesome.

As long as it works for what you need it to it doesn't really matter what it looks like.

 

[lindalouly]

Finally read all the way through. Good morning to you all. Made it through night two without any problems that I could tell minus just having to add water. Hope everyone is having a swell day. Debating making the DH run the kids to the dentist so I can get caught up around the house. Hoping for a good day for me and all of you.