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

[tao chick]

Thanks, all. I enjoy painting, usually. I'd rather freehand than all the taping and measuring involved in this. And, to be honest, it's not that great a job- I still have lots of touch ups to do. In a way, my son rescued me from hating this job.
Sally, the colors are for the Mets. The bonus is they are also the Syracuse Orange colors. My son is a fan of (Calvin and) Hobbes so I'll also add some of those details too.

 

[Sally Sunshine]

Quote: I dont think I have ever float tested

Hey!!! Just popping in to say hello!!! And let you know I have one hatched and 2 more pips!!!!

Caught up!!!!!

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My hygrometer in my Brinsea Octagon 20 Advance is off by anywhere from 6 to 10% RH (depending on the range). It's a great incubator, holds humidity and temp great - just needed to know how to set it by comparing with a calibrated thermometer and hygrometer. I know I've shared this a lot (my apologies if it's repetitive), but I was guilty of assuming that because it was new and expensive, it HAD to be right. Wrong, and I had problems with my last hatch because of it.

Quote: Oh, yeah. I got my mouth washed out with soap loads of time. Sometimes my mother, but more frequently by my grandmother.

You know, she kept a special kind of soap (blanking on which kind) JUST for washing our mouths out - because it tasted especially bad. My uncle (only 6 years older than me) was a terror, and so she had it around because of him.

I'll go blind, I just know it...

Quote: Normal is over-rated. If someone called me normal, I think I would be insulted...
@tao chick that is an AWESOME paint job! Can you come paint my house? You have to pick the colors, though - I have a decision making disorder when it comes to my house...

Busy day today! Up BEFORE the crowing started (a miracle) - because I got to bed early and got a good night's sleep for once (which was one of the points of taking vacation time, after all). No pain killers for headaches this morning (for the first time in ages!). Alas, I ended up putting about 3 hours in at work (despite being on vacation) with something that really needs to get done. Then I spent the rest of the day bending 10 ft lengths of 3/4" EMT conduit for the tractor coops (I bent 5 tractors' worth - it's easier to do it all at the same time, since there's a bit of a knack to it). This photo has just one tractor's worth, but it gives you an idea - the 90° bend in the middle is fairly easy once you work out the right offset for your conduit bender. It's the kicks at each end that take an "eye" to get in the same plane. I bent 20 of them today - actually quite a bit of work, and in the rain (hey, neither I nor the conduit was going to melt, and it needed to get done...).



Then I put together the lumber "bones" of the first tractor in this batch (I have lumber on site and mostly prepped for three, need to get lumber to build 2 more after that).



Tomorrow, a dilemma: Take advantage of the fact that I'm on vacation and drive to my very favorite winery in New Braunfels, or begin adding conduit and hardware cloth and tarps to the tractor as soon as it gets light. Decisions, decisions...

- Ant Farm
Very interesting!!!! Take advantage look how much you have accomplished its all downhill from here!

 

[Spinning Carrie]

Thanks, all. I enjoy painting, usually. I'd rather freehand than all the taping and measuring involved in this. And, to be honest, it's not that great a job- I still have lots of touch ups to do. In a way, my son rescued me from hating this job.
Sally, the colors are for the Mets. The bonus is they are also the Syracuse Orange colors. My son is a fan of (Calvin and) Hobbes so I'll also add some of those details too.

That looks great! I love Calvin and Hobbes. My sixth graders get two pages under the document-cam right before math to quiet them down.

 

[Sally Sunshine]

Thanks, all. I enjoy painting, usually. I'd rather freehand than all the taping and measuring involved in this. And, to be honest, it's not that great a job- I still have lots of touch ups to do. In a way, my son rescued me from hating this job.
Sally, the colors are for the Mets. The bonus is they are also the Syracuse Orange colors. My son is a fan of (Calvin and) Hobbes so I'll also add some of those details too.

 

[tao chick]

Busy day today! Up BEFORE the crowing started (a miracle) - because I got to bed early and got a good night's sleep for once (which was one of the points of taking vacation time, after all). No pain killers for headaches this morning (for the first time in ages!). Alas, I ended up putting about 3 hours in at work (despite being on vacation) with something that really needs to get done. Then I spent the rest of the day bending 10 ft lengths of 3/4" EMT conduit for the tractor coops (I bent 5 tractors' worth - it's easier to do it all at the same time, since there's a bit of a knack to it). This photo has just one tractor's worth, but it gives you an idea - the 90° bend in the middle is fairly easy once you work out the right offset for your conduit bender. It's the kicks at each end that take an "eye" to get in the same plane. I bent 20 of them today - actually quite a bit of work, and in the rain (hey, neither I nor the conduit was going to melt, and it needed to get done...). Then I put together the lumber "bones" of the first tractor in this batch (I have lumber on site and mostly prepped for three, need to get lumber to build 2 more after that). Tomorrow, a dilemma: Take advantage of the fact that I'm on vacation and drive to my very favorite winery in New Braunfels, or begin adding conduit and hardware cloth and tarps to the tractor as soon as it gets light. Decisions, decisions... - Ant Farm

That looks like a great project (or 5). Good job! When it comes to picking paint colors I always search for inspiration from a favorite object or something. My daughter had a favorite pair of socks. She took them with us to the store to pick out her room color. My other son wanted Jets green with white wainscot. I have no idea what color I'll choose for my bedroom. It's currently primer gray, which isn't too bad and saves me from having to make a decision right now.

 

[Spinning Carrie]

    When do you plan to set the eggs?

I am going to set The week of April 24th, after we get act from Spring Break.

 

[tao chick]

That looks great! I love Calvin and Hobbes. My sixth graders get two pages under the document-cam right before math to quiet them down.

I love it too. I might pick a couple favorites to paint on a canvas to hang. I really wanted to have Hobbes hiding somewhere on the wall. I might do that in the closet.

 

[ChickenCanoe]

That's the link I used to do the test. I'm just wondering if the three that are floating super low but haven't completely sunk to the bottom of the bowl are still possibly viable.

Someone tell me if I'm wrong. Isn't the only thing a float test will tell is how much water is lost and nothing about viability of the embryo?

I'm not at all a fan of the float test. IMO, the only thing it's reliable for is to tell if the chick is alive, but only if the chick is kicking at the time. Even if the chick is very much alive, if it's not moving at the time, obviously there will be no waves. location of egg in the water is only an indicator of how much moisture the egg has lost.

Amen.

I love my Marans, but incubating their eggs does drive me crazy. I just pop them in and hope they do something because I can't see a thing in them. So, its like a surprise everytime one hatches

I do the same with penedesenca. Trust the temp, humidity and fertility. Voila - chicks.

I have found that float test to be unreliable unless my chicks were kicking around. I threw away viable eggs because they didn't move. The only test that is reliable is candeling and sometimes that's a challenge if you don't know what you're looking at. I hope this helps. What day are they on?

X2

 

[Fire Ant Farm]

Quote: Winery it is!!!

(Besides, it's supposed to rain all day, and I can't have my compressor and pneumatic stapler out in the rain...)

- Ant Farm

 

[kwhites634]

I gonna close the lid early tonight. Looks like it's gonna be pretty slow, and I'm about half tired.
Y'all take it easy....on 2nd thought,take it any way you can get it and hope it's easy)
'Nite, y'all

'Nite, Kid