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

[BantyChooks]

 

[Fire Ant Farm]

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x2 - It's the only thing I really curse at anymore - OW! I do the hammer thing like dax with the end of a roll.

I've been staying busy at work, then I go home and work even more. Not as far along as I wanted to be on the new coop, but it should come together a little quicker once I start laying the floor and putting up walls...

Looking good! I'm about to get going on the second big 16x8 coop - you're reminding me to get off my duff and get it done (though when, I don't know...)

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Yeah, I'm in the exact same place. At work, I'm freaking out about all the stuff at home that needs to be done, at home, I'm freaking out about all the stuff at work that needs to be done... Sigh...

Your property is fairly level because you're on the north western edge of the Ozark plateau. Head just a bit south and the bottom falls out of it.
The Ozarks are so small because they're so old. The Rockies are babies comparatively. The majestic Tetons are the youngest in North America.
The Eastern part of the Ozarks are known as the St. Francois mountains (where I grew up) are over 1.4 billion years old making them the oldest mountain range in North America and possibly on the planet. By contrast, the Appalachians are 460 million years old and the Rockies a mere 70 million.
The St. Francois are the only mountains never to have been covered by glaciers or ocean. (Ocean fossils can even be found on Everest)
They're at the collision point 300 million years ago of the North American and South American plates.
This is why all the mountains here run east and west rather than north and south. The St. Francois, Ozarks and Ouchitas. The gulf of Mexico once extended to the Ozarks.

This area is also an active seismic zone. From 1811-1812, there were over 1,000 earthquakes and aftershocks. There were no seismographs at the time but estimates are that there were 17 above magnitude 6 with three between 7.5 and 8. 800 were over M3. The largest, temporarily reversed the direction of the Mississippi. Eyewitnesses on boats said they were swept upstream a mile or more at the speed of a horse. It formed Reelfoot lake and permanently changed the course of the river.
http://www.showme.net/~fkeller/quake/mississippi_river_ran_backward.htm
http://showme.net/~fkeller/quake/maps4.htm
While there have been a couple higher magnitude quakes in Alaska and California, the area of strong shaking was 2-3 times as large as the 1964 Alaska quake and 10 times as large as the 1906 San Francisco quake.
http://earthquake.usgs.gov/earthquakes/states/events/1811-1812.php
Geologists consider another big one long overdue. FEMA recently warned that a similar quake would affect 8 states and predicted it would be the highest economic loss in US history.

YOU ARE MY HERO!!!! So cool...

-Kathy

This is precious! Careful about all these pics, or I'll get Banti Disease (and I have no room for ducks!)

@chicken hawk 33 , you might want to read some of these articles:
http://www.sheepandgoat.com/#!articles/cj5a

-Kathy

I've been reading the advice for CH, everyone, as I'll be getting goats eventually (though it'll be a couple years at least). Thanks!

We're incubating our first eggs right now. Currently on day 4. We purchased Lavender Orpington and Russian Orloff hatching eggs from a local breeder. We also have four Black Copper Marans which she included at no charge since the rooster was injured and separated the week before there's no guarantee they're fertile. We also got half a dozen mixed Barred Rock, Easter Egger, Australorp from my father in law, Two dozen total in the incubator.

Welcome!!!!

I'm jealous about your Lavender Orps.

Quote: OMG, you owe me a new keyboard!!!!

Well, my first Olive Egger to start laying did not get the memo, but I'll take light green.

Well, of the three olive egger chicks I bought, at least two are boys, and the third is looking suspicious. Dad-gummit.

OK, I need to go put the EHAL babies up on the roosts for the night. (I don't let them sleep on the ground in the coop.) BRB.

- Ant Farm

 

[BantyChooks]

e Banti disease! I am famous! e

 

[BantyChooks]

Look deeeep deeep down into my eyes...... You now have room for ducks in your coop.......
(Chaos & crew; NOT room in your stomach!!)
-Banti

 

[mlm Mike]

Look deeeep deeep down into my eyes...... You now have room for ducks in your coop.......

(Chaos & crew; NOT room in your stomach!!)
-Banti

Freezer OK?

 

[BantyChooks]

 Freezer OK? 

Same thing! NO!

 

[Nannie B]

I am new to incubating and to BYC. Please forgive if am not posting this correctly. I will be using a homemade cooler incubator with a thermostat and fan. My thermostat is set for 100 degrees and it cools to 99 degrees before coming back on. Is that too much of a fluctuation or should I set it for 101 so it doesn't below 100? Thank you for all your help.

 

[BantyChooks]

I am new to incubating and to BYC. Please forgive if am not posting this correctly. I will be using a homemade cooler incubator with a thermostat and fan.  My thermostat is set for 100 degrees and it cools to 99 degrees before coming back on. Is that too much of a fluctuation or should I set it for 101 so it doesn't below 100?  Thank you for all your help.

You are just fine! It sounds like you are well set up and prepared- I am not sure on your question, but others with more experience can help.
And welcome to BYC!
-Banti

 

[Chaos18]

Look deeeep deeep down into my eyes...... You now have room for ducks in your coop.......
(Chaos & crew; NOT room in your stomach!!)
-Banti

How bout the oven?

Same thing! NO!

Not even close.

 

[BantyChooks]

How bout the oven?
Not even close.

Well they all end up in the same place- so still no!