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

[BantyChooks]

Coop is cleaned, and the ducks' new pool is set up! They LOVE it.


Happier Burds I have not seen in quite some time......
-Banti

 

[ChickenCanoe]

Yeah, considering I left IBM in '87

I feel your pain.
Technology has skyrocketed past me.
My first apple was a IIc. My first IBM was an XT with no hard drive but the luxury of two floppies. I had one of those big 8 inch external drives.
ABB robots had their own proprietary language and even their own floppy drive system using 5 1/4" floppies but couldn't be read in any other computer system without decoding software.
Kawasaki robots ran 2 languages simultaneously. One was similar to C++.
I'm trying to school myself to catch up on what I've missed out on over the last 10 years.

The good part is that micro controllers are available at micro prices and many are open architecture and free operating systems.

 

[Duckies Girls]

Yeah.... Um.... NOPE!

Oh.... I know they didn't have chickens.... Their shoes were clean.

(I do not have a single pair of shoes that is clean. Even my dress shoes have ummm "organic material" on the bottom)
-Banti

My shoes are the same! I was walking down the hall at work last week and heard someone say 'Is that a chunk of poop or is it mud?!'... I stopped dead in my tracks for about three seconds then kept walking.

 

[BantyChooks]

My shoes are the same! I was walking down the hall at work last week and heard someone say 'Is that a chunk of poop or is it mud?!'... I stopped dead in my tracks for about three seconds then kept walking.

Been there, done that........

 

[BullChick]

If you give him 6 or more additional hens, the problem will be resolved. All bets are off if you don't lose the eight cockerels.
You may want to do something now so their feathers will grow back with molt so they aren't bald through winter.

In about two weeks, there will be a rooster and about thirteen girls. There will also be a trio I plan to keep separate. At that time, I will be returning the chickens to layer feed. I will also be gluing a saddle to Bonnie Tyler if I have to.

 

[BullChick]

Been there, done that........

Duckling showed up around six. She was walking around, and handed me poop. Her one cowgirl boot had dog poop on it. Five minutes later she handed me a piece of dog vomit.

 

[ChickenCanoe]

Yeah, considering I left IBM in '87

My sister was a computer stager for Anheuser Busch back when computers occupied whole rooms. She'd get a call from a brewery that needed a file and she'd get the tape with the file on it, load it onto the tape drive that was about 7' tall so the brewery could access it.
She and my brother both started in the key punch era. He worked for Missouri-Pacific railroad and she worked for Cummins Diesel.
He went from there to Emerson where he was head of programming, then to Leggett and Platte finally ending up as vice president of information systems.
I'm the picker of low hanging fruit in the family. Or is that my other sister.

 

[ChickenCanoe]

In about two weeks, there will be a rooster and about thirteen girls. There will also be a trio I plan to keep separate. At that time, I will be returning the chickens to layer feed. I will also be gluing a saddle to Bonnie Tyler if I have to.

Good plan. But you don't need to glue the saddle. The straps go under the wings. They're not that pleased to be wearing them though.
With the trio, you may need to separate the rooster from time to time. Or rotate hens in with the boy.
The roosters shouldn't be getting layer feed. They don't build egg shells. 4% calcium is too high for rooster longevity.

 

[BullChick]

My sister was a computer stager for Anheuser Busch back when computers occupied whole rooms. She'd get a call from a brewery that needed a file and she'd get the tape with the file on it, load it onto the tape drive that was about 7' tall so the brewery could access it.
She and my brother both started in the key punch era. He worked for Missouri-Pacific railroad and she worked for Cummins Diesel.
He went from there to Emerson where he was head of programming, then to Leggett and Platte finally ending up as vice president of information systems.
I'm the picker of low hanging fruit in the family. Or is that my other sister.

I suddenly want a beer.

 

[BullChick]

Good plan. But you don't need to glue the saddle. The straps go under the wings. They're not that pleased to be wearing them though.
With the trio, you may need to separate the rooster from time to time. Or rotate hens in with the boy.
The roosters shouldn't be getting layer feed. They don't build egg shells. 4% calcium is too high for rooster longevity.

I took out the disclaimer that I could not care less about a rooster eating layer feed. I never keep them long enough. And that the trio rooster will not be kept with only two girls. Come fall, I will be sure he is the only boy with them, but otherwise, I will mix it up as the need arises. I plan to set for one of the hatch-a-longs to see what the babies will look like. Then the trio will be sold, or he will be processed.