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[5Sons Coop]

3 so far, i don't think I will ever get over how small quail chicks are.

 

[DwayneNLiz]

3 so far, i don't think I will ever get over how small quail chicks are.

Holy cow!!! Those things are teeny!!!

 

[BullChick]

Okay, I like you too.

I found it! I have been looking for this picture for about 15 minutes!!

It was before chickens, so probably about five years ago. I told my husband I needed chocolate from the store. He came home with all of this for me!

 

[BullChick]

3 so far, i don't think I will ever get over how small quail chicks are.

 

[DwayneNLiz]

I found it! I have been looking for this picture for about 15 minutes!!

It was before chickens, so probably about five years ago. I told my husband I needed chocolate from the store. He came home with all of this for me!

Lol CHOCOLATE !!!!!

 

[5Sons Coop]

Holy cow!!! Those things are teeny!!!

About the size of a big peanut and these are Courtix, Button quail must really be little. That is a standard mason jar waterer base and a coffee can lid.

 

[ChickenCanoe]

See this clip ti the end! Very emotional.

Very nice. Thanks for sharing. Touching story. The carving was interesting too.

I like carving. When I retired I decided to learn some new skills. I spent some time in Florence and Rome and I've always wanted to be a stone sculptor.
One of the first things I planned upon retirement was to attend a stone sculpture school in Italy.
While planning, the Missouri Botanical Garden offered classes in stone under the tutelage of famous Zimbabwean artists Royal Katiyo and Gedion Nyanhongo.
http://www.gedionnyanhongo.com/
http://fillingdon.com/gallery-view/royal-katiyo/
I signed up for their first class. No power tools are allowed - just files, chisels, wooden mallets and sandpaper.
They were very demanding perfectionists but it really paid off. It also beat spending all that money on airfare and lodging for a month or more in Italy.
This is the first piece I made. I left part of the original stone to show what I started with.
I started to create a rabbit but the stone wanted to be a duck. You can't fight the stone.











I've done some metal sculpting too.

The next skill I want to develop is glass blowing. They have classes at the

I knew I should have fixed that! LOL
That actually was my answer to each thing.
Awe!

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That's what I figured. Hoped.

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So sorry about your eggs!

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-Banti

I've had worse things happen to eggs. The most badly damaged ones weren't fertile. I patched two with liquid skin bandage. We shall see.

Good morning B
I was surcharge a pic of birthday cakes for loko and I have found the MOST bizarre cake ever, I am not shore that I can up load them!

My wife used to make the most amazing cakes. She made one for a guy's 40th birthday that was a guy being flushed down a toilet.
When I supervised the International Education Forum's foreign exchange program for Eastern Missouri and Southern Illinois (another job I forgot to list), she made a cake for our orientation of new students. She made a cake of the globe with all the continents on it and children standing around it from each country represented by the students. She said it was the hardest one she ever did.
She made a lot of Barbie cakes for our daughter, her nieces birthdays and others.

Has anyone ever successfully fixed a LG with a busted crosspiece on the lid?
-Banti

I have. I had one with a lot of chunks missing from both top and bottom. I patched it with water putty.
With yours, I'd silicone the breaks by bending just a bit to force the silicone in the cracks. Then glue some reinforcements as others have suggested.

Incubator got up to 102 on me in the summer heat. I fear I cooked them.

Quote:

They are quail eggs due to hatch today. No movement yet. I am not sure how long it was.

They'll be OK. Embryos close to hatch can take some wider temp swings.

Did you know that a lion's mane is to keep them safe from other lions' teeth when fighting?

That makes sense.
Form follows function.

yes
did you know every time you lick a stamp, you consume 1/10 of a calorie

Good thing I don't mail letters any more.

102 should not be too bad. If it's reading correctly

That's the key.

oh and btw mc i love meatloaf

He collapsed on stage at a concert yesterday. I think he's 68.
I like the food too.

Is once quail eggs are so had to candle. I did a hands off approach. Hopefully they pip and zip. The last batch I had piping, movement, chirps.

So out of interest if how hot can they get before you do cook the them.

This could put your mind at ease.
I know it is chickens but quail should be no different.
http://www.brinsea.com/Articles/Advice/PowerOff.aspx

Ohhhh! No, all the extra boys (including Banti) are leaving soon. I'm not keeping extra boys. Of any kind.
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104°

I heard the boys taste just like duck.

X2 on the 104.
my incubator was 104.3 when I checked it this morning.

I figured that was a good time to candle so I could drop the egg temp. Discarded almost 2 dozen non-starters. They were pretty old eggs when I set them.

gallon I mean

I had a tower of three 29 gallon tanks I bought from a pet shop going out of business. 1 was for angels, 1 was a community tank and 1 was a temperate tank with all local fish.
It wasn't a great deal cause 29 is a non-standard size so I couldn't buy anything to fit. I still used them for years.

How many of you are drinking more coffee today because of my avatar?

Not I. I am drinking green tea instead of beer, if that counts.

Right I believe you, not in purpose. Why not repurpose the thing and put the components in a cooler ??


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Because the only thing that's worth a hoot is the Styrofoam.
Controller is crap.
heat element is OK but 40 watts may not be enough for most systems.

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don't laugh, but I have about 10 old railroad ties in the backyard.

-Banti

Lowes was selling used railroad ties and wanted to clear the storage space in the garden center so they dropped the price from $20 to $10. I told them I'd take all of them for $3 each. There were 46 in all. 2 buddies and I moved them in 2 trailer loads. The trailer was bottoming out. The only way I could move them by myself was by walking them into position end over end. I don't know how much they weigh but I'm guessing 150# or more.

Coolers are expensive

Building a raised garden?

Most of mine are the basis of four 40X4 raised beds. I used the others as posts for my 3 bed compost system and a base for storage of other lumber.

I worried about it but once they've been pulled from the rail bed by the railroad companies, there's nothing else to leach out. Otherwise they wouldn't start to rot like mine are.

Do they even come not covered in creosote?

A sawmill by my house makes new ones you can get without being treated. They are pretty nice and relatively cheap direct from the sawmill.

Hi guys. I hope you all had a good morning. I worked 5:20-10:30 and now it is off to the feed store before they close at noon.

Can I mix the calcium and grit in an old feeder, or should they be separate?

Separate.
They have to be able to choose whether to consume the calcium. If mixed, even if they could pick out the grit, it would be coated with oyster shell dust.

Ain't no way in the world! At least introduce him to a digging iron & a pair of clam shell diggers

I just bought a new clam shell post hole digger. I like it cause it has a tape measure painted on one of the arms. That way you don't have to keep stopping to measure depth.

I'm surprised you don't get a few of those a year.

I have a hen that lays a long egg but tapered every time.

 

[DwayneNLiz]

About the size of a big peanut and these are Courtix, Button quail must really be little. That is a standard mason jar waterer base and a coffee can lid.

wow, they must look even smaller in your hand

 

[Fire Ant Farm]

OMG, I am 3000++ posts behind!

Real life has taken over this week - not in a bad way, just busy. I did get some decluttering done in the house like I had discussed (still lots to go, but there has been PROGRESS!). I've been trying to switch up my chicken chores to try to get them done in the morning before work (since it's still been over 90F at 7PM most days), and that plus figuring out when to refresh water and add ice with this many coops going has kind of messed me up a bit.

Just came inside from delayed chicken chores (alas, done in the hot part of the day today instead of first thing - that's what I get for sleeping in) - now I'm getting a friggin' heat headache. Water and aspirin, water and aspirin... Made bread this morning (dough rose overnight), making yogurt and chicken stock this afternoon if I can muster some will power, and then roasting my latest cull Naked Neck for birthday dinner tonight. Hoping to get more chores done in between (I made a list!), but I'm losing the will to move... But hey, I bought myself a new wheelbarrow for my birthday (previous one was disintegrating/rusting out) - it's what a girl wants!

Here are some nice photos of my German New Hampshire cockerels at 11.5 weeks - they are growing really well.





I'm sure I'll end up doing a read back - my CDO won't let me NOT. But I will do my best not to engage in a giant quote orgy that crashes everyone's computer/device...

Off to go get another hard orange vanilla soda (yes, it's weird - it grows on you...). Maybe I'll watch Interstellar (again), and enjoy the luxury of air conditioning.

- Ant Farm

 

[5Sons Coop]

OMG, I am 3000++ posts behind! Real life has taken over this week - not in a bad way, just busy. I did get some decluttering done in the house like I had discussed (still lots to go, but there has been PROGRESS!). I've been trying to switch up my chicken chores to try to get them done in the morning before work (since it's still been over 90F at 7PM most days), and that plus figuring out when to refresh water and add ice with this many coops going has kind of messed me up a bit. Just came inside from delayed chicken chores (alas, done in the hot part of the day today instead of first thing - that's what I get for sleeping in) - now I'm getting a friggin' heat headache. Water and aspirin, water and aspirin... Made bread this morning (dough rose overnight), making yogurt and chicken stock this afternoon if I can muster some will power, and then roasting my latest cull Naked Neck for birthday dinner tonight. Hoping to get more chores done in between (I made a list!), but I'm losing the will to move... But hey, I bought myself a new wheelbarrow for my birthday (previous one was disintegrating/rusting out) - it's what a girl wants! Here are some nice photos of my German New Hampshire cockerels at 11.5 weeks - they are growing really well. I'm sure I'll end up doing a read back - my CDO won't let me NOT. But I will do my best not to engage in a giant quote orgy that crashes everyone's computer/device... Off to go get another hard orange vanilla soda (yes, it's weird - it grows on you...). Maybe I'll watch Interstellar (again), and enjoy the luxury of air conditioning. - Ant Farm

Hey my Sagitta look similar to yours. I will have to get a pick, busy with baby quail right now.