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[kwhites634]

Quote: That heater keep the water from freezing? Joey said his doesn't, at least not well. He has one, I think, that resembles a flattened out frisby, that the bucket sets on.

 

[ChickenCanoe]

That heater keep the water from freezing? Joey said his doesn't, at least not well. He has one, I think, that resembles a flattened out frisby, that the bucket sets on.

When I use a bucket, I use a bird bath heater submerged in the bucket.
One like this.
http://www.ruralking.com/farm-innov...m_medium=cpc&gclid=CPby8urj1c4CFQYdaQodGNUD6g

 

[Chaos18]

That heater keep the water from freezing? Joey said his doesn't, at least not well. He has one, I think, that resembles a flattened out frisby, that the bucket sets on.

Yea it kept my water from freezing. Mine was a submersible one.

 

[Chaos18]

When I use a bucket, I use a bird bath heater submerged in the bucket.
One like this.
http://www.ruralking.com/farm-innov...m_medium=cpc&gclid=CPby8urj1c4CFQYdaQodGNUD6g

This is the one I used last winter and it worked great.

https://www.amazon.com/dp/B002QXN1E...TF8&colid=33APR46JJ7EHU&coliid=I3Q0DKP51ZWBRA

 

[DwayneNLiz]

Therapy to RECOVER from shock.

Hi all! Two pips, both in sultan x eggs....

I locked down Sat night.... I have a pip! I raised the humidity to 69%.
Is this right?

Sure does

When I use a bucket, I use a bird bath heater submerged in the bucket.
One like this.
http://www.ruralking.com/farm-innov...m_medium=cpc&gclid=CPby8urj1c4CFQYdaQodGNUD6g

i was thinking about using a fish tank heater, a submersible one

 

[kwhites634]

Quote: Big fan of chicken corn soup

 

[BullChick]

When I use a bucket, I use a bird bath heater submerged in the bucket.
One like this.
http://www.ruralking.com/farm-innov...m_medium=cpc&gclid=CPby8urj1c4CFQYdaQodGNUD6g

That is the one that Ur Ur was saying he had, and recommended everyone get.

 

[kwhites634]

Quote: That's his. I guess it doesn't go under the bucket, after all; been a while

 

[Jessimom]

HI! Good day, ehhh not really but it's not horrible either. Heat and humidity are down in ohio thank goodness! Good luck with the roosters.

Thanks!! I'm glad the temps and humidity are down.

The conversation didn't start about creamed corn. It was about Mexican corn soup.
FRESH corn on the cob is great.

How about corn tortillas.

I'll be processing some cockerels/roosters soon.
I have 10 hens, 3 roosters and hatched May 30 were 4 cockerels and 2 pullets. That's a bad ratio.

I have another rooster coming back to me later this week that I sold 3 years ago along with one or two pullets.
I think I have to drive to Des Moines, IA to pick them up. That will be an all day trip.

I don't like, but was ok with the corn soup, but when it switched to cream corn, I got a bit grossed out. I'm a flour tortilla person, crunchy corn tortilla shells are ok sometimes.

That's pretty nice to make an all day trip to pick up a roo that you already got rid of once....

Howdy.
Fresh sweet corn is absolutely delicious. How many roos do you have to do?

I don't have a patience to grow my own, but from farm stands around the area we get good corn. But, MAYBE twice a year I'll eat it. My folks have it every few days all summer.

I currently have 4 crowing, big enough to eat. In the group of babies I am housing at someone else's house (I stop by twice a day to feed and water), I have 3 crowing, but they are tiny. They have at least 5 full grown roosters in their coop, so they don't mind my baby's squeaky crows, so I'll let them get a bit bigger.

 

[daxigait]

This house (1903) was built with a coal chute, coal room and a coal burning boiler. Later it was converted to a gas boiler to heat the radiators in each room.
The fireplace is also a coal burner. There are two chimneys side by side for both the boiler and the fireplace.
The coal flue is too small and the fire box too tall and narrow for a wood fire.
I plan on enlarging the fireplace, tying it into the larger coal boiler flue and perhaps adding a smaller, efficient gas boiler to heat the paved sections of the property for snowmelt.
Heating the house is no longer with radiators even though they are still in place. There are 2 forced air gas furnaces, one on each floor.
Coal smoke pollution was so bad here by the 1920s that the Missouri Botanical Garden was convinced the tropical plants wouldn't survive the lack of sunlight and smoky air. They bought a property about 40 miles west, to where they were planning on moving all the sensitive plants - especially the expansive and expensive orchid collection.
It was estimated that people in the city inhaled 15 tablespoons of soot in a 5 day winter period.
If you look at the 1920s history in the following link you'll see how things changed.
https://www.mobot.org/mobot/archives/fulltext_images.asp



I haven't but may try it. I've wrapped my water barrels to prevent sunlight from causing algae growth.

Wrapped. With what,?