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[ellymayRans]

So I had this big long rant typed out because we have had no power since 930 last night! Of course I am on day 19 of my hatch. I was literally sitting in my truck with an extension cord ran to the bator inside! As I was typing it poof came back on! At 1030 REMC website said power to be restored by 11:15..when that didn't happen and I'd exhausted power from a portable charger and a ups battery backup I had to think! !! I didn't want to physically move the bator as it had already gotten down to 93 degrees! Yes these of course are the pricey shipped eggs. ..first time ever and I lose power...no storms..no preparation expecting it to happen! Ugh! 26% of Morgan County was reported to have no power! Have no idea why!

Thank goodness it's back on!

Funny note...the brooder is in my office with the bator but I didn't want to use energy from my only power sources to power the heat lamp. Most are almost 3 weeks. Then I have the new bantys (6) of them in the same tub but in a tiny box..because they are tiny. Lol. Well if you remember one of babes from the last hatch has a crossed beak. Well so she isn't fighting for food I put her with the bantys. So power comes on I rush in to plug the bator back in and that cross beaked babe is wings spread out covering all 6 of those bantys! Talk about precious! Pic is blurry because I zoomed in so not to disturb them.

So any input on my temps fluctuating so much for almost 4 hours! ?!??!! I would really hope with how close to hatch they are they will be okay

 

[ellymayRans]

O and they are all sound asleep!

 

[Chaneys Ranch]

Quote: Nite pipd!

Hey guys!! I found a shed someone will sell to me for 100$!!!! Is there ANYONE here who is familiar with how to move one and can help me haul it???? I can pay you! This would work really well from what people are saying. It looks like it just needs a little paint and some trim. Of course I'd need to figure out a bottom...


Can anyone help??

It depends how far you are from us, we are south of pendleton. Send me a PM, maybe we can help. DH and I have moved several (look back a few pages we were just talking about it) And we just moved one last weekend, have one more to go.
As far as the floor, Deep Litter is excellent and a healthy choice for your birds. If there isn't a floor you are all set!

 

[Chaneys Ranch]

Been busy this week already. Glad springs here! Clearing all the scrubby brush out from the creek before it gets green. Lots of yard work ahead of us!
Have my sportsman cabinet chock full! All my species all laying finally, even scovies and guinea. So much to do!

 

[LonelyPageTurne]

Ok...so I bought the plans for the coop I linked. I'm going to make it 4x8 and a slant roof (dunno the correct term for it) that opens, though instead of the whole thing opening I'm going to cut it in half I think so I open 2 pieces instead of the one she has. Hope that will help stabilize it. I'm going to make on side of the roof over hang out 3 or 4 feet so the chickens have a semi protected area in the winter and spring. I'm still undecided on the egg box...I am thinking I will just do one inside the coop. I'm going to make one side with large double doors for cleaning the coop. I don't think I'm going to do the deep litter method but I don't know...it's going to need a lot of litter with how large it is.

 

[leslea]

I do marketing/graphic design work too. So there are 4 of us in Indiana that also keep chickens? And at least two of us also keep silkies? What a small world! Anywho, hope to see everyone's designs, I think this is a great idea.

Oh, I don't really do it professionally. I made the shirts because they were needed and I stopped when other folks started making their own designs. And now I do all my own graphics work for my books, which works out great because cover designers and the graphic artists I've hired have taken notoriously long to finish work (I am a novelist). But...I'm never too busy to make a cute chicken graphic if I'm needed. I'd be totally happy to wear one made by any of our Indiana BYCers!!!

 

[leslea]

Oh hahahaha so young. Stella Liebeck is what her name was. Yeah poor old lady. All I can think of when I hear that is my mom being burned that badly and everyone mocking her for it

sad times. Lol ok enough threadjacking. Isn't it past your bed time, young CCCCCCCCHICKENS? Lol.

I read about this, too. It really opened my eyes to the propaganda people hire out to make their companies look good and the victims look bad. As though skin grafts on one's genitals wasn't enough victimization for that poor old lady.

 

[raisinemright]

I'm hoping to finish up the interior in the coop in prep for moving the little's into their new pallet palace. I'm also going to make a makeshift run so they can get used to coming and going. I'll keep my bigger girls doing what they do for now. (We are down to 4 layers?? Missing one for a few days. Just up and gone?!?) I'll need to he done nesting boxes built before I move the layers into it. What age should I expect eggs from my new chicks? I have. EE'ers, JG, BR, BO, Black Australorp's, RIR, WLH, Blue Cochins, SLW, GLW, Birchen Marans, I think that's it lol. Any ideas when each of these breeds start to lay?

 

[leslea]

atrueb00 ~ I was confused. I was thinking of you when I was responding to leslea who is a writer.

However, she might be a designer, too!

Seconding M2H re: the stress of building something (that part of the quote didn't show up!). We are only building a run to attach to an existing coop and it has given my husband a lot of stress. He's smart and able-bodied, but when it comes to building things that is not his area of expertise. If I were starting from scratch I think I would buy a shed large enough to walk into, too. I like the little coops I see at TSC and RK and the like, but they're too small.

There are some good YouTube vids that show handy people's coops being built, if you decide to go that way. It will def. give you some ideas. I pinned a few to my Backyard Chickens pinboard: http://www.pinterest.com/lesleatash/backyard-chickens/

I try to remember no matter what route I go, I can have 2 of the 3: cheap, fast, or good. In my experience, no matter what I bought/hired/did, it's rare to get all 3!

 

[pginsber]

Funny note...the brooder is in my office with the bator but I didn't want to use energy from my only power sources to power the heat lamp. Most are almost 3 weeks. Then I have the new bantys (6) of them in the same tub but in a tiny box..because they are tiny. Lol. Well if you remember one of babes from the last hatch has a crossed beak. Well so she isn't fighting for food I put her with the bantys. So power comes on I rush in to plug the bator back in and that cross beaked babe is wings spread out covering all 6 of those bantys! Talk about precious! Pic is blurry because I zoomed in so not to disturb them.

So any input on my temps fluctuating so much for almost 4 hours! ?!??!! I would really hope with how close to hatch they are they will be okay

How sweet of little Crossy to take care of her siblings. Pulls on the heart strings, doesn't it?