Maine

[MEMama3]

I made a little video of one of the chicks hatching (followed by chick pics) if anyone is interested:

 

[IZZYBELLA]

I made a little video of one of the chicks hatching (followed by chick pics) if anyone is interested:

Very cute! Congrats on the hatch!

 

[lazy gardener]

Very nice MeMama3. Good hatch.

 

[MustardTiger]

Congrats on all the hatching going on! For some reason I find the idea of hatching with an incubator a little scary. I hope to have a broody at some point and try and have her hatch out some eggs. I know I could google this - but I trust the info I get here : how can I tell if the eggs I collect are fertile? I mean the ones I intend to eat...it is my first season having grown out roos so I really dont know what I am looking for.

NCR - We are collecting quotes to have our house painted. Am I nuts for thinking that $4000 to paint my house is an insanely high price??! I have worked a lot with exterior painting in the past (large scale murals) so I know my way around this stuff. I was trying to avoid the labor of doing it ourselves but with quotes like that...sheesh. I am going to rent some scaffold and get to it! My house is not a hard job either. Nearly no trim and no tricky architectural stuff. The current paint is in really good shape too - just ugly. Here is what it looks like:


just a boring split level gah!

 

[TAMMACLEAN]

Congrats on all the hatching going on! For some reason I find the idea of hatching with an incubator a little scary. I hope to have a broody at some point and try and have her hatch out some eggs. I know I could google this - but I trust the info I get here : how can I tell if the eggs I collect are fertile? I mean the ones I intend to eat...it is my first season having grown out roos so I really dont know what I am looking for. NCR - We are collecting quotes to have our house painted. Am I nuts for thinking that $4000 to paint my house is an insanely high price??! I have worked a lot with exterior painting in the past (large scale murals) so I know my way around this stuff. I was trying to avoid the labor of doing it ourselves but with quotes like that...sheesh. I am going to rent some scaffold and get to it! My house is not a hard job either. Nearly no trim and no tricky architectural stuff. The current paint is in really good shape too - just ugly. Here is what it looks like: just a boring split level gah!

Where are you located? I know someone who paints and if you're no that far he can come and give you a quote.

 

[Branch Chickens]

Congrats on all the hatching going on! For some reason I find the idea of hatching with an incubator a little scary. I hope to have a broody at some point and try and have her hatch out some eggs. I know I could google this - but I trust the info I get here : how can I tell if the eggs I collect are fertile? I mean the ones I intend to eat...it is my first season having grown out roos so I really dont know what I am looking for.

NCR - We are collecting quotes to have our house painted. Am I nuts for thinking that $4000 to paint my house is an insanely high price??! I have worked a lot with exterior painting in the past (large scale murals) so I know my way around this stuff. I was trying to avoid the labor of doing it ourselves but with quotes like that...sheesh. I am going to rent some scaffold and get to it! My house is not a hard job either. Nearly no trim and no tricky architectural stuff. The current paint is in really good shape too - just ugly. Here is what it looks like:


just a boring split level gah!

If I were you, I would paint it myself. $4000 sounds high for something like that. Did they tell you how many days/hours they thought it would take? I was just wondering how they came up with that number. Did that include materials?
Oh, and I love your garden.

 

[lazy gardener]

MT, beautiful garden... And you may say your house is just a booring split level, but it's yours! Ain't nothing boring about that with those beautiful flowers spilling down that bank. What color are you going with? If I were in your shoes, and had the physical stamina and could scrape the time together, I'd paint it myself, and take at least $3K of that estimate to the bank!!!

 

[SanCarlos6127]

Congrats on all the hatching going on! For some reason I find the idea of hatching with an incubator a little scary. I hope to have a broody at some point and try and have her hatch out some eggs. I know I could google this - but I trust the info I get here : how can I tell if the eggs I collect are fertile? I mean the ones I intend to eat...it is my first season having grown out roos so I really dont know what I am looking for.

NCR - We are collecting quotes to have our house painted. Am I nuts for thinking that $4000 to paint my house is an insanely high price??! I have worked a lot with exterior painting in the past (large scale murals) so I know my way around this stuff. I was trying to avoid the labor of doing it ourselves but with quotes like that...sheesh. I am going to rent some scaffold and get to it! My house is not a hard job either. Nearly no trim and no tricky architectural stuff. The current paint is in really good shape too - just ugly. Here is what it looks like:


just a boring split level gah!

You're probably looking at approx 15 gallons of primer, and 15 gallons of paint, plus a couple gallons to do trim, It would be a lot cheaper just to buy/rent a sprayer and even use a ladder... I bought my cheap wagner sprayer that would handle 5 gal buckets for a little over $100, and back then paint was around $80/5gal bucket. If you don't need to do a lot of scraping it should only take a couple days to do it. Taping off the windows and doors will take most of your time, Spraying goes super quick with a real sprayer!

 

[quailtrail]

Ughhh...so after candeling eggs last night I recheck the temp and humidity before going to bed. It was down to 20% I added some water and nothing. ..added a bit more and it started to rise...well checked this am and 20% again. I decided to compare with the humidity gauge I had in the other incubator. ...65% omg I want to cry!!! I hope they will be ok????

 

[IZZYBELLA]

Congrats on all the hatching going on! For some reason I find the idea of hatching with an incubator a little scary. I hope to have a broody at some point and try and have her hatch out some eggs. I know I could google this - but I trust the info I get here : how can I tell if the eggs I collect are fertile? I mean the ones I intend to eat...it is my first season having grown out roos so I really dont know what I am looking for.

NCR - We are collecting quotes to have our house painted. Am I nuts for thinking that $4000 to paint my house is an insanely high price??! I have worked a lot with exterior painting in the past (large scale murals) so I know my way around this stuff. I was trying to avoid the labor of doing it ourselves but with quotes like that...sheesh. I am going to rent some scaffold and get to it! My house is not a hard job either. Nearly no trim and no tricky architectural stuff. The current paint is in really good shape too - just ugly. Here is what it looks like:

just a boring split level gah!

MT - you and I aren't located far from each other and painting is outrageous around here! We decided last year to do the front of our house and garage ourselves (with major help from my handy dad!). We got a wagner sprayer, which I highly recommend. Just be sure to cover your windows and anything else you don't want painted, because that sucker sprays hard and the wind carries little drops of paint in directions you would never guess! Haven't decided what we're going to do this year with the back of our house... it is much harder to reach with a ladder... but I just can't bring myself to pay what we were quoted!