Mama Heating Pad in the Brooder (Picture Heavy) - UPDATE

[Pattycat]

Gee, sure can't tell if your excited or not!

I think you'll be very happy. Ken asked me this afternoon where the heat lamp was - he was working in one little corner of the garage and didn't want to break out the Big Buddy so he thought he'd just plug that in. He had to break out the Big Buddy anyway.....I have no clue where the heat lamp is, and I LIKE it that way!

Hee hee! I have hated the heat lamp the whole time. When I started with chicks I thought about using a heating pad, but didn't know how to go about it.... I can't contain my glee that I don't have to worry about the bulb losing its redness after a week or worry about temp changes and if the lamps are too close to the chicks. I am looking forward to the chicks being self regulated. I love my chickie choos and can't wait to see how well they do. You are a genius, even if you just brought this into mainstream for us to all think about.

 

[eagrbeavr]

I'm loving this. I'll post a pic of the brooder some other time. Too busy chillaxin. Long day.

Thanks again for the inspiration

 

[lazy gardener]

I just ordered my Sunbeam "MHP!" I hope to get my 4 Buff Orpington chicks around 24 March. I like this idea much better than the heat lamp. This is my first foray into raising chickens, since I left home many years ago. BOs sounded like a good, quiet breed to have in a small yard with close neighbors. Thanks Blooie!

Welcome to BYC, GardenNut! After you get your feet wet with chicken stuff, you must join us on some of the gardening threads. I am still in awe that there are other women who think like me! For nearly 60 years, I thought I was one of a kind, till I met BYC!!!

They are not rats, we have no rats here, the mice scared them away.

I field dressed a mouse just last week, after I caught him trying to take a rooster. He dressed out at 112 pounds! we should get a good years worth of mouse steaks and roasts from him.



Scouts honor, really its true...

Now, Ralph. Your mouses may be big, but, me thinks you boast too much. We have black flies that easily double that size. The proof of that matter is this: Last spring, I saw a black fly taking flight with one of those giant mouses gripped with his feet. It was not a pretty sight, with that mouse writhing around, trying to get loose. His tail whipping around did some damage to my lilac hedge. But the most awesome part of this sighting was that this black fly had an other one of your giant mouses gripped in his jaws. During black fly season, it's imperative that we wear clothing with huge pockets, and that we fill all of those pockets with boulders. I've made good progress on a stone wall at the back border of my property: Every evening, when it cools down enough that the black flies go dormant, I can then take those boulders out of my pocket and put them in the stone wall. I thank God that He gave us an abundant supply of boulders here in Maine. Without them, the population of hale and hardy Maine people would dwindle to the weak, white pasty souls who don't venture outside into the spring sunshine. And we all know that that would be "survival of the fittest" in reverse.

 

[duluthralphie]

Welcome to BYC, GardenNut! After you get your feet wet with chicken stuff, you must join us on some of the gardening threads. I am still in awe that there are other women who think like me! For nearly 60 years, I thought I was one of a kind, till I met BYC!!!

Now, Ralph. Your mouses may be big, but, me thinks you boast too much. We have black flies that easily double that size. The proof of that matter is this: Last spring, I saw a black fly taking flight with one of those giant mouses gripped with his feet. It was not a pretty sight, with that mouse writhing around, trying to get loose. His tail whipping around did some damage to my lilac hedge. But the most awesome part of this sighting was that this black fly had an other one of your giant mouses gripped in his jaws. During black fly season, it's imperative that we wear clothing with huge pockets, and that we fill all of those pockets with boulders. I've made good progress on a stone wall at the back border of my property: Every evening, when it cools down enough that the black flies go dormant, I can then take those boulders out of my pocket and put them in the stone wall. I thank God that He gave us an abundant supply of boulders here in Maine. Without them, the population of hale and hardy Maine people would dwindle to the weak, white pasty souls who don't venture outside into the spring sunshine. And we all know that that would be "survival of the fittest" in reverse.

We have those black flies too! I think it is north woods thing. I did not want to mention them, as some people were having trouble with the size of the northern mice.

 

[Blooie]

Oh yeah? OH YEAH??? Well, do you know what we call mosquitoes here in Wyoming? Teeth with Wings! Yep, they can take on your little mousasuarases and black fly mousasauruses eaters and WIN! (Oh, I feel so much better.)

 

[member 373180]

Cute, cute, cute!  Your dues are indeed paid!  Ain't it grand, @eagrbeavr
 ?  Sure simplifies life and "the chicks really dig it."  (I've been wanting to say that for a year - managed to refrain until just now. Sigh)

Oh yeah?  OH YEAH???  Well, do you know what we call mosquitoes here in Wyoming?  Teeth with Wings!  Yep, they can take on your little mousasuarases and black fly mousasauruses eaters and WIN!  (Oh, I feel so much better.)

Hey Blooie, are ya enjoying those little pills they gave you when you left the hospital?

 

[Blooie]

Hey Blooie, are ya enjoying those little pills they gave you when you left the hospital?

Well, truth be told I'd much rather have a cigarette, but these are doing nicely, thanks!!

 

[beautifulpirate]

I would say that @duluthralphie
 is probably dealing with ROUSes.  Rodents of unusual size,  Ralphie do you live near a fire swamp?

Carrie

Did we just become best friends?! Lol

Fun fact- rats are just another variety of mouse actually.

 

[lazy gardener]

Now, Blooie... Me thinks that your little buzzing Wyoming skeeters got nothing on our North woods skeeters. Everybody knows that skeeters don't have teeth. Them's horse flies, deer flies, stable flies, and moose flies. Those buzzards will chew an arm or leg off if you don't see them coming. It's best to have rear view mirrors mounted to your hat from ice out till hard freeze. But, skeeters: They have a proboscis that is a sight to behold. About twice the length and diameter of one of them McDonald's McFlurry straw/spoons. I've seen well equipped skeeters that have such a weapon on their front end that they can hardly lift off. And the drone of a bunch of them flying in formation. Last season, they broke the sound barrier.

 

[Blooie]

Nope. Our skeeters have wings....stuck right on the end of that 2 foot long proboscis. I know on accounta one bit me one time and left a molar behind.

Those other pesky flying things you mentioned are scared of our skeeters too!