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I think I saw them at lowes for $1.09 or something close to that for a 6ft extension cord... no work really and I think the plug would cost that much don't you? Might even find them on sale the green ones anyway for 1/2 price now
I am going to make a box with one side open and put the flexwatt at the top so they can go in and out. I thought that was a great idea she had. 11" flexwatt should keep it nice and toasty
If this works as well as I think, everything will get converted!
BTW the Fidge... was a SCAM! No biggie... I have wood and insulation ready to go!
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Here is an idea/ concept that I have been thinking of using on the next brooder set up I build. It will be on a smaller scale but I like the concept of warming just an isolated area for the chicks and its energy effeciency.
Give it a gander.... (scroll down past the Coop section)
It's amazing the simplest things have worked for hundreds of years, and we have to make them better!
I woke up to a nasty rain, hopefully can get more pics.
Rumplessness can happen in the Marans and I have seen it happen here in one of my own flocks. Don't know much about it, but know it has been around for a while. My Bill Sr. crossed over one of my original birds (that I do not have anymore, nor do I have any offspring from her either) that was a mix of Presley/Jeane lines produced a rumpless little splash gal. I have no clue if it came from Bill or from the dam, but has never popped up since, but then I haven't had that bird to cross Bill back to for a long time to see if it would happen again.
Will say give me rumplessness, a white feather, dark eyes, and a thumbprint in the comb anyday, verses the pretty little flowery comb.
SPEAKING of pretty little comb suprises........I found the dreaded comb on one of my little 4 week old Birchen cockerels yesterday.
Note to All~
By the way.......after alot more research and hoping after a couple more emails are answered (so that I know my terminology is correct)...that I can comfortably say that we have been wrongly calling it the carnation comb, when all along it is just side sprigs, like our very dear Snowbird stated they were several months ago.
(Don~ I am sooooooo sorry I didn't heed that when you said it.)
Rumplessness can happen in the Marans and I have seen it happen here in one of my own flocks. Don't know much about it, but know it has been around for a while. My Bill Sr. crossed over one of my original birds (that I do not have anymore, nor do I have any offspring from her either) that was a mix of Presley/Jeane lines produced a rumpless little splash gal. I have no clue if it came from Bill or from the dam, but has never popped up since, but then I haven't had that bird to cross Bill back to for a long time to see if it would happen again.
Will say give me rumplessness, a white feather, dark eyes, and a thumbprint in the comb anyday, verses the pretty little flowery comb.
SPEAKING of pretty little comb suprises........I found the dreaded comb on one of my little 4 week old Birchen cockerels yesterday.
Note to All~
By the way.......after alot more research and hoping after a couple more emails are answered (so that I know my terminology is correct)...that I can comfortably say that we have been wrongly calling it the carnation comb, when all along it is just side sprigs, like our very dear Snowbird stated they were several months ago.
(Don~ I am sooooooo sorry I didn't heed that when you said it.)
Raven~ Check your Birchens!
Mornin' Kim
Its still crappy its sprigs, but for some reason it makes me feel a bit better...I haven't read through the whole thing you sent me on email yesterday...I started, but just couldn't soak up anything. I finally gave up and went to bed right after dinner. Its just been a really stressful last couple of weeks and think I'm starting to crash. I'll try reading it again today when I get back from work. I'm hoping it will help how I approach deciding what to do with those other girls in that pen of youngsters where I found my lovely surprise. Think based on your research, its worth doing some test mating for those girls that visibly show nothing to see what's going on with them?
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OH yeah! That's right! You have babers coming! What ever happened to that really disgusting one you showed a pic of? I have never seen anything like that in my life
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OH yeah! That's right! You have babers coming! What ever happened to that really disgusting one you showed a pic of? I have never seen anything like that in my life
I put that one in the woodstove after I opened it up to see what was going....it was dead. It was pretty gross, I admit. Glad I caught it before it caused more issues all over the other eggs if it was going to.
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OH yeah! That's right! You have babers coming! What ever happened to that really disgusting one you showed a pic of? I have never seen anything like that in my life
I put that one in the woodstove after I opened it up to see what was going....it was dead. It was pretty gross, I admit. Glad I caught it before it caused more issues all over the other eggs if it was going to.
sorry...I was getting ready for work. I have to agree...that's one of my biggest fears...that one of these days there will be an egg that goes bad while cooking and will explode in the incubator!
Rumplessness can happen in the Marans and I have seen it happen here in one of my own flocks. Don't know much about it, but know it has been around for a while. My Bill Sr. crossed over one of my original birds (that I do not have anymore, nor do I have any offspring from her either) that was a mix of Presley/Jeane lines produced a rumpless little splash gal. I have no clue if it came from Bill or from the dam, but has never popped up since, but then I haven't had that bird to cross Bill back to for a long time to see if it would happen again.
Will say give me rumplessness, a white feather, dark eyes, and a thumbprint in the comb anyday, verses the pretty little flowery comb.
SPEAKING of pretty little comb suprises........I found the dreaded comb on one of my little 4 week old Birchen cockerels yesterday.
Note to All~
By the way.......after alot more research and hoping after a couple more emails are answered (so that I know my terminology is correct)...that I can comfortably say that we have been wrongly calling it the carnation comb, when all along it is just side sprigs, like our very dear Snowbird stated they were several months ago.
(Don~ I am sooooooo sorry I didn't heed that when you said it.)
Raven~ Check your Birchens!
I strongly disagree with the idea that these "things" are just side sprigs! They may work like sprigs, but these combs are more like a mutation. I have a nice, triangular side sprig here on Blue Butt, it's a good size, and obviously a sprig. The thing connecting the Carnations are the other factors that these birds carry as well, such as feather shafting. Blue butt, with the sprig has NO feather shafting. JR with the moderate Carnation has slight feather shafting. Muttley, with the huge, tree looking comb has LOTS of feather shafting! So does his sister with the same type of comb on a smaller scale. Another thing I wondered about in that e-mail you sent with the Leghorns; they talked about a lot of small hatches, and high mortality rates. Now granted, that article was written some years ago, like the 30s? So mortality must have been common back then with the lesser incubators of the day, BUT, could there possibly be a "lethal" gene connection with these combs too?? I wonder why I have such small hatches, and yet such a high percentage of these combs? It's obvious, it has nothing to do with the sex chromosomes, as I have both sexes with the comb, but has anyone thought about the lethal aspect? At first, I thought it was my newbie hatching abilities, but after the great Silkie hatch I had (14 out of 17 shipped eggs), I am beginning to wonder why my best Marans hatch has been 5! That's with shipped eggs and my own eggs, FIVE! Something else to ponder I guess.
