Okies in the BYC The Original

[nnbreeder]

I actually think that the judging starts at 9am but I am not sure about that. It often goes into the next day as well depending on the birds and number of judges. The awards used to be given out Sun. about noon.

 

[al6517]

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Sounds good, I think I have run off most of the die hards off, they tire quickly LOL. They had me goin for a bit.

AL

 

[Buckguy20]

Sorry Al, I was doing some family things. I have to get my timing down. Looks like I ran the women off which by the way they were acting tonight is a good thing.

Al I don't have any Buttercup hens but I have Gold Campines. They look a lot alike.

 

[bigokie37]

they are righ at the top of the banks.but i did see a couple of the lower roads are 4 foot deep on them.people were fishin in their boats in the middle of the road.good catfishin when they are like that
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[faerielady]

Apparently my homemade incubator's fritzy-ness cost me the entire load of eggs in there. Finally tally... none made it. *sigh*

I'm thinking I may just need to give up on the eggs thing, but I've already purchased eggs from CJExotic (silkies). Now I have no idea what to do. I can't afford to buy an incubator, but have already spent too much on this "chick bator", so can't justify spending any more.

 

[okiechick57]

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I love those birds

 

[al6517]

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What exactly went wrong??.

AL

 

[artsyrobin]

hey guys- anyone want my BR roo? mr attitude is just pushing his luck too far- came out of the run today ready to attack... don't want him to be someones dinner, but he needs to go....

 

[Okla-doodle-doo]

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Dandelion Those are sharp looking moderns. They really grow on you don't they! I just figured out my new "pair" is both boys! I think I will try my hand at dubbing and if they live then I will look for some mates. They are really funny to watch.

Stimmpy and Q--- Sounds like one of you is too sweet and the other isn't sweet enough! Take care and hope you both level out real soon. Its not something to mess with.

Worked all morning moveing one of my hutch pens to another location. It wasn't getting any sunlight shinning in it. So I moved it so they can catch the morning sun and warm up. Did you catch those news pics of the snow up north and out west. Boy I'd like to have some of that. We don't get hardly any here in Tn.

Guess I'll be on the road to Ok. on Thursday!Whupee!

 

[faerielady]

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Lessee... what didn't?

After I finally got the thermostat to quit swinging wildly, then the lamp fixture started to overheat. So I changed it out, thinking maybe I got a bad one. Didn't take more than an hour... but it was still an hour. Then THAT one started to overheat (it would start flickering, and when it was flickering it was rapidly losing temp). Then I apparently screwed up the placement of a hole for a tube for water flow... cut it wrong, so the water ended up on the bottom of the bator.

Then, with the weather going up/down/up/frozen tundra landscape, the bator stopped keeping temp. It's in my living room against the far wall (nowhere near a door) on a table, so off the floor and out of the draft zone by a long shot. Still couldn't maintain the temp after it spiked to 103ish.

So between completely unstable humidity, two lamp fixtures that overheated, a blown bulb and it's replacement, a replacement thermostat (when I replaced the light fixture, I replaced the thermostat too), and the time/hassle/money spent on eggs, plus the original materials that I bought to make it in the first place, this thing cost me as much as a new lower model Hova-Bator (around $100). I should have just bit the bullet and bought the Hova-Bator 2362N with egg turner off eBay brand new.

No, I haven't been able to find out that I could refurbish like a cabinet bator or whatever on Craigslist. The only time I saw one was when I was broke and couldn't buy it anyway... and while I love my fiancee, fixing anything electronic isn't his forte... *especially* if I want it to actually *work* when he's done with it. He could build an entire city, but he won't touch electronics of any kind to troubleshoot/fix.

I should stop whining. I'm just in a very poor mood over this... probably because I got off work after 14 hours (8 hours one job, 6 hours at the other), just to find out that all the eggs had really quit (they were due on Saturday).

Great. I had to go and write a novel.