**~~>>Second Annual Cinco de Mayo Turkey Hatchathon<<~~**all poultry welcome!

[Sally Sunshine]

Quote: Right now I have the worry over the stupid insurance company coming on a "routine" visit to take exterior photos, don't ask me why we have been here only 2 years!
and I am a worrier, will they complain about this or that, I have a very nice small place, even the coops are nice and everything is well thought out, I already have 4 runs I cant possibly make another. I need to be able to reach it with hosing too. I could cry and scream at the same time! rant rant rant!

 

[yinepu]

Quote: Right now I have the worry over the stupid insurance company coming on a "routine" visit to take exterior photos, don't ask me why we have been here only 2 years!
and I am a worrier, will they complain about this or that, I have a very nice small place, even the coops are nice and everything is well thought out, I already have 4 runs I cant possibly make another. I need to be able to reach it with hosing too. I could cry and scream at the same time! rant rant rant!

well.. sounds like you have 2 choices.. either get rid of the drake.. or cage him out of sight (in the coop perhaps?) when the inspector is there if you are worried about the inspector raising an eyebrow over a rampaging hormonal drake being caged for the good of the flock. .

 

[HEChicken]

Right now I have the worry over the stupid insurance company coming on a "routine" visit to take exterior photos, don't ask me why we have been here only 2 years!
and I am a worrier, will they complain about this or that, I have a very nice small place, even the coops are nice and everything is well thought out, I already have 4 runs I cant possibly make another. I need to be able to reach it with hosing too. I could cry and scream at the same time! rant rant rant!

I wouldn't worry about the insurance company. They like to come out and make sure you aren't doing anything with the property that will increase its risk. For example, if you have one of the breeds of dog on their dangerous breeds list, they could drop you. Or if you added a sliding glass door, that will up your premium. New buildings may increase the amount of your premium if you want them covered on your policy. So if you want your coop(s) covered, they will see them and add to your premium; if not, you can elect not to have them covered. As long as they don't pose a risk to the property that IS being covered (example, shared roof and you use heat lamps in the coop that could potentially set the whole house on fire), you can elect to have them not covered and it won't change a thing.

Also, you can appeal anything. I recently had an insurance inspector come out and the next thing I knew I got a letter saying my premium was increasing because the sq. ft of the house was higher than I had stated. I showed them the property tax records indicating the sq. footage I am paying taxes on, told them that is the figure I had used, and my agent sent it into the higher ups and my appeal was successful on the grounds that if the county assesses property taxes on the lower number, it is likely to be accurate since the county wants to collect all the property taxes it can. They also tried to add on an addition for my "sliding glass door". I pointed out it is a French door. Told them I can take pictures of it opening or they can come out and walk through it if they want to. They took off the addendum for that too.

Last resort - you can always change insurance companies.

What about building some hoop coops to separate out your species at breeding time? I recently built one and plan to build a second, thinking to put turkeys in one and ducks in another during breeding season. They go together fast, are sturdy, don't cost that much to build, and look good (IMHO).

 

[yinepu]

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I love my hoop coops! (even have a link in my signature.. lol)

 

[coldupnorth]

Quote:
I love my hoop coops! (even have a link in my signature.. lol)
Love my hoop coop that we made last year! Works really well and easy to make. We made it usable for winter by making a hay bale hut inside with an insulated cover roof. Lost some square footage, but it kept the bird fairly warm in the very cold winter we've been having. If our temps ever start getting warmer, the hay bales will come out and the birds will have more room to move. We are planning on doing another this summer to move into the fenced garden area once the garden is done. Of course, I will need this snow to melt away so that I can actually have a garden this year.

 

[Pkillian]

I would like to participate too, am I too late?

 

[Sally Sunshine]

Quote: Right now I have the worry over the stupid insurance company coming on a "routine" visit to take exterior photos, don't ask me why we have been here only 2 years!
and I am a worrier, will they complain about this or that, I have a very nice small place, even the coops are nice and everything is well thought out, I already have 4 runs I cant possibly make another. I need to be able to reach it with hosing too. I could cry and scream at the same time! rant rant rant!

well.. sounds like you have 2 choices.. either get rid of the drake.. or cage him out of sight (in the coop perhaps?) when the inspector is there if you are worried about the inspector raising an eyebrow over a rampaging hormonal drake being caged for the good of the flock. .
LOL, no just a worry wart, thinking they will say I cant have my birds or something.

 

[chiques chicks]

Eggs still incubating..... Wait wait wait... Maybe I'll candle at 14 days, thats a week from now.

 

[Manningjw]

Late last night i set the eggs in the incubator!

I violated the rule of not adjusting the temperature because when I came home from getting the eggs, the temp max was 102.2 and low was 99.4ish in my circulated incubator. After stabilizing over night, the temp max was 102.0 and low 99.3, which is within the safe margin but a bit on the high side for a circulating air incubator.

I believe I selected at least 7 maybe as many as 10 eggs of the type of cross I wanted out of a total of 18 eggs. Hoping to get at least 4 of those to hatch

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[Sally Sunshine]

Quote: Thank you so much, you have eased this part of my brains thinking! I just hate that they don't set up an appointment, its at their leisure! I think its an invasion of privacy!