She said/He said Who's right? Who's wrong? No one!

[scflock]

She didn't say she tried the LG first. She said she loved it especially after trying it.... (She could have tried the LG after starting with the Brinsea...there, broke it down for you...lol)

Touche
For now...

 

[AmyLynn2374]

Touche
For now...

 

[holm25]

Today is actually hatch day for me. I lost my first chick to pip yesterday. It pipped on the wrong side of the egg and rightn into a vein and i am pretty sure it drown. But im not going to complain it is the first chick i have lost that i hatched. At 10 38 last night i watched one hatch and it lived!! And at 5 48 this morning i watched another hatch. And after that anoth hatched but i didn't see it. I now have 16 pipped and 20 more to go!!

 

[AmyLynn2374]

Today is actually hatch day for me. I lost my first chick to pip yesterday. It pipped on the wrong side of the egg and rightn into a vein and i am pretty sure it drown. But im not going to complain it is the first chick i have lost that i hatched. At 10 38 last night i watched one hatch and it lived!! And at 5 48 this morning i watched another hatch. And after that anoth hatched but i didn't see it. I now have 16 pipped and 20 more to go!!

You're going to be on chick overload!!!! lol I had 32 hatchers and surviors out of my last hatch and I am still trying to sort some of them out...lol

 

[scflock]

what if that predator you kill has babies out there that are waiting for their mom to return, if you kill her, you're killing all her babies too because they will starve.

You say that like it's a bad thing. I trapped and shot a fox. When I rolled her over, she was obviously nursing. The way I look at it, that was at least 6 or seven taken out of hunting my ground
Don't feel sorry for this:

When it turns into this:

 

[holm25]

You say that like it's a bad thing. I trapped and shot a fox. When I rolled her over, she was obviously nursing. The way I look at it, that was at least 6 or seven taken out of hunting my ground
Don't feel sorry for this:

When it turns into this:

X2

 

[scflock]

X2

 

[WalnutHill]

You say that like it's a bad thing. I trapped and shot a fox. When I rolled her over, she was obviously nursing. The way I look at it, that was at least 6 or seven taken out of hunting my ground
Don't feel sorry for this:

When it turns into this:

x3

 

[holm25]

 

[WVduckchick]

And you didn't call me out yet? I'm shocked.

As I just convinced my husband a few months ago to get chickens (and he's still not fully on board) I have not made an incubator yet. YET! I have this weird compulsion to make things to supposedly 'save' money. And I like doing it. I probably use the tools more than him and I have to say the cordless drill is the best fathers day present I ever got him.

We built our own coop. I had grand delusions of how cheap it would be and even gathered scrap materials from my FIL and from work. Still all and all I think we're at around $500. Which isn't terrible but not my goal either. The wire for the run just arrived last weekend so that's next.

My next step is to scoop up a rooster so I can have fertile eggs for hatching.

Then I'll probably build an incubator and aim for world domination.

Oh yes, isn't it funny how you think it would be much cheaper to build it yourself, then by the time its done, it has cost more than you could have bought it? LOL My husband has great tools, and is in the camp that there's no need to buy "cheap" ones that break, so he likes expensive ones. Now he actually keeps buying me tools, because I kept scarfing his, but most of his are too big, heavy, and bulky for me. (I must admit, I had a lot of my own tools when we got married too) My jig saw broke the other day. We were in Lowe's and they had one marked "clearance". It was a nice one. It looked like a return and the saleman assured me if there was a problem with it, I could return it. So we bought it. It was brand new, and I figured out that it was a model that one of the local Lowe's stocks, but another doesn't, so someone bought it at one store and returned it to another without even opening it. $189 - marked down to $52! Yeah me!!
We were quickly adding up how much we have spent on pens, lumber, fencing... eggs, incubator... lol And it sure adds up! Then he says "And why have I still not gotten my post-hole digger?" Cause all the money is going into the chickens, and we don't even get eggs yet! LOL But he sure does love watching the chickens!