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

[sideWing]

That splint looks great, and that was an awesome hatch of shipped eggs in the Frankenbator. You promised us pics if the hatch was successful, so...

I just need a few days to get pics. Maybe I will install the fan first too.

So here's my question of the day!: what kind of watering system does everyone use? Is the nipple system the way to go? Can anyone recommend one for me to buy?

I use the cups and love them. I think I can get away without them freezing better here in Ut.

Ok, I have all kinds of chicken stories from the weekend.


Has anyone else noticed that when you search anything related to chickens, 95% of the hits are BYC threads?

That's how I ended up here in the first place. Couldn't search a chicken topic without hitting this site.

My other big news from the weekend is the flock swap.
My polish haven't been selling, and I have debated advertising the adult breeding flock. A woman called Saturday from my polish chick ad and said that her 13 year old son had one polish hen that he was showing in 4H, and wanted to start breeding some. She wanted to know if I had any adults available. After talking with her and her son, I decided to offer them Damien and 6 hens for $100. That's very cheap for laying hens, but I was ready to move on, and felt good about selling a breeding flock to an interested young man. They said they wanted them. I have been wanting purebred Ameraucanas for a while, but didn't have the pen space. I had not seen any good ones on CL, so I decided to check out the Ameraucana Clubs website to see if there were any breeders reasonably close, and there was on an hour away! I called her, and she said that she had 17 three week old BBS chicks that she had not advertised yet. I offered her $100 for all of them, and she accepted. So after a full afternoon of chicken swapping, I am the proud new owner of a flock of purebred ameraucanas. The chicks were :8 blue, 7 black, and 2 splash

Grat trade! I have EEs but I should probably upgrade to AMs.

In 2012, when I built this house, I purchased a 15KVA (Whole Home) generator with an automatic transfer switch. It cost me C$5000, and another $1000 to have it installed. It should be much cheaper in the U.S., and you may not have to pay as much as I did to get it installed since my house was still being wired. Anyway, now I don't even know the power goes off anymore (I have Uninterruptable Power Supplies on all my electronics).

Smart way to go.

I see you...

I live 45 minutes away from this resort.

That was definitely meant to be to go down that smoothly!

Now in my corner, I have this guy messaging me on a local Facebook swap page about poults. He wanted some Narragansett poults for his boys to raise as pets, then said nevermind he found turkeys for $7. I said great, they will enjoy eating them for Thanksgiving as they are likely Broad Breasted. A few days later he then asked the seller and found out yes, they are Broad Breasted, and now he expects me to:
1. Match the Broad Breasted price
2. Short another customer who has already scheduled a pick up
3. Deliver them to him 40 minutes away because he is having truck problems

And he's annoying as all get out on FB. I'm about to block him.

I call them bottom feeders. Not worth the time.

Maybe we can get NTBugTraq to come up with a CL reply filter. Call it "DooshTrac". You can even have that one for free, I won't trademark it

Ok, I have a question. Egg eating hens.....is there a way to break them? Do they need something added to their diet? Or do you just get rid of them?

I hear it can be fixed. Some folks increase calcium and add a few golf balls to the nests. A few pecks at the golf balls and they are cured.

Culling is usually necessary for the egg breaker, but the egg eaters (after broken) can usually be cured.

Put porcelain eggs in the nest, and collect the real ones VERY frequently. Pecking on a hard unbreakable egg gives them a headache.

Empty an egg by scrambling inside the shell and blowing it out, or find one already pecked open and open the hole and empty it out. Fill with mustard and put back where the egg was. If you add powdered alum the effect is even better. (It's often available in the spice section at the grocery, or at the pharmacy)

Use roll out or self collecting nests that don't allow the eggs to sit in plain sight.

A combination of methods may work.

Sound advice.

 

[sideWing]

The new group of EEs. Some should be barred. Some have wheaten.

 

[rossfam06]

Because they are all on the same diet. A hen who lays weak or no shell eggs has a problem with calcium metabolism or her shell glands, and should not be part of a breeding flock. Also, every time an egg breaks in the nest, it makes a nasty job of washing eggs that otherwise may not even need to be washed.

You did a nice job with those rescue birds. Tell me again where you got them, and how long you've had them? How many? Age?

My rooster does that all the time. He's quite the little home maker!

Regarding the toilet. I truly think that you've missed the mark by turning it into a dust bowl. You should plumb water to the tank, and it would be a self cleaning waterer. A flush a day would give them a nice clean water bowl!

A gentleman who lived within city limits was given 13 birds. He can only have 5 but he only wanted 4 because of his backyard. So I took them in because I live in the county. I have had them for a month now. I started out with 9 and now I am down to 6 because I sold 3 yesterday. He was unsure how old they are but they are just starting to get squeaky in their voices so I think they were about 9-10 weeks old when I got them. They were fully feathered and they still even cheep like chicks. LoL!!! Awkward teenage years.

 

[NTBugtraq]

This is fun!
I honestly believe that the Great War will be brought on by FB and Twitter.
He's not my baby daddy, he is my child's father!

Well, I was always the one to put the kibosh on fear mongering...dispelling rumors and such. The two issues I described demolished the concept of "perimeter", which is what security is based on. Think, why are private contractors necessary in a war zone amidst your own Army? Cause even among your Army, the perimeter is porous. So the question now is not when they will break in, but what are they going to do in the future now that they're in. All we can do is hope we remain less interesting than other targets. Do I really want to make a post using @scflock 's handle? Nah, he's too fun as himself...;-]

 

[scflock]

Well, I was always the one to put the kibosh on fear mongering...dispelling rumors and such. The two issues I described demolished the concept of "perimeter", which is what security is based on. Think, why are private contractors necessary in a war zone amidst your own Army? Cause even among your Army, the perimeter is porous. So the question now is not when they will break in, but what are they going to do in the future now that they're in. All we can do is hope we remain less interesting than other targets. Do I really want to make a post using @scflock
's handle? Nah, he's too fun as himself...;-]

I get your point, and that's scary. You start doing that crap and I will bail like lightning

 

[FridayYet]

But it could be really hilarious...........................

 

[NTBugtraq]

I don't get your point, that's not scary. You start doing that crap and I will love it like lighting

In my MMORPG, I have such a reputation that there are 5 other players who sign on with my name, but with one character changed, and say all sorts of dumb stuff. I am regularly asked how I play 24 x 7...

 

[sideWing]

I get your point, and that's scary. You start doing that crap and I will bail like lightning

Which one of your identities will bail?

I don't want to go down a rabbit hole, but I think medical health records are going to be a disaster. ALL data will be hacked. It just will.

 

[scflock]

But it could be really hilarious...........................

There's already another nice and helpful guy that posts under my handle on other threads. I' wondered who that was

 

[scflock]

Which one of your identities will bail? 

I don't want to go down a rabbit hole, but I think medical health records are going to be a disaster. ALL data will be hacked. It just will.

Are you sure you aren't from South Carolina? It's all Obama's fault