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[AmyLynn2374]

That's what I was going to do!!! Have my hubs be the rooster and myself the hen and Chyler be a chick and Stella an egg!!! Lol!!!

Had to edit that and take out the roo.

Sorry. My mind doesn't remember things well these days.

There are some adorable chick and egg costumes out there! That would be so cute!

 

[rossfam06]

Had to edit that and take out the roo. :/  Sorry. My mind doesn't remember things well these days.

There are some adorable chick and egg costumes out there! That would be so cute!

Good catch. I am going to be searching and if I can't find it I will make it!!!

 

[AmyLynn2374]

I like the little "egg" in this one:

And so many chicks:

Look, it's a silkie:

 

[AmyLynn2374]

Ugh!! My last pic isn't showing up!

 

[kwhites634]

Good catch.

I am going to be searching and if I can't find it I will make it!!!

You need to train your tamest hen to walk on a leash & take her along.

 

[chicapee]

LMAO!!!

I didn't think you were cockney, but I was betting sc would sound more like redneck/cockney than anything else...

I can hear it in my head. It is very painful. I am afraid.

You guys know how my mind works. It would be a blend of Monty Python , Benny Hill and Duck Dynasty

Like I said painful!!!

Honest to goodness, if it weren't for The Holy Grail I'd have no idea what a pram was. There's a scene where they are singing in the castle, and one of the lines is "I have to push the pram a lot"
I had to look it up

LOLOl

Godnight, y'all. Enjoy your GNO

Night Night Bucko!

Thanks SC - Still recovering from culling 2 chickens, letting the wine take the edge off it. (I don't do death well.)

Cheers. Sorry you had to cull.

Do they go to freezer camp or 6 feet under?

Is it bad to

you and say "cheers" at the same time?!

Was it the mean rooster?

Ditto!

Thanks. Anyone have special plans for the holiday weekend?

Tomorrow I have a practice to see if our "womens team" has enough people to put together a Model T at the state fair in a few weeks. I have never put together any car before, so it will be fun learning. Not sure if the team has enough people of a "running and lifting age" since many members are seniors.

Nope, I wish my daughter was visiting. But she isn't. So I will probably have to weed the garden instead. I hope you have fun with your team.

With all the overthinking, why didn't I think to do a dry run? Well, a wet run, but eggless? Be right back...

OK, so... Since this is an older Octagon 10 (2001, I think Walnut said?) there aren't actually any channels. The wells are in the end of the tray that comes out first (it's a side-loader), so you don't have to pull it out far to add water. For the dry run, I just took the tray to the sink and used the faucet to fill one of the two wells to the top (I'll need to find something else to use when I'm actually using the incubator, I know)--since the wells are next to each other, the first tilt will pour the excess into the empty one. After tilting to the first slanted face and putting everything back flat, I've determined that the wells won't overflow as long as the water is 1/4 inch below the top. Tilted it the other way, just to be sure. Yep, dry under the tray

Before I pulled the tray out and filled the well, I put the Octagon onto its vertical faces. That would make eggs sitting upright in the tray fully horizontal--that feels like too big of a change to me, for a turn. I seem to remember reading somewhere that you want the full range of motion to cover 90 degrees, and traversing from one vertical face to the other would give you 180--even if it does take 4 turning sessions to get there (if you skip the bottom--5 if you don't). Once I actually saw what it looked like turned that far, I felt dumb for not being able to quite visualize that.

I'll have to do a dry run with humidity levels later--my current dual thermometer/hygrometer is in a housing that's larger than the tray

When I'd bought it, I was going for supplies for an emergency cooler 'bator, in case Frieda abandoned this clutch as she had the last (due to being ages before I got her eggs), so I was going for inexpensive and ability to use elsewhere as well as accuracy (did both the ice water and the salt test, and, while I don't remember how much it was off, it was something like >3 degrees and >5%).

This is a very good plan.

So quick question on my first hatching. The first chick to hatch keeps walking around (stumbling) into all the other eggs and moving them. Is this okay or do I need to move it to thr broading box?

Welcome! I usually wait until there is 2 and move them together. Congrats on the babies!

Thanks Ross!

DH feels bad when I cry, so he asked "are you sure you want to keep doing all this chicken stuff"? I told him I would feel better if I could put some eggs in the incubator and he threw a dishtowel at me!

Love it, save that for Ron!

So I HAVE to share a pic that has nothing to do with chickens. My son has gotten into Godzilla and King Kong and all that and decided he wanted to be Godzilla for Halloween this year. I let him pick his costume and we ordered it Tuesday. It got here today so we had to try it on and check it out and make sure everything worked. So funny watching him walk around in it. I love it. Now he can't wait until Halloween.

That is Brill! I want one!

That's what I was going to do!!! Have my hubs be the rooster and myself the hen and Chyler be a chick and Stella an egg!!! Lol!!!

Make sure you post the pics.

 

[chicapee]

I like the little "egg" in this one:

And so many chicks:

Look, it's a silkie:

That egg is adorable!

 

[AmyLynn2374]

Silkie with yellow feet:



LOL

 

[chicapee]

Silkie with yellow feet:



LOL

Make me want grand kids

 

[AmyLynn2374]

Make sure you post the pics.

Definitely!!!