Should I buy eggs or wait it out?

[mortie]

My husband does that too, or when we travel and he changes one time zone. He'll say "It's really 7 for us" when it's 8 and I am like "are you serious???" I just change the clocks and don't give it another thought lol.

While checking on the bator I peeked at an egg...and finally I dropped one. Sort of. I reach in through the little window on my little giant incubator and this time it got caught on the turner and fell onto the wire floor. No damage done. Whew! Baby inside is looking good. Bator is holding steady. 6 days til lockdown.

 

[lindz8504]

I usually just go to bed an hour earlier and am fine. My kids too. It isn't a big deal around here.

 

[Wishing4Wings]

Well drat, there goes my petition! I can tell the time of day to within 15 mins by the sunlight, so it takes me about 2 weeks to readjust when the clock is suddenly off by an hour. Guess it was easier when I was younger and slept better!

 

[mortie]

I think you would likely have great success with your petition. I know I am very much in the minority on this one.

 

[cheeka]

she's hiding... just like Spring... we've got another storm tracking in for next week... with accumulation of snow threatened

now she knows she has been spotted... hope Spring realizes she's due here in short order...

I should be up and doing stuff. I don't wanna. 15 Eggs today!

 

[Scrambles55]

I don't care for DST. It messes up my bio chicken. I am very much a creature of habit and I tell time by the sun and "feel" of the day. It is bad for our health.

TWO eggs today!! I think that Smoke ( the 3 year old) is tapering off on the egg gifting. She has not layed in 10 days, but still squats on occasion. The other 3 are laying 4-6 per week, but I kinda miss the pinky brown eggs.

 

[BullChick]

First, I checked the flower garden. The Daffodils are peeking up out of the ground.
I went out to begin washing the brooder. It had doubled as a nest box in the garden last fall when I was letting the chickens help me out in there. You know? Aerate, fertilize and tear up the last of the vegetables. Anyway, I was washing the lid, and when I went to rinse it, I realized that the lid was broken. Big 'ol crack running from the center to almost the edge. The bottom isn't in great shape either.

All this time thinking about cleaning the brooder, and ten minutes in, the whole thing is called off. Oh well. I will find the chick feeders and waterers in the next few days. Make 100% sure that both heat lamps are working, and that the one bulb is still good. Being in the house, a normal (I said normal, not new fangled!) bulb will work.
What are we supposed to do when we run out of old style bulbs? Go to reptile lights? Will some company fill the void left for those of us that use the light bulbs for our heat lamps? And what about color bulbs? Like the red, blue. yellow and black (and I saw purple a time or two) bulbs for parties? And who can forget the bug light bulb? The yellowish bulb that looks like it has a film over it?

I want my light bulbs back!

 

[Wishing4Wings]

Beautiful, Cheeka! Your deer get so fluffy compared to ours. Guess it wouldn't be too comfortable with a heavy coat when it's 70° like it was today.

Biscuit has vent gleet.

She got a warm bath and some yogurt mixed with mash. She thoroughly enjoyed both. I'll try this with vinegar water for a few days before I try anything more drastic.


May I have yogurt PIE please?

 

[showbarnmom]

 

[mortie]

MC - I am going to guess that there will still be bulbs available for this sort of purpose. There will still be countries where they are made and we will still be able to get our hands on them. They will be more of a specialty item as opposed to available in every corner store, but I don't think we have to worry about not being able to get them in our lifetime. I have also read (not sure if it's true) that specialty bulbs like that are exempt. They are mostly going after the everyday bulb people are using in their home light fixtures. As for party bulbs, there are colored CF bulbs and at christmas time I bought a very cool color changing LED bulb (available always but that's when I bought it), so your party bulb needs will be fullfilled. In our house we use mostly LED bulbs in everything from desk lamps to my tank. Coral needs a huge amount of light to grow and my LEDs work great and cost almost nothing to run compared to what I used to have. Only problem with LED's is that they'll never really work for warming a brooder!

Cheeka - nice pics!

Everyone else, Hi! I hope you all had a nice warm day. We got up to 12 after the windchill was accounted for, nnnnnnot baaaad lol.