Should I buy eggs or wait it out?
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8 eggs today! All from the reds again. Our DD and SIL are eating every egg they can bum from us. I think they have eat more then us.
Football is on
The wait is done
The girls are oogling Clay
But today they laid one
Terrible...I know...
The wait is done
The girls are oogling Clay
But today they laid one
Terrible...I know...
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Phionex Boy, you can see that nobody wants you to leave this thread.
Everyone is welcome. Different topics are welcome too. One thing that may help you understand why the topics bounce around is that some of us have been chatting on this thread for over 2 years! We know each other and have kind of built a history together based on being friendly, positive, and supportive of each other. New people join the thread all the time, and I love it because it gives me more people to learn from and have as BYC friends.
I wish I knew more about how to help you with your incubator project, but I have only hatched eggs under broody hens so far. I did look for some BYC places where you might get ideas. http://Homemade Chicken Egg Incubator Designs & Pictures is good. (I like the first one by Gator Boy). I'll add on some more threads if I see anything else that looks good.
If you do build an incubator, I'd love to see some pictures! (I just won't be able to help you.
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Adding this great article by Sally Sunshine that gives you the basics of hatching eggs in general. There's tons of useful info here. http://Hatching Eggs 101
I wish I knew more about how to help you with your incubator project, but I have only hatched eggs under broody hens so far. I did look for some BYC places where you might get ideas. http://Homemade Chicken Egg Incubator Designs & Pictures is good. (I like the first one by Gator Boy). I'll add on some more threads if I see anything else that looks good.
If you do build an incubator, I'd love to see some pictures! (I just won't be able to help you.
Adding this great article by Sally Sunshine that gives you the basics of hatching eggs in general. There's tons of useful info here. http://Hatching Eggs 101
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mortie, I am so in on a sibeowio calendar! that would be the bomb! I know a couple of good printing sites that do calendars, one that does seriously nice books too, only $20 for 20 pages.
W4W, we have had quite a great Summer, weather-wise. cooler weather for the most part, only a few days above 90°, strings of days in the low to mid 70's... just enough rain - some great thunderstorms... I'm enjoying how lush everything is, but have heard distressing info regarding the coming winter. supposed to be just like last year. I'll make the most of the moment, but I need to build a better roof structure for the back pen if I'm to be here through another bitter season. I have a plan for a free standing structure, even have some of the lumber - technically, furniture... my bed has a canopy. heavy duty wood end posts - the ceilings here aren't really high enough to use it, and it's been in the attic for 14 years. the 4 ends are made of 2 2x6's squared to form the corner angles. it's taller than the pen so they will be used to hold the main frame. I'll add support posts and beams on the interior... and it will still be "portable" when I move.
W4W, we have had quite a great Summer, weather-wise. cooler weather for the most part, only a few days above 90°, strings of days in the low to mid 70's... just enough rain - some great thunderstorms... I'm enjoying how lush everything is, but have heard distressing info regarding the coming winter. supposed to be just like last year. I'll make the most of the moment, but I need to build a better roof structure for the back pen if I'm to be here through another bitter season. I have a plan for a free standing structure, even have some of the lumber - technically, furniture... my bed has a canopy. heavy duty wood end posts - the ceilings here aren't really high enough to use it, and it's been in the attic for 14 years. the 4 ends are made of 2 2x6's squared to form the corner angles. it's taller than the pen so they will be used to hold the main frame. I'll add support posts and beams on the interior... and it will still be "portable" when I move.
Wow Cheeka, using a canopy bed to make a coop has to be a BYC first! You might need to write an article. It's a good idea especially for the poor guys that get frostbite on their combs.
Our hopes for a nice rainy winter are steadily decreasing as it seems the El Niño year were expecting is not materializing.
This week, the skies have been brown with smoke from fires in a county north of us. Mandatory water rationing for most everyone using public utilities. Mature trees that were stressed last year look to be dying this year. So sad.
When you are buried up to your eyeballs in the cold white stuff, I will appreciate my mild weather, but until then I will remain seriously, enviously GREEN. Keep showing your beautiful, lush pictures because it keeps the dream alive! At least we don't spend all summer
. But I guess I wouldn't mind.
Our hopes for a nice rainy winter are steadily decreasing as it seems the El Niño year were expecting is not materializing.
When you are buried up to your eyeballs in the cold white stuff, I will appreciate my mild weather, but until then I will remain seriously, enviously GREEN. Keep showing your beautiful, lush pictures because it keeps the dream alive! At least we don't spend all summer
W4w is officially excluded from the calendar...
Wow, haven't read this thread in a few days...a lot going on. Work has been tough last couple of days and I've been exhausted when I got home. Work late, come home, get some chicken sugar, eat dinner, and then to bed. My girls are starting to moult, but still getting 5-6 eggs a day from 6 hens.
Cheeka, your chickens are beautiful and love seeing your pictures. Your roof plans sound interesting...would love to see pictures when you finish.
Cheeka, your chickens are beautiful and love seeing your pictures. Your roof plans sound interesting...would love to see pictures when you finish.
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Hi lula!
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