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[yinepu]

Get 1 dress cut out and pinned together to sew it tomorrow. Get another pattern to make the other dress. Get the pair of pants taken apart to use as a pattern. Make the pants pattern larger for the other person who needs it. Feed the week old chicks and turkey poults, feed the 2 week old chicks, feed the month old chicks and then feed my grown birds. Feed that cats. Water everybody. Locate my laundry (the wind snatched it off the line and it is scattered all over the place). Start seedlings for watermelon, cantaloupe, and cucumber. Call about the missing dirt (two truckloads were supposed to be here a week ago, where the heck did my dirt go!?). Clean the house (how does it keep getting dirty) Change out the bedding in both the coop and the brooders. Tend to the eggs in my homemade incubator. Hope I'm doing it right. Locate a new hygrometer because I think mine died. It's reading 40% humidity but I have condensation on the lid of the incubator.

Oh, and get dressed and have a cup of coffee... Still sitting in bed because I just haven't been ready to start my day. The cats are griping (sitting on my window unit and peeking at me through the window). But I know the chicks are okay because I checked their food and water levels this morning when I sent my dh to work. Just feeling particularly lazy this morning.

throw away the hygrometers and monitor air cells.. it will give you better hatch rates

 

[StelleKitten]

throw away the hygrometers and monitor air cells.. it will give you better hatch rates

Okay. Will do. I saw a picture of that on one page, somewhere. I will draw lines. to keep track of them.

Oh Yinepu the great and knowledgeable! Lol. Seriously, you know a whole lot about birds. Thanks for sharing everything you know without charging for it.

 

[ShadowsFIAL]

Yinepu, it took me forever to finally see what was going on in your icon xD poor baby egg.

 

[yinepu]

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it's just having grown up around poultry all my life.. and having loads of ancestors and relatives who were poultrymen..

Yinepu, it took me forever to finally see what was going on in your icon xD poor baby egg.

lol...

 

[Cockle-Dood]

its not even 1 yet?!

 

[ShadowsFIAL]

Opinions plz:

Should DH get his german shephered under CKC registration as well? He has AKC, so would it be to DH's benefit to register him in CKC too?​

 

[StelleKitten]

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it's just having grown up around poultry all my life.. and having loads of ancestors and relatives who were poultrymen..

Yup, and so far it looks like my eggs are following the lines. Though I can't see to well on the brown eggs. I can't imagine how people with Marans candle their eggs. A high powered laser? I've got six strong led lights rigged up (thank you DH for being my tech guy) to make me a candler.

 

[Cockle-Dood]

i cant wait to start hatching my own chicks...whats the rule of thumb? wait for the hens to hit 1 year before you try hatching their eggs? or something like that?

 

[ShadowsFIAL]

i cant wait to start hatching my own chicks...whats the rule of thumb? wait for the hens to hit 1 year before you try hatching their eggs? or something like that?

There is a rule? I did not know this. *is ready to take notes*

 

[yinepu]

Opinions plz:

Should DH get his german shephered under CKC registration as well? He has AKC, so would it be to DH's benefit to register him in CKC too?​

depends on how much stock you put into the breed registries

and on if you think you may ever want to breed the dog down the road or show him (some people hate showing AKC.. but love the CKC shows)




I always went with AKC for my dobies.. then was faced with a woman who was also breeding dobermans.. problem was she was falsifying her records.. using paperwork from dead dogs to register litters of mixed breed dobermans as well as registering dobermans who had no registered ancestors in their lines.

so considering that part of it.. the registrations just aren't worth the paper they are printed on .. not when so many people can and do falsify them
BUT many people demand the paperwork because it "proves" to them the dog is a purebred (when in actuality it doesn't really prove anything except they had the cash to submit the papers)

when I started with American Eskimos the AKC wouldn't even recognize them.. finally in 1994 they decided to 'allow" them in.. many of the established kennels told AKC to take a hike and stayed with UKC instead


if you are planning on doing anything with the dog as far as breeding or shows.. and if you can afford it.. go ahead and get both registrations..
Since some people hate AKC.. and others hate CKC.. at least you will have your bases covered regardless of which way you want to go with him down the road


All of our shepherds have been AKC.. but I never bothered to submit the paperwork because we had no interest in showing or breeding