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[yinepu]

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oh you even have on there how many times the bird has sneezed and how many bugs it ate while free ranging!


j/k

but still... you have TONS of info to collect

 

[CatKai]

Yeah - sounds like my database. Yinepu nearly swallowed her tongue when she saw everything I had in it. It's setup to follow the life of a chicken from egg to pot - including any fertile eggs laid and with whom the egg was made. Parents, etc....should have a lineage up and going once I get fully going on my breeding program (imagine a family tree of birds). All medical issues, blah blah blah...basically, any question I've asked myself over the last while I've put into the database for tracking. I'm probably going to be one of the most anal retentive breeders in existence

But, I love data. Especially when I can look at a glance and see which breeding combination is giving me consistently great results and which ones blow monkey chunks. Keeps me from breeding the 'wrong' pairs, etc.

Out of all this what sticks with me is - blow monkey chunks! Too funny

 

[yinepu]

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I know.. I was looking at my list of eggs that are heading this way.. and my hatch dates for the ones in the bators.. I either REALLY need a lot of clear eggs in order for everyone to fit.. or I need to make a cheapie bator ASAP

 

[Kilsharion]

*makes jealous eyes* That is really neat. I can't wait to have mine enclosed. Finally got the stuff for the roof, now just need some material for the floors and walls. Lol They are outgrowing the converted doghouse. Plus, I may be getting 35 more birds in the next couple of weeks. Really need some materials. Thinking if I can find someone to run me to the pallet place and just build it out of those. Won't look all awesome but would be functional.

Two words - Craigs List.

Seriously - Mike got 95% of the wood we used for The Eggcelsior from CL...we only bought the 3/4" plywood for the floor. The cedar boards from fencing works wonderfully for coops, it's light, already been descented and most of the oils are worn away. And, best of all....free. Just haul it away. Cut the bottom off where it's been in contact with the ground, build up what you need, put a coat of weather seal on it if you want and call it good.

 

[yinepu]

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wait til she starts on the toads toenails...

 

[yinepu]

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your craigslist must be better than ours... either they charge you for the stuff here.. or the local "pick it up guys" have already beaten us to it

 

[Kilsharion]

I know.. I was looking at my list of eggs that are heading this way.. and my hatch dates for the ones in the bators.. I either REALLY need a lot of clear eggs in order for everyone to fit.. or I need to make a cheapie bator ASAP

I've been wondering about that!

If you don't get anything going, I still haven't heard word one from Dick about my eggs that he was supposed to send two weeks ago...So, I'll have an open bator with room for 46 large chicken eggs, if you want to make use of it. We'd "hatch sit" for you.

 

[Kilsharion]

your craigslist must be better than ours... either they charge you for the stuff here.. or the local "pick it up guys" have already beaten us to it

Mike has an app that dings him as soon as his criteria's met. The man is the king of finding free stuff or rock bottom deals. I swear he really is. Today, he and Jeff (son) scored two Stihl chain saws for under $200....they are easily worth 5x that. Jeff is an arborist and is cleaning them up and will probably resell them on the arborist sight he's on. But, really? I mean, the man is a magnet for a steal. **sighs**

 

[Kilsharion]

oh you even have on there how many times the bird has sneezed and how many bugs it ate while free ranging!


j/k

but still... you have TONS of info to collect

Well, yeah - that's true. And, some of it may never get used. This is my list of tables:




And, my husband was never so sexy to me as when he looked at what I was doing and asked me if I was creating a relational database....

Out of all this what sticks with me is - blow monkey chunks! Too funny

wait til she starts on the toads toenails...

**grins** yes, it's one of many that I have....blows monkey chunks, sucks toad toenails and the one that tends to make most people do a double take and then die laughing ((let's see if it gets censored)) is twat monkey (referring to some animal/human that is being rather irritating).

 

[CatKai]

wait til she starts on the toads toenails...

We talk like that around here but don't really ever hear anyone else do it. I said squid spit at work the other day and got their attention