The Evolution of Atlas: A Breeding (and Chat) Thread

[1muttsfan]

If you are not electrically inclined, I would highly recommend the pre-made heat bases. I bought one several years ago and have not for one minute regretted what it cost me. I only run one pen of chickens in the winter, though. A couple years ago when I had a small pen as well I used a heated dog bowl filled with sand, and put the waterer on top of the sand.

Did you try defragging your registry? I use a free program called Glary Utilities, it has a one step clean up, and then some more complicated utilities such as registry defrag.

 

[1muttsfan]

Kind of fun to hear a bunch of old hens like us talking Tech talk

 

[getaclue]

If ANYONE messes with any of my water equipment for the next 2 years, that anyone is going to get hurt. They took out the old iron filter, which was doing nothing, and installed a new one, then rebedded the filter media on the softener. Yay, it works great, however, it takes about 24 hours to get rid of the smell of the pvc glue from the water. I hate that smell. The next day, I cleared the lines, and no more pvc glue smell. Yay. That's when Dh went and got a new hot water heater. More pvc glue smell in the water, and since the water is hot, the smell is more pronounced. 2 days later, the smell is barely noticeable. Yay.

Water softener guy comes back to tighten something on the softener that was leaking. Dh expressed concern to water softener guy that he thought the pump was cycling too much, so they installed an additional bladder tank. Not only was all the pvc glue smell back, but I've got the rubberized taste in the water from the bladder. Yes, I know all the smells, and rubber taste will be gone by next week, but in the meantime it's just UGH! Yes, I'm using bottled water to drink, cook, and make coffee with until it all clears out.

In the meantime, I complained that the water wasn't hot enough. It's supposedly preset at 120 degrees at the factory, which I'm not convinced is entirely healthy, but the water coming out of the faucet was 110 degrees. Dh upped the thermostats to about 135. Ahhh, yes I could feel the water was hotter, but not 135 degrees hot. I tested, and it was 120 degrees. Better, but I still wouldn't mind it being slightly hotter. Dh told me to go check the other faucets. The water coming out of the bathtub faucet, and both showers is 135 degrees. The water coming out of the bathroom sink faucets, and kitchen faucet is 120 degrees. I suspected an anti scald device on those 3 faucets, but when we took them apart, nope, they don't have them, so it's got to be somewhere in the hot water line.

 

[speckledhen]

Kind of fun to hear a bunch of old hens like us talking Tech talk

LOL, hey, we may be older, but we ain't dead!

If you are not electrically inclined, I would highly recommend the pre-made heat bases. I bought one several years ago and have not for one minute regretted what it cost me. I only run one pen of chickens in the winter, though. A couple years ago when I had a small pen as well I used a heated dog bowl filled with sand, and put the waterer on top of the sand.

Did you try defragging your registry? I use a free program called Glary Utilities, it has a one step clean up, and then some more complicated utilities such as registry defrag.

Yes, defragged over and over again, the entire system.

 

[Leahs Mom]

Do you have a good computer place that could diagnose for a reasonable price?

 

[getaclue]

My computer consist of:
Cooler Master HAF 932 Tower
Sabertooth 990FX motherboard
AMD FX 8350 Black Edition Eight Core Processor
Zalwin processor fan
NVIDIA GeForce GTX 760 Graphics Card
Corsair 16 GB RAM
Corsair 600 Watt Power Supply
5 - 1 TB Hard Drives, 4 in use, 1 gets plugged in once a month, and I back up my main hard drive, then unplug it.
Ducky Shine 6 Mechanical Keyboard
LG 502 Proteus Core Gaming Mouse

Yes, I built my own computer, and have totally rebuilt it a couple times since the original build. Dh is a deputy, and I fix a lot of his co-worker's computers. In addition, many of them give me their old equipment when they buy new. I rebuild them, and donate them to kids in need, and the local abuse shelter for the kids there.

 

[getaclue]

Old timers CAN keep up with technology, and teach these young whipper snappers a thing or two. LOL!

 

[speckledhen]

My computer consist of:
Cooler Master HAF 932 Tower
Sabertooth 990FX motherboard
AMD FX 8350 Black Edition Eight Core Processor
Zalwin processor fan
NVIDIA GeForce GTX 760 Graphics Card
Corsair 16 GB RAM
Corsair 600 Watt Power Supply
5 - 1 TB Hard Drives, 4 in use, 1 gets plugged in once a month, and I back up my main hard drive, then unplug it.
Ducky Shine 6 Mechanical Keyboard
LG 502 Proteus Core Gaming Mouse

Yes, I built my own computer, and have totally rebuilt it a couple times since the original build. Dh is a deputy, and I fix a lot of his co-worker's computers. In addition, many of them give me their old equipment when they buy new. I rebuild them, and donate them to kids in need, and the local abuse shelter for the kids there.

Yeah, DH builds his or buys refurbished and adds parts. Yours sounds like the monster truck of computers, Cheryl! My younger son is really more the computer whiz, but of course, he is in Ireland. I just don't want to pay $500-1000 for a brand new one if I can help it. I just post pictures and do videos and surf the web, nothing that should be too strenuous for it, but the video production is the worst I do on it now, still should not make it break a sweat.

 

[speckledhen]

Do you have a good computer place that could diagnose for a reasonable price?

There is one, but they charge by the hour and it's probably not cost-effective for an almost 5 yr old computer anyway.

Going to the dentist today over an hour south of us, so won't be around for a few hours. Here is my latest video and you can watch the beautiful and dedicated mother, Brandy, with her chicks (who will be leaving on the 28th for a new home). They spent a full night by themselves and she was back with Bash last night. She's been spending a few hours a day away from them, but was with them at night until last night. They're 6 weeks old now.
Used my infamous line for the title.

 

[1muttsfan]

Ok. Most people know about defragging the hard drive, but the registry is a different deal.