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

[kitkat5505]

Yay for her first egg! Always exciting. 2 of my girls are 35 weeks and I was sure I wouldn’t get any eggs until spring, but they both started squatting for me a few days ago and all the others laid their first egg within a week of squatting so I have hope for them lol.

 

[speckledhen]

Yay for her first egg! Always exciting. 2 of my girls are 35 weeks and I was sure I wouldn’t get any eggs until spring, but they both started squatting for me a few days ago and all the others laid their first egg within a week of squatting so I have hope for them lol.

Good for both of us! I also saw Atlas mate MJ when I let them out. Never saw her even offer to squat for him prior to this morning. In a way, it's a bummer because she seems to really like her dad and she may carry a dwarf gene so I could get more Pooh-bears from them if I hatched her eggs. She doesn't like Hector, with very good reason if you ask me, the way he treats new girls, so I'm not sure what the heck I can do to breed her with Hector. I don't want to deal with it until spring anyway, though. I hope I'm wrong and she is actually Hector's daughter, but her comb blade (missing after the attack awhile back by Zara in the other pen) was a typical Stukel hen comb blade, identical to Tessa's. Tessa and MaryJo look so much alike, I can't see her being Hector's daughter anyway. She also has the shape and size of the Stukel pullets and in her face, looks much like Wynette. That's why I'm about 99.9% positive of her parentage.

Oh @getaclue! Cheryl, oh, computer whiz, my computer that Tom fixed for me by getting a new hard drive is having bizarre issues. It may be a driver, but what do you think? The error message is "system thread exception not handled". It reboots multiple times in a day, very inconvenient. Some folks said NCH software was the problem (my video editor), but we uninstalled it and it didn't help. Some others said a graphics driver is a problem and we need to boot it in safe mode and uninstall the driver, but we've had the Windows manager program check all drivers and it can't find anything wrong in my system. I wouldn't know how to find which driver may be causing the problem. It's a Lenovo all-in-one that my SIL gave to Tom when she couldn't fix it. He opened it up, completely cleaned all parts, checked all connections and then bought a hard drive, which seemed to really fix it, then this error message became a recurring problem. If my son was here, the one who is in Ireland, he could probably fix it, but alas, distance precludes his hands-on help. And he's in a master's program so I won't even bug him with it. It's a really nice system, running Windows 10 on it, using Firefox most of the time. Any ideas?

 

[getaclue]

If it were me, I'd start on the Lenovo site, and make sure the BIOS, and all peripherals pertaining to that make, and model, are up to date. Next, make sure all the drivers are up to date. They should have them on the Lenovo website, BUT if they don't, they will list what hardware is in your system, and you can go to the sites to get the current drivers.

 

[speckledhen]

Already done. The thing is, this machine went through his sister's 2nd house fire (yes, she had two houses burn to the ground in the course of three years) so water, insulation from the ceiling, smoke, got into it. It was a mess when Tom started working on it. It's clean as a whistle inside now, new hard drive, etc. It's rebooted five times today, which is very annoying when you've written a long post and POOF! He did uninstall the graphics driver and reinstalled it and blew out the power supply so waiting to see if it reboots again after that. Still waiting...


Oh, I got FIVE eggs today! Maretta, Wendy, MaryJo, Cora and Tiny all produced for us.

 

[getaclue]

5 eggs....lucky you! Let me know what happens with the computer.

 

[speckledhen]

5 eggs....lucky you! Let me know what happens with the computer.

Thanks, Cheryl. We shall see. So far, it hasn't rebooted. I hope he fixed the problem. He'll tell you it's hit and miss when he troubleshoots stuff, though he was doing the work of an engineer in the Air Force.

 

[speckledhen]

Well, darn. It rebooted. Grrrr. I rather like this all-in-one. No huge box on my desk, just the big monitor and wireless lighted keyboard and mouse. And it's touchscreen if I want to do it that way.

 

[getaclue]

Glad it rebooted. Hopefully, that worked the bugs out. Speaking of bugs....
This morning I dragged Dh to a Florida Homesteaders event. They had classes on canning, one on killing, and cleaning rabbits (the method they demonstrated for killing the rabbits, was one of the fastest, and most humane methods I've seen to date.), and a seminar on raising mealworms. I bought a bunch of mealworm larvae with plenty of food, and she threw in a few beetles too. We came home, and I was totally content, THEN Dh got a phone call. I had entered the raffle while I was there. I won first prize, which was a whole mealworm farm. We went and got it. In about a moth, I should be broke out with plenty of mealworms for my chickens. YAY!!!

 

[speckledhen]

Glad it rebooted. Hopefully, that worked the bugs out. Speaking of bugs....
This morning I dragged Dh to a Florida Homesteaders event. They had classes on canning, one on killing, and cleaning rabbits (the method they demonstrated for killing the rabbits, was one of the fastest, and most humane methods I've seen to date.), and a seminar on raising mealworms. I bought a bunch of mealworm larvae with plenty of food, and she threw in a few beetles too. We came home, and I was totally content, THEN Dh got a phone call. I had entered the raffle while I was there. I won first prize, which was a whole mealworm farm. We went and got it. In about a moth, I should be broke out with plenty of mealworms for my chickens. YAY!!!

It rebooted twice, the second time just after I submitted my post. Such a pain!

You won something, cool! Do tell on the rabbit dispatch method. I'm about to watch a movie with DH. I may crash afterward.

 

[getaclue]

They used a Hopper Popper. There is a youtube video about it, but the lady today was much faster. She asked if anyone else wanted to try it. Of he other two ladies that did it, the first one was quick, like the lady teaching, but the second one was too much of a powder puff. The instructor stepped in quickly, and had the second lady re-do it fast, with more oomph. She wasn't about to let the rabbit suffer. The instructor told about the importance of the best, sharpest knife you could afford, since sharpness is essential. She, and the first lady cut right through the hide (the rabbit was already dead). The second lady, again had to be told to use a bit more oomph, so she finally got it cut, skinned, and gutted.