The Old Folks Home

[perchie.girl]

Thanks Deb. Yeah its rough. I have the nicotine gum and commit lozenges. They taste awful.

Awesome.... The stuff that is really bad for you is the other crap in Smoke.... I am glad you are getting fortification.....

Go Bamba Go..... Go Bama Go....


deb

 

[perchie.girl]

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When I live there and have a refrigerator and freezer hooked up and use the lights and watch videos the bill goes up to about 50 ish....

I do not heat the house in winter.... I use a potbelly for the main house and an electric oil heater for my bedroom Those heaters are incredibly efficient.

When I need to cool the house down in summer I run a swamp cooler.... They cost about the same as running a hundred watt lightbulb. Remember Low humidity here very low year round.

If its over a hundred during the day the bedroom gets the benefit of a window AC to bring the temps down. but just to take the heat off.

Right now I am only running the well pump to keep the water pressure up for the horse water... It only fires up when the pressure drops down.... She drinks about a hundred gallons every two and a half days.

I would turn all the breakers off in the house if I remember to...... But nothing is running in there not even a night light.

deb

 

[perchie.girl]

Congrats dude on quitting you are doing great.


Our power bill is nearly 400. from running lights in 4 brooders and 3 incubators. :/

here in the summer I could put the chicks outside... WE do get a big temperature drop between night and day though so when I do the brooder outside I will have a plain old light bulb for night time.

But I am not intending on raising birds to the Nth degree for resale. I hopefully will get some broodies established for the chick and keet duty.... and for Muscovy duck duty when I am ready.

deb

 

[bamadude]

Deb: whats a swamp cooler?

 

[perchie.girl]

Deb: whats a swamp cooler?

an evaporative cooler.... runs water over pads and a blower blows the chillled air into the house. It can only drop the temperature down about 10 to 15 degrees. And it humidifies the air in the house as well.

Best results are with an open window or two in th eroom you want cooled.

I sooo love it to have fresh air in the house.

deb

 

[bamadude]

Where can I find one of those?

 

[bamadude]

@ronott1, @chickadoodles: this 1588 is gangsta. Thanks for the advice. Just candled and 100% shows veining

 

[chickadoodles]

Your welcome dude! Congrats! And you don't want a swamp cooler here they don't even sell them here in AL. I tried to get one after I moved here. No one sells them here, it is the wrong part of the country. Swamp coolers are used in the dry desert to add moisture in the air.

Deb when we lived in Vista we had AC, I would not have wanted a swamp cooler there. Every day at 2 pm I had to put my sweater on from the breeze coming off the ocean in Oceanside.

 

[chickadoodles]

Deb, I am raising turkey and they need the heat for at least the first week or so. But I am still hatching and adding the new poults in the same brooder for the older turkey to brood for me.

I hope you will get broody everything that you want to raise.

 

[vehve]

Okay, first evening with the trail cam. We got some footage of Hilma digging up the entrance and crouching above it for a few minutes, but there's a six minute gap in filming, and in no part of the videos were the kits visible. So at least they're not coming out completely from the nest yet. We did read somewhere that around this age (they're 16 days today) the kits should only come to the entrance and feed from the doe who crouches above it, so maybe we do still have some baby bunnies alive in there. We tried to re-angle the camera for a better view, so we'll see if we get some decent footage tomorrow.