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[blythspirit]

When it comes to hatching they are the pro's and I still a newbie. I did finally manage a 99% hatch rate. But that was only because I hatched 5 out of 6 chicks.

chickadoodles..I love your baby dancing chick avi...soo cute

 

[pickitfarm]

When it comes to hatching they are the pro's and I still a newbie. I did finally manage a 99% hatch rate. But that was only because I hatched 5 out of 6 chicks.

Still a great success.

I would take it. 99% of any hatching is good in my opinion The only really successful hatch so far for DH was our very first hatch and that was Rhodebars and it was 8 out of 12. Unfortunately the weather last summer was very wet and hot on the tikes last summer and only two survived to adolescences. They are very handsome cockerels and they are looking for some ladies. We have two more Rhodebar hatch a few weeks ago - one male and one femaie. We have a broody working on some Buff Orps and I have some of the same eggs in an incubator. I really need to get a cabinet incubator. We sell our eggs and we need more hens because the demand for the eggs is greater than our production. On top of that we have people who want to purchase chicks for their backyards.

 

[ronott1]

Ya'll be careful Ron!

The Paper said the funnel Cloud was very close to me--about a mile East. Luckily it did not touch down.

 

[CanuckBock]

That's a sore spot here and the beginning of a hoarding story.

I will be of NO help...takes three units to make one good one (especially the old old ones!) and if you buy one that is just about as good (or heaven forbid, BETTER) than the project vehicle you bought it for...well then your project goes from one to two (no help when the wife wants her own too--joint effort; he fixes & I try unsuccessfully not to break it).

Jeff Foxworthy Quote:

Lotsa fellas complaint that they don't have the blessings/enabling of their wives behind their vehicle hobby but when a husband does...what's to stop it all from getting outta control?

Our big spring project entails 60 foot trusses (bought last summer), another lift of stick lumber (think Rick said he needs more strapping for the metal roof?), two c-cans for end walls, and a large area where we dismantled an old wood shed last spring, cleared a larger pad and hauled boxes and boxes of 2 inch and 3/4 minus. Had the whole winter and now what may turn into spring (hoping) to settle the site. This will park 5 to 6 units safely (no more canopies to roof rake...how lovely!) and if Rick has any shreds of energy left...one more garage (a large double) planned beside the man porch and we got his collection of vehicles safely stowed away. There are a dozen trucks in all but some ARE suppose to be for parts...suppose to be. Winter is rough but the baseball sized hail we get in summer is FAR worse...not sure there are any nice nice seasons here in Alberta! Lots of sun though...blue skies and tons of sunshine.

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I LOVE snow but even I am a tad tired of the amounts...raking the roofs off is one thing, where you put the roof snow when it creeps UP the sides...quite another. I am thinking we can sell "snow cones" in July to the steady stream of tourists heading out into the wilderness...I suggest one don't eat the yeller ones tho...

Course what am I thinking on NO snow...it has to WARM up to snow here...so maybe I should ask for some MORE snow...Bwa ha ha...it was minus forty this morn. Dressed in my tough ducks (nfi) tossing cracked corn and hoarsely whispering, "Live! LIVE my pretties...LIVE!"

Love the photos of the temple...very, very exotic. Incredible plant growth...bet one can SEE the vines move as they grow...ha ha ha.

Thank you for that peak at something so foreign. Lotsa kewl places to explore on this planet, eh?

Doggone & Chicken UP!

Tara Lee Higgins
Higgins Rat Ranch Conservation Farm, Alberta, Canada

 

[blythspirit]

I will be of NO help...takes three units to make one good one (especially the old old ones!) and if you buy one that is just about as good (or heaven forbid, BETTER) than the project vehicle you bought it for...well then your project goes from one to two (no help when the wife wants her own too--joint effort; he fixes & I try unsuccessfully not to break it).

Jeff Foxworthy Quote:

Lotsa fellas complaint that they don't have the blessings/enabling of their wives behind their vehicle hobby but when a husband does...what's to stop it all from getting outta control?

Our big spring project entails 60 foot trusses (bought last summer), another lift of stick lumber (think Rick said he needs more strapping for the metal roof?), two c-cans for end walls, and a large area where we dismantled an old wood shed last spring, cleared a larger pad and hauled boxes and boxes of 2 inch and 3/4 minus. Had the whole winter and now what may turn into spring (hoping) to settle the site. This will park 5 to 6 units safely (no more canopies to roof rake...how lovely!) and if Rick has any shreds of energy left...one more garage (a large double) planned beside the man porch and we got his collection of vehicles safely stowed away. There are a dozen trucks in all but some ARE suppose to be for parts...suppose to be. Winter is rough but the baseball sized hail we get in summer is FAR worse...not sure there are any nice nice seasons here in Alberta! Lots of sun though...blue skies and tons of sunshine.

​

I LOVE snow but even I am a tad tired of the amounts...raking the roofs off is one thing, where you put the roof snow when it creeps UP the sides...quite another. I am thinking we can sell "snow cones" in July to the steady stream of tourists heading out into the wilderness...I suggest one don't eat the yeller ones tho...

Course what am I thinking on NO snow...it has to WARM up to snow here...so maybe I should ask for some MORE snow...Bwa ha ha...it was minus forty this morn. Dressed in my tough ducks (nfi) tossing cracked corn and hoarsely whispering, "Live! LIVE my pretties...LIVE!"

Love the photos of the temple...very, very exotic. Incredible plant growth...bet one can SEE the vines move as they grow...ha ha ha.

Thank you for that peak at something so foreign. Lotsa kewl places to explore on this planet, eh?

Doggone & Chicken UP!

Tara Lee Higgins
Higgins Rat Ranch Conservation Farm, Alberta, Canada

I hope your pretties make it through. you are so full of fun and energy I can see why you are successful up there!

 

[chickisoup]

Quote: Oh no!!! I thought they shipped with heat packs etc. Now I am more worried about my small order of Aussies from them due to ship in April. Nice elsewhere I'm sure but here it can still be pretty cold!

 

[Wisher1000]

One of her cover pics

I see she is a Tolkien fan.........

 

[ronott1]

Oh no!!! I thought they shipped with heat packs etc. Now I am more worried about my small order of Aussies from them due to ship in April. Nice elsewhere I'm sure but here it can still be pretty cold!

She lost 12 out of 24--shipment got stuck in Reno for a day so it was in a very cold dry place.

 

[blythspirit]

She lost 12 out of 24--shipment got stuck in Reno for a day so it was in a very cold dry place.

 

[ChickenCanoe]

Oh no!!! I thought they shipped with heat packs etc. Now I am more worried about my small order of Aussies from them due to ship in April. Nice elsewhere I'm sure but here it can still be pretty cold!

Heat packs usually only come with orders under 20 something birds.
I wouldn't worry about an April shipment. Chicks generate a lot of heat on their own.

I see she is a Tolkien fan.........

She is, but not as much as my son and I. She's more of a H. Potter fan.
My son and I were camping on opening day of trout season (Feb. 1) when he was still a cub scout. We got snowed in for 3 days at a primitive campsite in Bennett Springs trout park outside Lebanon MO. Between ice and snow, no one could get far from their campsite. They checked on all campers that we had enough food and water to wait it out. They thought they might have to helicopter in supplies but we were all prepared. My son and I spent most of the time playing in the snow or hunkered under piles of blankets reading Tolkien books to each other and working on his math homework. Since we couldn't get back home, he missed a couple days of school as well as his troop's box car derby. We hadn't finished the car yet. We planned on modelling it after a '62 Cadillac Fleetwood since it's a box shape anyway, but had only actually shaped it a little and put the axles and wheels under it. Basically it was still a block of wood with wheels and axles. One of his friend's mother came by the house and picked up the unfinished car to enter for him. She didn't want him not to be able to compete even though he was stranded in a blizzard. Bless her heart. When she arrived at the derby, they weighed the car and it was light so they just glued some weights to the underside so it was close to regulation. There were father/sons that brought out slick cars they had spent months on. My son's car won. A block of wood with wheels and round lead weights. It was strictly luck and no one could believe it.