Man CR you Rock! If I knew you had ribs I would have stopped by and Rustled me some ribs Midnight style on the way home from dropping off the sister-in-laws wallet to the Portland Airport after she forgot it and need ID to get on the plane. Next time your outta town let me know I'll stop in!!WOW!!! CR you are AWESOME!!! Now I'ma little mad I didn't complain about not having Superbowl food!!!
I'll check it out! I have Prime too so it should work out nice. Thanks
Itsren, pictures please
Quote: I use my Maglite, it has the real bright LED. Candles my eggs very well.
I know you don't want to hear this, but maybe Drama needs to go with Blackie. I have my aggressive girl in isolation until later this week, then she will go back into the flock. If she has not changed her behavior, she will be going to the pot. Today all the other chickens were in the run and mingling great, no chasing or anything like that.Well, the bully Brahma is at it again. Blackie and Latte are in the run sitting on the roost peeping that they want to go in the coop. Drama is sitting in the pop door with a look on her face as if to say. Drama turned her back, Blackie flew over to the ramp, followed by Latte. Within a matter of seconds both Blackie and Latte were knocked off the ramp and Drama resumed her door-blocking position.
Is this ever going to end? DH keeps telling me that maybe we should just give up and sell Blackie and Latte as a pair.
Very Cute Kiddos!! ot even a bunch of mud can cover up that kind of cute!!3 wet filthy kids...I love it!!
I use my Maglite, it has the real bright LED. Candles my eggs very well.Quote:Itsren, pictures please
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Fun and not-so-fun times today.
For the not-so-fun: I still have to go out to the run, get Rhodie and put her back into the coop. The big 'ol-chunk-o-Drama discovered that she could sit in the pop door and refuse to let Blackie and Latte go in the coop. When we moved her, Rhodie ran out to attack, and was attacking pretty hard. As luck would have it, the automatic pop door went into it's closing cycle, and she, Blackie and Latte were locked out. So, DH and I took Blackie and Latte out of the run and put them in the coop through the clean-out door and left Rhodie stuck in the run to cool off. That was a couple of hours ago. Guess I better go deal with her now. Wish I didn't have to go back outside tonight.
And for the fun: The experimental eggs are in the bators. They have been documented, photographed, candled and set. My kid is very excited. In the candling process we found 2 with significant hairline cracks, so we took those out of the bunch, cracked them open and photographed them. Both appeared to be fertile, and one even appeared to already be developing a little bit. That was pretty cool for my son to see. He couldn't believe that was the start of a baby chick. He's pretty excited. The "not-turned" eggs won't be turned with exception of every few days when we take them out to candle them. We bought an egg candler and the little bugger works well. Now, in the name of science, we finally have an egg candler.
What kind of candler did you pick up? We used a pretty bright flashlight but didn't see much. We thought about building one but the way I've been going we would end up with a dozen or two. My living room is filling up with ice chests and hatching eggs, I think I may be at my limit. NOT!!!!!!!Fun and not-so-fun times today.
For the not-so-fun: I still have to go out to the run, get Rhodie and put her back into the coop. The big 'ol-chunk-o-Drama discovered that she could sit in the pop door and refuse to let Blackie and Latte go in the coop. When we moved her, Rhodie ran out to attack, and was attacking pretty hard. As luck would have it, the automatic pop door went into it's closing cycle, and she, Blackie and Latte were locked out. So, DH and I took Blackie and Latte out of the run and put them in the coop through the clean-out door and left Rhodie stuck in the run to cool off. That was a couple of hours ago. Guess I better go deal with her now. Wish I didn't have to go back outside tonight.
And for the fun: The experimental eggs are in the bators. They have been documented, photographed, candled and set. My kid is very excited. In the candling process we found 2 with significant hairline cracks, so we took those out of the bunch, cracked them open and photographed them. Both appeared to be fertile, and one even appeared to already be developing a little bit. That was pretty cool for my son to see. He couldn't believe that was the start of a baby chick. He's pretty excited. The "not-turned" eggs won't be turned with exception of every few days when we take them out to candle them. We bought an egg candler and the little bugger works well. Now, in the name of science, we finally have an egg candler.
I know you don't want to hear this, but maybe Drama needs to go with Blackie. I have my aggressive girl in isolation until later this week, then she will go back into the flock. If she has not changed her behavior, she will be going to the pot. Today all the other chickens were in the run and mingling great, no chasing or anything like that.Well, the bully Brahma is at it again. Blackie and Latte are in the run sitting on the roost peeping that they want to go in the coop. Drama is sitting in the pop door with a look on her face as if to say. Drama turned her back, Blackie flew over to the ramp, followed by Latte. Within a matter of seconds both Blackie and Latte were knocked off the ramp and Drama resumed her door-blocking position.
Is this ever going to end? DH keeps telling me that maybe we should just give up and sell Blackie and Latte as a pair.
Yeah I tried this once. I told the girls "ok if yer layin yer stayin. If yer slackin start packin. well the next day I went to see how many eggs I had each marked with a different lipstick. Guess What??? I found one rainbow egg up them brats all smeared their color on that one egg !!
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That's because you told them your plans.Smart girls you got there.
It's a crappy setup. Maybe I'll get a picture of the whole yard somehow (panoramic) and post it here. Or maybe I'll have everyone here over for a backyard "potluck" as a ruse to getting help putting up a chicken wire fence.
