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[Chickielady]

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Good !!!
When to you find out the results of your tests ?

The hospital was supposed to pick them up at this afternoon from the clinic and they are supposed to get back to me today...they close at 5:30 but I was going to call at 5pm and check...I saw my doctor while I was at the store (he was on his lunch break) and he asked how it went & if I had my results back yet. I told him about all the poking and said that I didn't know yet and he said he'd check when he got back to the office.

 

[Rare Feathers Farm]

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Yeah, the bulbs were the first thing I checked.

Both were okay when plugged into other sockets. The turners were still clicking/turning so it was not the power strip. The fans & lights were not working--so it's definitely a fuse? I think?

The power strip I have is a surge protector thing....but I'm wondering if losing power a few days ago is what screwed it up?

If the surge protector had blown, you would have had to reset it.
Did you reset it ?
It will not come back on unless you do.

No because the power outage was a few days ago and the incubator was working fine when I left this morning. I didn't reset it.

DH thinks the incubator is a POS and will "burn our house down."

He said he could build a better one. I told him to go for it!

 

[Stumpfarmer]

RFF give me a day and I should be able to find you some of those little fuses, if you can't find them anywhere else. I'm going to collapse as soon as we get the hoop house chicken proof, but I should be able to come up with some in the morning.

It was good for me to have to sit in the car and think without having any work I could do; It's really obvious to me that I can't get the Hamburg cockeral until the weekend (that part came on the way up to Northgate

) and I should finish the Wyandotte Coop first, and clean out the chicken tractor for the Hamburg Cockeral before I try to enclose any more ground for an eventual Hamburg yard (that took the trip home, interrupted for a burger from Pick Quick (photo included for hallerlake's edification)

Hmmmm... I sized this way down, but things look all embiggened to me.

 

[broodytood]

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Wonder why on earth it blew a fuse ?
Have you tried to simply change the lights ?
Are the fans running but no lights ?
Weird....wish I could help !

Yeah, the bulbs were the first thing I checked.

Both were okay when plugged into other sockets. The turners were still clicking/turning so it was not the power strip. The fans & lights were not working--so it's definitely a fuse? I think?

The power strip I have is a surge protector thing....but I'm wondering if losing power a few days ago is what screwed it up?

That's the reason I bought the APC surge protector with battery backup. It gives me almost an hour of power just in case and it smoothes out all the little power surges we get just from living in a manufactured home. Didn't even know they happened.

 

[4cats3kids1hubby2many]

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Honestly...i probably have one in my christmas box. Let me know.

 

[Rare Feathers Farm]

Well, DH just called and no luck at the two auto parts stores he tried. So he's off to Ace and then Wal-mart. If that doesn't work--I'll take one of you up on your offer to hunt me down one.

It's a 125 watt, 5amp (max) fuse...tiny little thing.

 

[broodytood]

I just found 10 6x6 panels of chain link for 75$ in Oly. 2 of the panels are gated. COOL! Guess I'm going to Oly. for dinner tonight!

 

[cheryl98117]

I may have ALL of my extra cockerals sold! Or at least I sure hope I do! So if anyone wants a Blue or Black Ameraucana cockeral, let me know, and you can have him! Or hopefully this person will buy them. Dont want to know what they want them for, I just dont have the room for 11+ cockerals!

 

[cheryl98117]

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Thats an awsome find Broody!

 

[Ogress]

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Yikes!!! That's scarry!

X2. That's an interesting plan and I hope it works for the bears AND for your neighborhood! I've been following stories about black bears through the North American Bear Center in Ely, MN on Facebook. I've been fascinated by what I've learned there. There was a documentary about Lynn Rogers on Animal Planet some time ago called "Bearwalker of the North Woods". The program is rerun from time to time. Dr. Rogers studies these bears close up with tracking collars and webcams on their dens. He has spent decades earning their trust while still keeping his distance. It amazes me how he approaches the bears he knows to replace batteries in their collars just by whispering, "It's me bear", offering them nuts and favored treats so they allow him to touch them without any sedation. They share beautiful, and sometimes very sad stories about the individual bears and their offspring on their site, lots of photos and videos.

I wonder what the process is to train bears to be afraid of people? It is certainly best if all keep their distance from one another.

Sometimes, officers will do what's called a "hard release" to make the bear relearn its fear of humans. Officers set off noisy firecrackers and scream and yell so that the animal associates the scary experience with people and will avoid them.