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[Cloverleaf Farm]

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X2

x3!!!

 

[Cloverleaf Farm]

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Make sure you get there super early on Sunday, or you'll miss it all...too bad you can't make it on Saturday, because there's a Serama table top show....

 

[Kaneke]

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agreed, new chicks are totally messy

that's why I didn't like chips -- for the first week or so, the chicks were on chips with a big incontinence pad underneath to absorb the liquid stuff ... I had scored a bunch of Depends on Freecycle and the gal also gave me the bed pads (her dad had moved to a care home, so she didn't need the supplies any more)

but the chicks kept trying to eat the chips, and the edges of the pad, so I put spare branches and 2x4 scraps around the perimeter, and put in a mini-roost near the heating panel

they liked to roost so the debris built up mostly underneath that area .... so I put sheets of newspaper down over the pad instead; those I could just yank out, wad up, and throw in the compost ... and didn't use any more chips

the 2x4s also came in handy; I put the feeder and waterer up on blocks so the chicks didn't scratch crud into them, and so they didn't perch on them and poo ... once they started jumping and flying (didn't take long), I put pointed paper cups on the top of the glass canning quart jars I was using with the feeder and waterer bases (heavier than the plastic ones I saw in the store, easier to see the levels, and easier to wash out)

ETA: of course I had only SEVEN baby chicks; you've got five from the first lot and potentially, what? sixteen? from the second ....

I've often wondered if we ought to get one of those rolls of exam-table paper that hospitals, clinics, and doctors use ... just feed it in one end of the brooder, let it get soiled, and yank it out the other end (with a larger flap on the "used" end, only a small slit where it comes in) ... I can visualize the chicks acting like people on those artificial carpeted motorized ski hills .... or on a treadmill ...

 

[ChristineR]

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Do you know how long it will take to get there? We're in the Olympia area.

We already have Seramas, but don't know how to show them yet, otherwise my daughter would have entered a couple.

It will be fun to look at all the birds.

 

[ChristineR]

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Make sure you get there super early on Sunday, or you'll miss it all...too bad you can't make it on Saturday, because there's a Serama table top show....

Ugghh...I was hoping it was on Sunday. What time is it on Saturday, does anyone know?

 

[ChristineR]

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Dang! $175 a month?
Room, board, vet bills, mucking and training all for $175 a month?
I boarded horses in 1968, got a stall, a paddock & fed alfalfa 2X a day.
That was it. all for $150 a month, in 1968 !!!!!!!
No training, no vet services..I had to muck or it didn't get done.
You are far too kind to the guy, vacate him!

Uh, that's what I was thinking. Last year I paid $350 per month just for full board. That definitely didn't include any sort of extra help with anything. All care was up to me. You are going way too easy on this guy. For $175 per month, all I would get is outdoor self-care board with nothing included but the space.

 

[ChristineR]

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The show schedule is In the catalog.

page 24

Thanks. I saw that, but didn't realize that was the schedule. So you really can't tell what order the different birds/classes will be judged in or does it all happen at once?

Sorry, I am totally ignorant when it comes to this. I was expecting to see something like a class list in a horse show.

 

[ChristineR]

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The show schedule is In the catalog.

page 24

Thanks. I saw that, but didn't realize that was the schedule. So you really can't tell what order the different birds/classes will be judged in or does it all happen at once?

Sorry, I am totally ignorant when it comes to this. I was expecting to see something like a class list in a horse show.

Nevermind, I just wasn't looking in the right column. It looks like the Serama TT judging starts at 1:00 on Saturday...? Hmmm, I didn't realize that everything was over so soon Sunday. I'll have to see if I can get down there on Saturday. I won't be able to bring my daughter that day, though. Bummer.

 

[4cats3kids1hubby2many]

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hope ya get at least a few hatch.
So rumor has it you might make it to Stevenson too ?? That would be great. Sounds like there is going to be a pretty good size bunch of us. A cool thing about Stevenson is they have lots of tables and chairs set up that people can set at and just have coffee ( if ya drink the nasty stuff) and chat for a bit. I will have a booth with my metal work. Just getting it loaded and am not real happy. I don't have enough but just gonna go with the 80 or so things plus 5 bells I have. A lot of different things from last time and not enough chicken stuff.

Things are a mess I really shouldn't be going but I am commited so will just make the best of it.
HOPE TO SEE YA (all) there.

I will know by noon tomorow if I get to come down or not. DH had planned on going camping with his brother. Someone needs to be here to take care of critters and to pick up kid after football...so I may or may not. I am kind of thinking I will not get to...but I am trying.

 

[4cats3kids1hubby2many]

I am so incredibly bummed. Today is day 20 and nothing. I got nothing happening. There are 6 serama eggs and 12 orp eggs. I don't know what the heck happened. Everything was going so good. I am tempted to open it up and recandle to look. I want to know what is happening. I have a stethoscope and would love to see if I could hear anything.

I threw a towel over the brinsea ...it says it is holding its heat, but my house is on the chilly side. When we are not here we keep it around 65. I actually wonder if a kid accidentally unplugged it and did not bother to tell me. But I don't remember the alarm being on....I just don't know. What could I have done wrong?

Okay, I was playing with it a bit....I turned the incubator every 24 to 48 hours....it rocks back and forth...I just turned it around so N was pointing S and visa versa. Don't ask me why. Just experimenting with it. I never touched the eggs. I was gentle .... I just slid it around on the counter - no one was jostled.

I have gone back to my calendar probably 5x to make sure I counted right.

I am going to leave them in there over the weekend...but I am so bummed. I think I did something wrong somewhere.

Oh, and I placed 2 different kitchen thermometers in there to check the heat. They both registered right around the same as what is on the top of the Brinsea.