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[Breshcandra]

This is going to be picture heavey!

These are the baby silkie chicks:




There is one white, two black with white feather tips, two light grey and one dark grey!

Next are the new girls I just picked up:



I thought I was getting a rumpless Araucana but she was the normal brown, even though the rumpless thing is cute I wanted a bit more unique to me! So here they are, they are so very perrrrrrtyyyy!

You have some cute babies there =) and your hens look great.

 

[Sudsy Chick]

Has anyone ever used a heat lamp as an improvised incubator?

You could come get your old incubator from my house! I'll be home at 5:30.

 

[Chickielady]

I would think it may be challenging to get the right temp and humidity.

OK and this looks like a good time to make my heat lamp speech. Mostly for new peeps.

NEVER NEVER EVER put a heat lamp in anything but a porcelain fixture. The fixture should have a sticker that says MAX bulb/lamp size. If you put a heat lamp in one of the cheap clamp on fixtures, you are playing with fire LITERALLY !! See the cheap fixtures can't take the heat. Thus the risk of fire.

I know some of you are probably tired of seeing me post about this. Well Since my friend / feed supplier lost their entire barn, Feed business and all their breeding hogs due fire that as near as we could tell was related to a heat lamp. I am on a mission. I will continue to spread the word. If I can save even one person from suffering what I saw my friend go through I will have succeeded.

 

[Breshcandra]

Has anyone ever used a heat lamp as an improvised incubator?

You can get the right temp using one but Its really hard to get the humidity up.

 

[Chickielady]

Who was it here making soaps & lotions ?

Check this recipe out, looks like a nice thick "lotion" bar kinda like the chapped hands type:



http://wellnessmama.com/4770/how-to-make-lotion-bars/


DH occasionally gets the cracks in finger tips...this looks like it would really help him.
Now he uses my Chap Stick !


OK I remember now it was Dawn !!!

 

[Chickielady]

darn this weather !
It is so cold !!!

CR :: Going dune busting soon ? Hopefully you get nice weather, it is cold, drizzly & dark out here on the coast !

RW:: Awesome Blues !!

OK now back to work for me !

 

[Farmin Momma]

Quote: OOoooo OOOOooo, I think you are right. I thought that is what I remembered the lady saying but I though of those white meat chickens and said to my self no that has to be wrong! Thank you for helping with that.

 

[Chickielady]

OOoooo OOOOooo, I think you are right. I thought that is what I remembered the lady saying but I though of those white meat chickens and said to my self no that has to be wrong! Thank you for helping with that.

The clues are comb/wattles, coloration/pattern and the fact that the bird is "hard feathered" meaning very little "fluff".
Dark Cornish sometimes have issues keeping warm in very cold climes as a result.
She should have very yellow shanks, also.

 

[Sudsy Chick]

Who was it here making soaps & lotions ?

Check this recipe out, looks like a nice thick "lotion" bar kinda like the chapped hands type:



http://wellnessmama.com/4770/how-to-make-lotion-bars/


DH occasionally gets the cracks in finger tips...this looks like it would really help him.
Now he uses my Chap Stick !


OK I remember now it was Dawn !!!

Yep - it's me =) I make lotion bars a lot like those.

I also have some liquid soap to get to you - it turned out very nice! I just have no idea how to mail it =) Hopefully you're coming up to Ron's BBQ!

 

[Chicken Rustler]

Who was it here making soaps & lotions ?

Check this recipe out, looks like a nice thick "lotion" bar kinda like the chapped hands type:



http://wellnessmama.com/4770/how-to-make-lotion-bars/


DH occasionally gets the cracks in finger tips...this looks like it would really help him.
Now he uses my Chap Stick !


OK I remember now it was Dawn !!!

USE BAG BALM ! ! ! Rub it in at bed time. Works great. There is a reason that stuff has been around so long. BECAUSE IT"S THAT GOOD