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[Rare Feathers Farm]

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Hey! Nope--not yet. I am guessing soon...it's pouring rain right now and we have a fire going in the woodstove...ready for the 4 hour power outage we're getting tonight--with 8 bantam favs in the 'bator on week 2! ARRGHH

Is there a schedule outage for your area tonight? Is this going to mess with your 'bator? I hope you are able to work around it. I am so sorry for this. I know that the snow level is down to around 3-4,000 feet isn't it? 4,000 would be the top of the Loup. I pray all your eggs do well. I am sorry for this outage. Seems to me a 4-hour sheduled outage at the end of October is pretty stupid. We almost ALWAYS get snow on Halloween - well that is for the higher elevations and that was our theroy in the Methow....but it is cold out, why would they do this?

Yeah...and it ended up lasting 5 hours and 43 minutes. My incubator got down to 70 degrees and the humidity spiked to 85%!!! I ended up taking the eggs out and just leaving them on the counter (where we were maintaining 75 degrees....I put them back in at 6am this morning after taking the plugs out and letting it run for about 15 minutes....I am doubtful they'll hatch and Tuesday would be lockdown for them...

 

[Rainwolf]

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Some joe in skagit area introduced them in the 30's cuz he liked hunting them. same with the raccoon and a different joebob.
Sigh.. now we can't get rid of them.
They were introduced in Kansas too, I believe but they were able to get rid of them I think.

 

[Chickielady]

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Is there a schedule outage for your area tonight? Is this going to mess with your 'bator? I hope you are able to work around it. I am so sorry for this. I know that the snow level is down to around 3-4,000 feet isn't it? 4,000 would be the top of the Loup. I pray all your eggs do well. I am sorry for this outage. Seems to me a 4-hour sheduled outage at the end of October is pretty stupid. We almost ALWAYS get snow on Halloween - well that is for the higher elevations and that was our theroy in the Methow....but it is cold out, why would they do this?

Yeah...and it ended up lasting 5 hours and 43 minutes. My incubator got down to 70 degrees and the humidity spiked to 85%!!! I ended up taking the eggs out and just leaving them on the counter (where we were maintaining 75 degrees....I put them back in at 6am this morning after taking the plugs out and letting it run for about 15 minutes....I am doubtful they'll hatch and Tuesday would be lockdown for them...

I think they will be just fine.
I almost murdered a couple dozen one time with a bad hygrometer that said it was 50 % humidity when it was 80.
And so it went on...3 hatched, all elase were fully mature and failed to pip.
So you are being much nicer to your babies than I was...why are you having "scheduled power outages" ??

 

[Chickielady]

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Some joe in skagit area introduced them in the 30's cuz he liked hunting them. same with the raccoon and a different joebob.
Sigh.. now we can't get rid of them.
They were introduced in Kansas too, I believe but they were able to get rid of them I think.

they are thick here, and not indemic ?

 

[Chickielady]

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No, it is like the fourth ingredient

 

[Rainwolf]

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Some joe in skagit area introduced them in the 30's cuz he liked hunting them. same with the raccoon and a different joebob.
Sigh.. now we can't get rid of them.
They were introduced in Kansas too, I believe but they were able to get rid of them I think.

they are thick here, and not indemic ?

Opossums were native to Virgina area not sure about the coons

 

[Chickielady]

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yehbutt...the Brahma LF is a big big girl...and has fully feathered shanks and toes.
A muddy mess in the rainy muddy...and a pea comb to boot, but yes the 'columbian ' coloration is alot alike.
Your girls are awful pretty...

 

[fdnick]

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No, it is like the fourth ingredient

I guess i am horrible, i have never even looked at what is in my chicken food... we get it from aslin finch a local mill and have never paid attention

on a fun note looks like I am headed to Cle Elum next week a lady has a copper blue maran roo

been looking for one of those

 

[fdnick]

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yehbutt...the Brahma LF is a big big girl...and has fully feathered shaks and toes.
A muddy mess in the rainy muddy...and a pea comb to boot, but yes the 'columbian ' coloratio is alot alike.
Your girls are awful pretty...

Thanks Got them to be our broodys if the bator is not running...

 

[ByN8ureHomstead]

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Is there a schedule outage for your area tonight? Is this going to mess with your 'bator? I hope you are able to work around it. I am so sorry for this. I know that the snow level is down to around 3-4,000 feet isn't it? 4,000 would be the top of the Loup. I pray all your eggs do well. I am sorry for this outage. Seems to me a 4-hour sheduled outage at the end of October is pretty stupid. We almost ALWAYS get snow on Halloween - well that is for the higher elevations and that was our theroy in the Methow....but it is cold out, why would they do this?

Yeah...and it ended up lasting 5 hours and 43 minutes. My incubator got down to 70 degrees and the humidity spiked to 85%!!! I ended up taking the eggs out and just leaving them on the counter (where we were maintaining 75 degrees....I put them back in at 6am this morning after taking the plugs out and letting it run for about 15 minutes....I am doubtful they'll hatch and Tuesday would be lockdown for them...

Don't give up on them. My 4 year son turned the dial on my bator and the temp was around 70 for I don't know how long, the eggs were cold. 1 1/2 later I was surprised how many hatched out.