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[Rare Feathers Farm]

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That was me. PUD here mailed us a note about it. We have a scheduled power outage on the 7th of November.

Normally we do, but this one is 7 hours long, which is stalling my plans for setting some eggs to hatch. . .

Ours was scheduled for 4 hours but ended up taking 5 hours and 43 minutes. I have 7 bantam faverolle eggs in my 'bator now (due next week)...and I was pacing for a few hours that night. Normally, I would take them to work (down in town) but I had a co-worker complain and I'm no longer "allowed" to bring them in.

 

[Chickielady]

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Geeze I am not either !
Just helping like everyone else here would do !!!
Wish I could get over there and share meds with you !
Call Rarefeathers or Pips&peeps on your side of the hill ?
Good night, hope I can always help~~

Happy Halloween !
I am anxious for day light savings to end...I get up at 8 AM and it is pitch dark...and my birds coops lights come on at 5:30...so they want out and here I am loafing...I need a coop light on me !!!!!!!!!!!!

Gotta put Mr Chickieman to bed

and me too...he is going to NorCal on Friday...so I will be here all alone to bother you all...all day long!
Actually I have to finish a coop...but nighty night for now, and wish all great hatches, mine is not due for 2 weeks....

 

[Illia]

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Just about all my non-hatchery birds that are 6 months and older have gone through a nonscheduled power outage, but luckily nothing beyond 2 hours. What do you usually do in these instances? We take a couple really thick blankets and pile them over the bators.

 

[fdnick]

We moved to Spokane 11 years ago and have NEVER had a scheduled power outage.. what the heck are they for? upgrading? I think they transfer us to a different grid for the maintenance here.. (I THINK).. lol not sure just know we have never ahd a scheduled outage before

 

[Rare Feathers Farm]

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Just about all my non-hatchery birds that are 6 months and older have gone through a nonscheduled power outage, but luckily nothing beyond 2 hours. What do you usually do in these instances? We take a couple really thick blankets and pile them over the bators.

Well, I usually take them to work the day before but this time I got up and sat in front of the incubator and watched it drop down to 70 degrees...then I took the plugs out because without the fan, the humidity spiked to 85%! Then I ended up taking them out of the 'bator and holding them in my arms to keep them warm!

Boy, by the time the power came back on at 5:43am I was exhausted! I usually get up at 6am anyway but I'm not used to trying to rest in a chair with 8 eggs (I did end up losing one, though)...it took the incubator about 25 minutes to get back to the right temp but the humidity was a little high so I left the plugs out and put the eggs in right before I left for work, about 6:40am.

In the past, I've also been lucky enough to have a broody at the time so I go out & slip them underneath (making sure they're marked so I can put them back in the bator later, though). Oddly enough, I do have a broody right now--she's like 3 years old and NEVER been broody before but all of the sudden, she is determined. It's one of my MFC's and she's SERIOUS! She's TINY, tiny--though and sitting on four eggs already...so I didn't think she'd have room for any more eggs under her.

 

[Chickielady]

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That was me. PUD here mailed us a note about it. We have a scheduled power outage on the 7th of November.

Normally we do, but this one is 7 hours long, which is stalling my plans for setting some eggs to hatch. . .

So PUD tells you by mail ?
We have gotten no notice, so are we safe ?
7 hours ????????????????? In winter ???????? What is their excuse for that ??????????
Holy Moly...I am off to bed~~

 

[Rare Feathers Farm]

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That was me. PUD here mailed us a note about it. We have a scheduled power outage on the 7th of November.

Normally we do, but this one is 7 hours long, which is stalling my plans for setting some eggs to hatch. . .

So PUD tells you by mail ?
We have gotten no notice, so are we safe ?

They had a bunch of radio announcements here.

And this blurb:

http://www.okanoganpud.org/outage102910.pdf

 

[fdnick]

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Just about all my non-hatchery birds that are 6 months and older have gone through a nonscheduled power outage, but luckily nothing beyond 2 hours. What do you usually do in these instances? We take a couple really thick blankets and pile them over the bators.

Well, I usually take them to work the day before but this time I got up and sat in front of the incubator and watched it drop down to 70 degrees...then I took the plugs out because without the fan, the humidity spiked to 85%! Then I ended up taking them out of the 'bator and holding them in my arms to keep them warm!

Boy, by the time the power came back on at 5:43am I was exhausted! I usually get up at 6am anyway but I'm not used to trying to rest in a chair with 8 eggs (I did end up losing one, though)...it took the incubator about 25 minutes to get back to the right temp but the humidity was a little high so I left the plugs out and put the eggs in right before I left for work, about 6:40am.

In the past, I've also been lucky enough to have a broody at the time so I go out & slip them underneath (making sure they're marked so I can put them back in the bator later, though). Oddly enough, I do have a broody right now--she's like 3 years old and NEVER been broody before but all of the sudden, she is determined. It's one of my MFC's and she's SERIOUS! She's TINY, tiny--though and sitting on four eggs already...so I didn't think she'd have room for any more eggs under her.

Why would your co-workers care if you brought eggs into work.. or even an incubator for that matter?

 

[Rare Feathers Farm]

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Well, I usually take them to work the day before but this time I got up and sat in front of the incubator and watched it drop down to 70 degrees...then I took the plugs out because without the fan, the humidity spiked to 85%! Then I ended up taking them out of the 'bator and holding them in my arms to keep them warm!

Boy, by the time the power came back on at 5:43am I was exhausted! I usually get up at 6am anyway but I'm not used to trying to rest in a chair with 8 eggs (I did end up losing one, though)...it took the incubator about 25 minutes to get back to the right temp but the humidity was a little high so I left the plugs out and put the eggs in right before I left for work, about 6:40am.

In the past, I've also been lucky enough to have a broody at the time so I go out & slip them underneath (making sure they're marked so I can put them back in the bator later, though). Oddly enough, I do have a broody right now--she's like 3 years old and NEVER been broody before but all of the sudden, she is determined. It's one of my MFC's and she's SERIOUS! She's TINY, tiny--though and sitting on four eggs already...so I didn't think she'd have room for any more eggs under her.

Why would your co-workers care if you brought eggs into work.. or even an incubator for that matter?

Because she's a BROAD! LOL I work for the county and she was complaining I was using "tax dollars" to run my incubator. I swear it was there one day--and my argument was that I pay taxes, too!

She complains about everything I do, say, wear, etc. Can you tell it's annoying? Anyway...the FAN bothered her...the clicking of turner--I can't even listen to my radio because it "drives her nuts." LOL

 

[TrystInn]

For those who weren't able to see the documentary on PBS tonight, its available on YouTube! Here's the first installment: