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[Chicken Rustler]

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My thought about the light at night is that since chickens have near zero visibility at night I didn't want them milling around and then boom boom out go the lights and they cant see to roost.

 

[LaSombra]

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My thought about the light at night is that since chickens have near zero visibility at night I didn't want them milling around and then boom boom out go the lights and they cant see to roost.

mine seem to do OK, though... They start roosting before that light goes out. They roost according to the sunlight, really... I think it's nice for them to have the light on for a little bit, anyway...

 

[ByN8ureHomstead]

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My thought about the light at night is that since chickens have near zero visibility at night I didn't want them milling around and then boom boom out go the lights and they cant see to roost.

I use some solar powered led Christmas lights in my coop. I do leave a low watt light on in the coop. My coop has no windows so even in the day it is very dark in there.

 

[Chickielady]

If you put in supplemental light in your coops, it is best to add hours of light to the morning, so lights can come on and the birds wake up...but at night the light going off does leave them standing in the dark, or on the floor, etc.
So I have lights come on at 6:30 and off at 4 or 5...then the setting sun spurs them to roost while they can still see.
It is so dark so fast...

 

[Chickielady]

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That will be interesting !

 

[Chickielady]

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That's what we women need to know for sure that some guy actually has a crack ! DUHH!!!!
Have you seen these idiots try and run or walk with one hand holding their pants up ?

But not too far up, they still want you to see their underpants !

FI's

I do that run all the time! LOL But its to keep my pants UP! And on correctly! lol I need new clothes, lol Ive lost so much weight over the past year that all my clothes are 2-3 sizes to big.

Get zip ties and zip tie the belt loops together in back...that is what they are doing in some schools now.
And congrates on loosing so much weight !

 

[Chickielady]

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I agree Uff DA!!!!

I hate listen for him to breath again. I did my time with Kaitlyn. She couldn't cry very loud, and I knew that she could die in the middle of the night, so I was always listening for her. She slept beside our bed in a doll crib for at least 6 months. She was so good to me in the end. She waited until I was ready. I miss that kid.

So sorry sweetheart !

 

[Chickielady]

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If you shut it off next time, it may not start, as it may have too much water in the cylinders, and water cannot compress, so the engine will lock up, they call it "hydrolicked" as a leak of water into the cyliners that gets bad enough will fill the cyliners, and so when you start it up, the crank cannot compress water. Nothing can compress water.
The end=gine is designed to work by compressing air, and a cylinder with a raised round head is called a hemi cylinder, and all makes of vechicles have hemi heads, it is not indegenious to Chrysler.
My daughter's Car had a hemi head nd cylinder in it. (Z-28)
OK, I am off to cook dinner.......

Yep its done that to me also. Shut it off and 15 minutes later when I go to leave the barn, it wont start. But then a few minutes later it will...

If the truck is leaking coolant into the cylinders as DH said, then eventually so much coolant will leak in that cannnot be start, the starter will be unable to compress the water filling the cylinders, water cannot be compressed, ever.
So it will be unable to turn over, period, for ever. Dead. Locked up, "Hydraulicked" is the term used for an engine with blown head gaskets (or intake manifold gaskets) that has such a bad leak as to fill the cylinders with coolant.
It would never start again.
Has to then be towed and rebuilt.

 

[Chickielady]

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Yep I know. And thats why I am so baffled. lol I have had my truck gone over many times... Oils clean, radiator is clean, coolant resevour is clean, but always empty

, even if I filled it earlier. If you or your DH has any ideas I would greatly except them. lol I'm sick of my truck, its down right emberassing driving it at times... Because even after it warms up, if I shut it off, it blows white exaust when I start it up again...

Ive been told, "oh it just needs to be ran, its just sat to long." "take it for a long drive on the highway and open it up! Clear out all that carbon." Well I know its not a carbon build up, and the truck hasn't sat for more than 4 days without being started and warmed up.

DH agreed with everyone that it is a blown head gasket, and says that the engine is toasted.

It is not totally toasted, it can be rebuilt, it is not that hard to rebuild the top end...need a good set of American sockets and wrenches, a scrapper-putty knife, lots of coffee cans to put nuts and bolts in to save them...and hope the heads are not warped, slap on new gaskets and bolt it back together.
Usually, if there is alot of miles on it, you may want to go ahead and have the heads 'done'...a valve job, new springs etc.
And maybe rebuild the carb too.
A V-8 Chevy is a beautiful thing!

 

[Chickielady]

OK Illia, remember I told you that the "Purebred" Blue Ameraucanas I got (all those blue chicks I posted photos of under the Brahma broody) they are beautiful birds, but appear to be laying light green eggs with brown specles, they are awesome colored eggs, kind of a light turquoise color,(with tiny brown speckles) I like it...none the less, I paid top $ for purebred blue Ams, and I have been bamboozled with OEs!!!!!!!!
Oh well, it is just for my egg basket, not for breeding and selling.

Next time I get one of those colored eggs I will snap a photo of it.
And CR: The crows will lay soon, they are broody babies as shown, and broody babies can be a bit more wild and self preservating than incubator raised chicks.
Well, off to get some work and shopping done.