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[hallerlake]

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I did pick up Rouge Cardinal and Rebecca for 50% and 40% off elsewhere this winter. Joy Creek has nice stuff.

Oh heck. If they have Niobe, I'd like one. Or maybe Gravety Beauty. It seems a shame to by something one can get anywhere at Joy Creek.

They should have Gravety Beauty. Niobe is of a period with your house, isn't it? It would be nice on the proposed bigger garage, it needs a good scrambling surface.

The Clematis cirrhosa "Balearica" that I thought had died is recovering from being turned inside-out; I need to prune the heck out of it and put it on the garden seat before much later; maybe tomorrow while I'm waiting for the paint on the inside of the chicken coop to dry, although I really need to attack the Ispahan rose so it won't ball; I've got about 3X the canes I need. I'm really looking forward to being able to free-range the chooks under the big roses to get the bedstraw and velvet grass down. Have to have a real coop for them instead of a no-door chicken tractor. I am seriously considering fencing off the narrow patio in front of the study window and keeping the hamburgs or banties of some sort there. I wonder what their relationship with Peonies would be?

I don't think I'd trust them with peonies. Maybe if you caged them (the peonies)?

 

[hallerlake]

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I did pick up Rouge Cardinal and Rebecca for 50% and 40% off elsewhere this winter. Joy Creek has nice stuff.

My DH is afraid for me to ask but where is that? I just adore clematis! Can't have to many of them. Last year I added a cedar arbor to the top of my fence in hopes that someday it will be covered. 2 Montana's would probably do it in a season. Polish Pride is gorgeous... almost luminescent!

Joy Creek does mail order.

 

[pettec63]

ok you guys!! all my hatching buddies!!

tomorrow's the day! it's finally here!! the 18th day, candle and lock down day!! I'm scert!!!

I'm sure if you could look in my house you will see me doing a chicken dance, the macarana and the hokie pokie !! praying I get at least one chick out of the deal!! lol!!!

BTW anyone see my post about the auctions ??

 

[hallerlake]

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Satan, get thee behind me!

Now, now, just trying to keep some reciprocity on the favors thing, y'know?

My /purpleJapaneseclematisstartswith"R"/ have died, both of them- the freeze/thaw/bread dormancy/drop to single digits thing was too much for it- Ruuguchi, that's the name! So I'm replacing them on the way to go photograph Iris in Salem/Silverton. And also going to Heirloom for red roses of some sort (Austin, prob). My doc asked me if I was digging out the roses now that I'm into chickens: silly man!

The C. tangutica you gave me is spouting. I was worried with the sudden, deep freeze so soon after planting it.

 

[hallerlake]

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I'm bumping this just to make sure everyone saw it.

 

[hallerlake]

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Good luck with hatch.

It can be so exciting and aggravating!

 

[pettec63]

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Good luck with hatch.

It can be so exciting and aggravating!

Thanks this is my first one and I got the eggs from TX!! so not sure what I'm looking at when I candle, so it will be interesting and I will do an eggtopsy on the ones that don't hatch.

 

[Stumpfarmer]

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They should have Gravety Beauty. Niobe is of a period with your house, isn't it? It would be nice on the proposed bigger garage, it needs a good scrambling surface.

The Clematis cirrhosa "Balearica" that I thought had died is recovering from being turned inside-out; I need to prune the heck out of it and put it on the garden seat before much later; maybe tomorrow while I'm waiting for the paint on the inside of the chicken coop to dry, although I really need to attack the Ispahan rose so it won't ball; I've got about 3X the canes I need. I'm really looking forward to being able to free-range the chooks under the big roses to get the bedstraw and velvet grass down. Have to have a real coop for them instead of a no-door chicken tractor. I am seriously considering fencing off the narrow patio in front of the study window and keeping the hamburgs or banties of some sort there. I wonder what their relationship with Peonies would be?

Niobe dates to 1975 or around there. Gravety Beauty would be period.

I always want the early pink star marked large flowered clematis to be Niobe. And I can't find my Clematis reference to come up with the real name (Brewster Rogerson made fun of me more than once for that mistake) (bad wiring, what can one do?).

 

[Stumpfarmer]

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They should have Gravety Beauty. Niobe is of a period with your house, isn't it? It would be nice on the proposed bigger garage, it needs a good scrambling surface.

The Clematis cirrhosa "Balearica" that I thought had died is recovering from being turned inside-out; I need to prune the heck out of it and put it on the garden seat before much later; maybe tomorrow while I'm waiting for the paint on the inside of the chicken coop to dry, although I really need to attack the Ispahan rose so it won't ball; I've got about 3X the canes I need. I'm really looking forward to being able to free-range the chooks under the big roses to get the bedstraw and velvet grass down. Have to have a real coop for them instead of a no-door chicken tractor. I am seriously considering fencing off the narrow patio in front of the study window and keeping the hamburgs or banties of some sort there. I wonder what their relationship with Peonies would be?

I don't think I'd trust them with peonies. Maybe if you caged them (the peonies)?

Yeah, I'm doing that with a lot of stuff anyway, to give it a head start on the weeds

. I suspect the early red shoots would be tasty to chickens.

 

[4cats3kids1hubby2many]

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Mine is a Brinsea, and it spikes too when the chicks hatch. They are wet and this adds to the humidity I am sure. But when I add water (before lockdown) the humidity tends to spike. When I add the water it is warm water from the tap. I am just afraid that during the time period when the humidity should be 40-45% and I add water and it spikes to 85% (or more) and would stay at this level if I did not open the lid...is this okay and it will eventually normalize itself? or should I continue to do my lid burping to get the humidity down - again, this is before lockdown and upping humidity.

I wonder...how long would it take for this to normalize on its own?
Maybe I should be adding water that is a bit cooler?
I think I will do a test and run the incubator empty and see what happens.

I will let you know.

If you add water that is warmer the 100F you will get a spike in humidity when added. If you add water that is 80-90F you will not get the humidity spike but the temp will drop just a tad til the water gets to be incubator temp.

there should be 2 "trays" for water... a small center one and a larger outer one. Normally the water is only put in the small one during main incubation, then put in both for lockdown. If my humidity got to 85% during regular incubation I'd "burp" it too. But I think the spikes are because your adding over 100F water. try adding water that is just cool to the touch. that should be about 80-90F.

Humidity will always spike when chick hatches. don't worry about that as long as the %'s were correct before hatching then all should be fine.

Thank you so much. I do think this is what has happened. I put "warm-to-the-touch" water in and I will bet it was 100 degrees (or more). Next hatch, little cooler water.