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[BarnChick]

any body want to start worms? Good ones, really. for composting

http://moseslake.craigslist.org/grd/2385362128.html

 

[Stumpfarmer]

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Well, there's rabies, for one thing.

I have little bats living here, year round, that swoop down in front of my kitchen window all night for bugs.
Even in snowy cold, they are there every eve.
They must live in the old snag trees out here in the 100 acre wood.
So far, I have not gotten rabies !

Little Brown Bats, probably, and yeah, they're busy all winter near the coast.

There's been a couple of bad rabies scares in Thurston County, including one memorable summer when Gary Locke's whole family had to get the injections. I like bats as a general thing, in the same way I really like and admire garter snakes: I used to be phobic about them, but have rationalized my way to an intellectual appreciation coupled with caution.

Which I think describes the Hamburgs (aka the Roches) position on me, the cows, and slowly but surely the dogs: they've figured out we're no threat, and that I feed them, and don't go zooming into the air at first sight of us. The cattle are fascinated by them and/or jealous that they get grain, but are two fence layers plus a steel pipe gate (the one which closes the orchard off when we're using it as a catch pen spends 99.9% of its time chained back to the pasture mesh) from getting in and eating their feed. The Hamburgs freaked the first time a giant cow nose came close but now ignore the heck out of them.

I need to go finish emptying the coop of random tools, fasteners, and boards that we stuck in there out of the rain on Sunday so I can get it painted. Excelsior! again.

 

[pettec63]

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perfect thank you!! BF was freaking at the price he saw, but I'm not sure what type he was looking at?? So I can keep that in mind! Thanks so much!!!

 

[pettec63]

ok so I candled added water, not too hot and my temp is staying at 97.5??? it's been three hours??? I haven't touched the temp gauge and the humidity is just now reaching 50%?? I stuck a sponge in there thinking it would hold the water in?? do I turn up the gauge just a little??

 

[TheReidHomestead]

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Are you only using the Brinsea thermometer, or do you have additional thermometers in there? I am like Chickielady and usually have at least 3 different thermometers and 2 hygrometers in each of my incubators and they all read slightly differently, so I try and get an average on them. I don't acutally hatch in my Brinsea, I have an old LG bator I use as a hatcher. How long has the temp been that low? If it's been a couple hours I'd turn it up a notch.

I have a pip in one of my Olive Eggers! I'm amazed, surprised and a little concerned it's so early! I'll keep you posted!

 

[4cats3kids1hubby2many]

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On the Brinsea Octagon 20, I understood that you fill both chambers with water and open the vent only 1/3 of the way to keep the humidity up, but still have enough ventilation. I think we need some other Brinsea users to chime in here.

I do believe that is what mine says too.

 

[pettec63]

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Are you only using the Brinsea thermometer, or do you have additional thermometers in there? I am like Chickielady and usually have at least 3 different thermometers and 2 hygrometers in each of my incubators and they all read slightly differently, so I try and get an average on them. I don't acutally hatch in my Brinsea, I have an old LG bator I use as a hatcher. How long has the temp been that low? If it's been a couple hours I'd turn it up a notch.

I have a pip in one of my Olive Eggers! I'm amazed, surprised and a little concerned it's so early! I'll keep you posted!

Cool about the pip, you know I went out and bought a fluker hygrometer/temp digital gauge, I just checked it again it was still reading like that, but, (I do have the Brinsea octo20) but the regular thermometer is reading a little over 100? So I pulled the digital which on know I'm not supposed to do!! ooops! Now I'm not going to know my humidity!!

I turned the digital off when I pulled it out, don't know if I should wait an hour or two and put it back or just leave it with my

crossed???

 

[pettec63]

temps been that way for a few hours

 

[4cats3kids1hubby2many]

Where was I when Mt. Saint Hellen's blew:

I was on my 8th grade class trip. We had taken busses over to "the coast", I do not remember the town where we stayed. We stayed in the gym in our sleeping bags. We were the last vehicle to come across Snoqualmie pass, as the closed it because it was so hard to see. We stopped in Cle Elum and we all got out and I remember some of us taking little bags of the ash/dust. Mr. Dave Johnson was our supervisor/teacher and I was terrified of him (sorry - just my memories - no one knows him but me).

 

[pettec63]

I wish I could like take a video and play it on here, hmm maybe I can... You guys would die laughing if you saw the way my chicks run helter skelter for their coop when I crow, i did it again a little bit ago!!!