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[Chicken Rustler]

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Dat would not be me!!! I am 20 miles south and Broodytood is just N of me. Why whatcha got cookin ???

 

[Stumpfarmer]

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No, I'm setting up this morning, although I've had to take the egg tray out and sterilize it, as it got mold spots while I was stabilizing the temps over night.

Julia, I'd washed it once, too; I suspect the waste from egg hatching is REALLY persistant.

I think there may even be Youtube vids of folks using that Brinsea that show how all the pieces go together. Good to wash it again. I usually scrub it really well before I put it away but DH was hassling me about getting the thing out of his computer room (if you can imagine the gall of that man, wanting his office all to himself again) so I did a perfunctory cleaning as I always clean it again after I pull it out of the storage in the garage before using it again. So typically it's cleaned twice between uses, with a sterilizing solution cleaning after the soap and water wash.
What I like about the Brinsea is that temps stabilize pretty rapidly. 24 hours is the suggested duration, but when I had those eggs that had been dumped out of the broody's nest, they went into the incubator within the hour, which worked this time since 2 days later there were 4 chicks.

It was one transparent fleck of membrane which I'm not surprised you missed, after I'd washed it once with hot water and a brush and it came back when it was heated up in a humid atmosphere; I hadn't wanted to use bleach the first time but this time I did, with a Qtip, and then more hot water.

I'd really like to talk to whomever wrote the instructions and find out what deep-seated childhood trauma led them to get sidetracked into "why" when they're supposed to be writing about "how" though.

VERY long day here, not only set up the incubator but had the sheep tethered out in the shade, which was tricky to find, and had to do a long move with the chicken tractor, cut greens for the young fowl, and then pruned another huge chunk out of the over-grown Darlow's Enigma rose to feed to him in his pen. Oh, and nightgowns washed. Watered all the plants in pots, fed and watered all the chickens (some of them twice) and futzed around with a mess that Bacchus made with his horns the other day (not cleaned it up, but at least moved it out of the path- he caught a set of shelves full of scrap lumber and random tools with one of his horns and threw it all over).

 

[Stumpfarmer]

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The pictures include facts the manual never gets around to, including what the assembled unit with eggs should look like.

Anyway, the best thing was that having to scrub the tray slowed me down enough that Sylvia layed another egg, so I have 22 setting, with four of hers.

 

[Stumpfarmer]

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I'm about as far from Rochester as CR only north instead of south. Westside Oly and Tumwater are a little closer, but it's only close to Grand Mound and Oakville.

 

[pongoid]

Please don't kill snakes. They are so cool. Especially in Washington, you have some real pretty ones. Illinois and Wisconsin get to darn cold and we have very few and they are boring and ugly.

South Dakota has some interesting ones but alot of big rattlers.

 

[Ogress]

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I like snakes

 

[Sudsy Chick]

Hi everyone

I was the kid that would go hunting for gartner snakes for fun! Of course - we're very lucky in this area that there are no poisonous snakes (on the west side anyway).

I bought mealworms at the pet storetoday to see what would happen; and the chicks adored them! They actually took them from me and not just mama! Nice trick for chicks from broody mamas!

Of course all my other chickens always turn into little devils whenever the mealworms come out. They will jump over everyone and everything to get to them and act like my hands turn into little mealworms and even had chicks pecking on my toes and jumping up in the air. So cute!

Hope you all had a good day! dawn

 

[PitterPatterPalace]

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Dat would not be me!!! I am 20 miles south and Broodytood is just N of me. Why whatcha got cookin ???

Yes, a completely leaded question. There's a truck down there that we are interested in looking at/getting - but may be hoping if someone were closer to help us out & take a peek at it & test drive. It's a long way to travel for pregnant ol' me when it may just be a crap shoot.
I'll email you, broody, & stumpy in the more decent AM hours.

 

[Chicken Rustler]

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Dat would not be me!!! I am 20 miles south and Broodytood is just N of me. Why whatcha got cookin ???

Yes, a completely leaded question. There's a truck down there that we are interested in looking at/getting - but may be hoping if someone were closer to help us out & take a peek at it & test drive. It's a long way to travel for pregnant ol' me when it may just be a crap shoot.
I'll email you, broody, & stumpy in the more decent AM hours.

I will tell ya that for at least the next 3-4 days I will have no tme to spare to help you.

See this is the weekend I am setting up at one of the 8 wineries on the tour. Speaking of IF anybody is so inclined to like wine (

) this is a 2 day thing. You can find more info by going to www.wellswinery.com That is the one I will be at. And next weekend Oct 1 I will be at Onalaska for Apple Harvest Festival.

 

[Chicken Rustler]

Today is not looking to be so good. Went to bed last night at 10 woke up at 12 with killer gut ache and leg cramps. Took stomach rescue but it's not working this time.

It gets better on top of all this IT'S RAINING

DANG IT JIM !!!!!