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[Kaneke]

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Let me know how the snake rock works out.

They seem to be OK with it- I wouldn't use this size for more than seven chicks, though. I'm going to go look at panel heater's before the big incubator is due on Friday. And I'll have toget some larger space cleared, predator proofed, and weatherized pretty soon, too

I could drop my ceramic panel by, Monday or Tuesday when I take stuff over to DS -- your reading glasses too and anything you need me to bring from around here

 

[Kaneke]

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Where did you get this at? I need a little extra warmth for my seramas in their coop.

actually I got my ceramic panel at the second hand store, years ago -- used it for its stated use, when I was working at my desk down in the basement, which stays at about 55* year round since the building inspector messed up our plans for the basement to be the plenum for an active solar heat system -- grrr

but Google up ... ceramic desk heaters or some similar set of words ... they're slightly pricier than EcoGlows, use a bit more electricity, but they are considerably larger (about 2' x 2-1/2 ')

here's a place to start: mine was about $125 new retail ... but looks like you might get something similar for less

http://www.heater-store.com/heating_mats_office_heaters_60_ctg.htm

 

[4cats3kids1hubby2many]

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Where did you get this at? I need a little extra warmth for my seramas in their coop.

actually I got my ceramic panel at the second hand store, years ago -- used it for its stated use, when I was working at my desk down in the basement, which stays at about 55* year round since the building inspector messed up our plans for the basement to be the plenum for an active solar heat system -- grrr

but Google up ... ceramic desk heaters or some similar set of words ... they're slightly pricier than EcoGlows, use a bit more electricity, but they are considerably larger (about 2' x 2-1/2 ')

here's a place to start: mine was about $125 new retail ... but looks like you might get something similar for less

http://www.heater-store.com/heating_mats_office_heaters_60_ctg.htm

Thank you so much.

 

[Kaneke]

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I didn't mark the hen's name on all the eggs,\\; since I don't have a webcam in the nest box, I can't always tell for certain which egg was from which hen (I usually get out to collect only a couple times a day, not every time I hear an egg song .. at times there are as many as THREE of them in the nest box at once)

if I look at four or five eggs from the same day, I can often tell -- Christina lays by far the largest egg (as long as someone else isn't laying a double-yolker, which happens every few days around here) -- Phoebe's eggs are definitely more pointed on the ends, while Anitra's tend to be middle-sized but much rounder .. the color varies a bit, depending on how much "brown" coloration they coat it with, each time ... all three lay basically pale blue eggs with varied amounts of brown-coat, so they come out somewhat green ... from aqua to mint to mossy

much easier to tell with Ginger (pink/salmon -- really a white egg with a very light brown coat), Becky (dark olive drab -- a bluer egg with a more intense brown coat), and Deirdre (definitely pale blue, with little to no coating, so it looks turquoise-to-aqua)

I'm sure Roopert is carrying at least one blue-egg gene, since he had the definite pea-comb-with-three-rows as a young cockerel -- now he has this floppy thing for a comb ... looks worse than it did since I had to swat him with a PVC pole when he was attacking me one time .. was aiming for his underside but he ducked ...

will be interesting also to see what color eggs these chicks lay when they get to be POL pullets ... and with Roopert's genes, any cockerels should grow up to be nice yard art ...

 

[Stumpfarmer]

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I love the cute picture!

And how adorable that your daughter is so involved! My son loves being with our chickens too, but our daughter just thinks of them as poop generators LOL

The total hatch took a full two days for our seven chicks. The difference in size between the first and last was incredible the first few days. Are they all the brown & black 'camo' look so far? Or do you have any silver? So exciting!

My daughter is 23, and an actual grownup in many ways but when it come to anything small, cute, and fuzzy she's four.

Five chicks, two unpipped eggs- the smallest of Kaneke's and Sylvia's. The last two chicks are very light and very dark.

And I am not awake yet, nor fed, so I need to go get my breakfast.

 

[Stumpfarmer]

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They seem to be OK with it- I wouldn't use this size for more than seven chicks, though. I'm going to go look at panel heater's before the big incubator is due on Friday. And I'll have toget some larger space cleared, predator proofed, and weatherized pretty soon, too

I could drop my ceramic panel by, Monday or Tuesday when I take stuff over to DS -- your reading glasses too and anything you need me to bring from around here

That would be lovely. Call me from the bottom of the driveway and I'll walk down to get the stuff.

And remind me: I'm unfed, un medicated, and there's chickies tweeting.

They do seem to like their rock, they're perched on it like cormorants on Haystack Rock.

 

[Stumpfarmer]

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Where did you get this at? I need a little extra warmth for my seramas in their coop.

actually I got my ceramic panel at the second hand store, years ago -- used it for its stated use, when I was working at my desk down in the basement, which stays at about 55* year round since the building inspector messed up our plans for the basement to be the plenum for an active solar heat system -- grrr

but Google up ... ceramic desk heaters or some similar set of words ... they're slightly pricier than EcoGlows, use a bit more electricity, but they are considerably larger (about 2' x 2-1/2 ')

here's a place to start: mine was about $125 new retail ... but looks like you might get something similar for less

http://www.heater-store.com/heating_mats_office_heaters_60_ctg.htm

Amazon has a huge number of choices, and somewhat lower prices; I'm going to check CL and also Costco.

I heat the house with oil-filled radiant heaters; our electical bill went down 50% when I turned off the forced air heat. If I had a bit more flexibility in where I could plug those in (I can only have one per circuit) I'd put the chicks under one of them the way Grandma used to brood orphans (and turkey poults when the bantie couldn't keep them warm due to cold weather and size discrepency) under the kitchen stove.

 

[hallerlake]

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Where did you get this at? I need a little extra warmth for my seramas in their coop.

actually I got my ceramic panel at the second hand store, years ago -- used it for its stated use, when I was working at my desk down in the basement, which stays at about 55* year round since the building inspector messed up our plans for the basement to be the plenum for an active solar heat system -- grrr

but Google up ... ceramic desk heaters or some similar set of words ... they're slightly pricier than EcoGlows, use a bit more electricity, but they are considerably larger (about 2' x 2-1/2 ')

here's a place to start: mine was about $125 new retail ... but looks like you might get something similar for less

http://www.heater-store.com/heating_mats_office_heaters_60_ctg.htm

Brinsea has the eco glows on sale at their site. if you buy before the 16th I have a code for an additional 10% off. FBOS1011

 

[hallerlake]

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I love the cute picture!

And how adorable that your daughter is so involved! My son loves being with our chickens too, but our daughter just thinks of them as poop generators LOL

The total hatch took a full two days for our seven chicks. The difference in size between the first and last was incredible the first few days. Are they all the brown & black 'camo' look so far? Or do you have any silver? So exciting!

My daughter is 23, and an actual grownup in many ways but when it come to anything small, cure, and fuzzy she's four.

Five chicks, two unpipped eggs- the smallest of Kaneke's and Sylvia's. The last two chicks are very light and very dark.

And I am not awake yet, nor fed, so I need to go get my breakfast.

Sounds like my younger son.

 

[Chickielady]

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LOL...had a white hen long ago who had so much dark around her eyes like smudged eye liner, we named her Tammy Faye!!